What are the medicinal values ​​of tangerine peel?

Many people may find tangerine peel unfamiliar, but tangerine peel has the effect of eliminating phlegm and relieving gas. Tangerine peel is also known as Yunpi and Yunhong, which is the orange peel in our lives. It has many effects. Many people will wear orange peels on their bodies as a way to prevent and treat diseases. Tangerine peel has many therapeutic effects. If you have a cough and are infected with a cold, you can choose tangerine peel to treat the disease. You may find that the disease that has lasted for a long time has been alleviated because of eating tangerine peel.

Tangerine peel is the dried outer peel of the Rutaceae plant Huazhou orange or tangerine and its cultivated varieties. Other names: Yunpi and Yunhong. It has the effects of dispelling cold, drying dampness, promoting qi and eliminating phlegm. It is used for cough due to wind-cold, itchy throat with excessive phlegm, food stagnation and alcohol damage, vomiting, nausea and fullness in the body.

"Compendium of Materia Medica": Tangerine peel "leaves the white part in medicines for harmonizing the stomach, but removes the white part in medicines for relieving gas and eliminating phlegm"; "Tangerine peel is better than tangerine peel in warming and drying properties, and can also dispel exterior cold, so it is suitable for people with exogenous wind-cold, cough and excessive phlegm." Huajuhong has a non-dispersing nature and can help digestion. It is more suitable for people with cough, phlegm, food accumulation or indigestion.

Tangerine peel, tangerine peel and tangerine peel are three different traditional Chinese medicines included in the 2000 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia.

Tangerine peel and tangerine peel both come from the Rutaceae plant citrus and its cultivated varieties. Because the two are processed differently, they are divided into dried tangerine peel and dried tangerine peel. Tangerines are picked when they are ripe, the peel is peeled off and dried in the shade to be called tangerine peel or orange peel. Tangerines are picked when they are ripe, the peel is removed, the white part inside the peel is removed, and then dried in the sun to produce tangerine peel. The orange peel with the white part removed and the red part remaining is called orange peel.

Alias: Yunpi, Yunhongjuhong's functions and effects

Nature and flavor: pungent, bitter, warm. It enters the lung and spleen meridians.

Efficacy: dispel cold, dry dampness, promote qi and eliminate phlegm.

Indications: Used for wind-cold cough, itchy throat with excessive phlegm, food stagnation and alcohol damage, vomiting, nausea and fullness in the body.

Dosage and administration: 3 to 9 grams.

The role of orange peel:

Tangerine peel can nourish the body, regulate qi, strengthen the spleen, help digestion, dry out dampness, sober up, eliminate greasiness, relieve fullness, and detoxify crabs. Indications: It has unique therapeutic effects on resolving phlegm and relieving cough, wind-cold cough, chronic bronchitis, asthma, itchy throat with excessive phlegm, phlegm stagnation in the chest, vomiting and hiccups, food stagnation, food stagnation and alcohol damage, nausea and stuffy feeling, long-term stomach pain, and gas pain.

1. Tangerine peel can treat breast abscess, which can dissolve it before it forms and burst it after it forms, and is extremely painful and unbearable: Dried tangerine peel (soak in water to remove the white part, dry in the sun, and fry until the surface turns yellow) is ground into powder, and musk is ground, and taken with wine, 2 qian. (Juxiang powder from Shenghuifang)

2. Tangerine peel treats noisy vomiting: Grind real tangerine peel (remove the white part) into powder, put 5 fen of it on the palm of your hand at 5 o'clock in the morning, lick it, and then go to sleep. (Strange Evidence and Prescriptions)

3. Tangerine peel treats numbness caused by wind and phlegm: one pound of tangerine peel, five bowls of countercurrent water, boil until it is soft, remove the dregs, and then boil until one bowl of water remains. Take it all at once to induce vomiting. Do not spit out the guadi powder. (From "Zhai Yuan Fang")

4. Tangerine peel can treat phlegm and fluid, vomiting, dizziness, palpitations, or discomfort in the middle abdomen. Or it may present with chills and fever, or due to eating raw or cold food, causing disharmony of the spleen and stomach: 5 liang each of Pinellia ternata (washed seven times with decoction), Tangerine peel, 3 liang each of White Poria cocos, and 1.5 liang of Licorice (roasted). Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, take 4 qian of it each time, add 1 cup of water, 7 slices of ginger and 1 black plum, boil them together for 6 minutes, remove the residue and take it while hot at any time. (Erchen Decoction from the Bureau of Prescriptions)

5. Tangerine peel is used to treat postpartum bad temper and urinary obstruction: Grind tangerine peel into powder, take 2 qian each time, on an empty stomach, with warm wine. (Good Prescriptions for Women)

6. Tangerine peel treats heartache during the journey: Tangerine peel (remove the white part), boil it and drink it, it is very effective. (Tan Ye Weng's Experimental Prescriptions)

Contraindications of using tangerine peel:

Tangerine peel is specifically used to treat lung cold, cough and phlegm. It is often used in prescriptions for deficiency and deficiency. However, it is not suitable for long-term cough and loose breath.

I hope the above can provide you with reference. Knowing what orange peel is can help you make better use of it. The benefits of tangerine peel have been told to you in detail. If you have symptoms of cough and sore throat, you can use tangerine peel to reduce phlegm and relieve cough. It has a good therapeutic effect and has the effect of dispelling cold and drying dampness. You can carry it with you at home or when traveling and use it at any time. Are you still troubled by cough? Why not try this method?