Medicinal value

According to legend, exocarpium citri grandis was discovered in the Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasty. Since ancient times, it has been called "southern ginseng" and "one piece is worth one gold".

Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty records: "A good orange has two kinds of white flesh, and its effect of benefiting qi, resolving phlegm and relieving cough is twice as good as that of other drugs ... the older the better."

"Compendium of Materia Medica" in the Qing Dynasty states: "Orange is used to treat phlegm, eliminate greasy, help digestion, sober up, relax the spleen and relieve crab poison." In the 14th year of Guangxu, Peng wrote the Annals of Huazhou, saying, "Huazhou is orange-red, treating phlegm like a god, and every true feeling is worth a gold".

People's Republic of China (PRC) Pharmacopoeia (1990 edition): "Orange is pungent, bitter and warm, and enters the lung and spleen meridians. It has the effects of dispelling cold, eliminating dampness, benefiting qi and resolving phlegm, and can be used for cough due to wind-cold, itchy throat, excessive phlegm, food retention, wine injury, nausea and other symptoms. "

Modern medicine has proved that the main components of grapefruit, namely "dihydroflavone" and "naringin" (C27H32O 14), are extremely high, and it also contains effective components such as "carotenoid interaction", which not only has magical effects of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, but also has magical effects on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health, beauty and detoxification, and has excellent health care and medical effects. There are many records of materia medica in past dynasties, and they are also recognized and respected by doctors in past dynasties.

Extended data:

Distinguish and distinguish

The difference between oranges and tangerines;

The first is personality and effective ingredients.

(1) orange: irregular strip or flake in shape, yellowish brown or orange red in surface, shiny, covered with oily spots, fragrant in taste, and numb after being slightly bitter. The main effective component contains hesperidin.

(2) Exocarpium Citri Grandis: mostly pentagonal, hexagonal or heptagonal in shape, with yellow or yellowish green skin, hairy, wrinkled and pitted, slightly fragrant and bitter. It mainly contains naringin.

The second is function. Both taste bitter, pungent and warm. But oranges are used for relieving cough, excessive phlegm, indigestion and no heat. Exocarpium Citri Grandis has the functions of resolving phlegm, regulating qi, invigorating spleen and promoting digestion, and is used for relieving phlegm stagnation in chest, relieving cough and asthma.

References:

Exocarpium Citri Grandis (Rutaceae Citrus)-Baidu Encyclopedia