The efficacy and function of sweet orange

Traditional Chinese medicine has always been the best choice for many people to treat diseases. It is very helpful in treating diseases and you can rest assured when choosing it. Today we will introduce a traditional Chinese medicine - sweet orange.

[Other names] Yellow fruit (Yunnan Hui Yu Heng Zhi), orange (Southern Yunnan Materia Medica), Xinhui orange (Illustrated Catalogue of Plant Names and Realities), Guangju (Chinese Tree Taxonomy). Snow orange, Chinese orange, and Chinese orange (Flora of Guangzhou)

[Source] It is the ripe fruit of the sweet orange plant of the Rutaceae family. Harvest the fruits when ripe.

[Original form] Evergreen small tree, 2 to 3 meters high. There are many branches, which are glabrous, and the twigs are flat and angular, without thorns or with a few thorns. The leaves are degenerate into simple leaves: the petiole is 0.8-1.8 cm long, the leaf wings are narrow, 2-3 mm wide, and there is a distinct septum at the junction with the leaf; the leaf blade is elliptical, 6-12 cm long, 3-5.5 cm wide, gradually pointed at the apex, broadly cuneate at the base, with inconspicuous wavy serrations on the edge; leathery. The calyx is cup-shaped, 3-5 lobed, with ovate lobes and narrow pointed tips; there are 4-8 petals, usually 5, oblong, up to 1.5 cm long and 0.7 cm wide; there are many stamens, and the filaments are often clustered and fused on the disk; the ovary is superior, with 10-13 chambers, each with 4-8 ovules, and the style is thick and often falls off early. The fruit is large, spherical, 7 to 9 cm in diameter, orange-yellow when ripe, with large, round oil cells that are prominent, juicy and sweet. Flowering period is May. Fruiting period is November.

[Habitat distribution] It is cultivated in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

[Chemical composition] The fruit contains flavonoids, lactones, alkaloids, organic acids, etc. Among the flavonoids are hesperidin, naringenin, isosakuratin-7-rutoside, naringenin-4'-glucoside-7-rutoside, naringin, limonin-3-β-P-glucoside and OD-xylosylvitexin. Among lactones, there is the bitter dilactone component limonin, namely phellodendron lactone and its derivative limonolactone. The bioalkali is narcotine. The main organic acids are citric acid and malic acid. It also contains phloroglucinol-β-D-glucoside, sugars, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc.

[Pharmacological action] The seed extract of this variety is used in Africa to treat malaria. It can shrink the enlarged spleen, but it can cause severe respiratory depression.

[Properties and flavors] ① "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Slightly warm in nature. Pungent and slightly bitter in taste."

[return through meridians] enters the Jueyin Liver Meridian.

[Functions and indications] It can promote the flow of qi that is blocked in the Jueyin meridian, stop the pain in the left rib caused by liver qi, relieve bloating caused by the downward movement of qi, and promote the flow of milk blocked in the Yangming meridian.

[Additional prescription] To treat breast obstruction, redness, swelling, hardness, pain, chills and fever in women: 2 qian of finely ground dried orange seeds. If it is fresh, mash it into juice and add some water or wine to drink. (The following meridians are from "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica")

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From the revised edition of "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica".

The above is a detailed introduction to the effects and functions of sweet orange. Your choice should be based on your own needs, so that it will not harm your body and can achieve a good effect in improving the disease.