Orange peel

[ source ] from south of the Five Ridges."" herbs
[ ] Pinyin name Ch e n be P Golf
English name [ ] pericarp of Fragrant Citrus
[ alias ] and skin, yellow skin, orange, orange peel.
[ source ]
Medicine source: as the family Rutaceae orange Citrus sinensis ( L. ) Osbeck peel.
Latin animal mineral name: Citrus sinensis ( L. ) Osbeck
Harvest and storage: winter or early spring when collecting edible orange peel the fruit peel, dried or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of orange small evergreen trees, high 3-8m. Rounded crown, branched, glabrous, with spines or thorns, immature technology there are edges and corners. Leaves alternate,1-foliolate; petiole length0.6-2cm, Ye Yi2-3mm wide, narrow, apex joint; leaf quality thick, oval or ovoid, length 6-12cm, width 2.3-5.5cm, apex acute or acuminate, slightly concave, base broadly cuneate or rounded, undulating green, or have no obvious wavy toothed, a translucent oil glands. Flowers1 to several fascicled leaf axils, white, has a shank; calyx3-5 cleft, lobes triangular; petals 5, ligulate, ca.1.5cm, width of7mm, outward counter roll; stamen filaments lower19-28, even5-12beam synthesis, pistil 1, ovary subglobose,10-13 room, stigma capitate, style fine, don't fall off. Citrus fruit oblate or subglobose, diameter 6-9cm, orange or reddish orange, peel thicker, not easy to peel, pulp juice sac8-13, yellow, sweet. Seed wedge ovoid, smooth surface. Florescence in April, fruit is ripe period11-12.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: Cultivation in the hilly, low mountain region and the rivers and lakes along the coast.
Resource distribution: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places have cultivation.
[ character ] the complete peel shows petaloid, slightly like orange peel, but relatively thick, thick up to 2-3mm. The appearance of gold, rough, with a plurality of concave oil glands, than the orange peel thick, distribution is more sparsely. In the form of white color, attached with a small yellow veins, not easy to peel. Body soft, moist, easily broken. Fragrance, taste bitter. To the golden color, no spots, complete into Zhang Zhe. The goods in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Guangxi ( Shanghai county ), and other places for orange peel, known as soil or soil tangerine peel orange peel, orange peel strip. Both plants of Citrus aurantium L lime peel is also called orange peel, called bitter orange.
[ ] peel volatile oil chemical composition containing1.5%-2%, as its main ingredient is capric aldehyde ( decanal ), citric aldehyde ( citral ), limonene ( limonene ) and alcohol ( octyl alcohol ). The other containing poncirin ( poncirin ), hesperidin ( hesperidin ), naringin ( naringin ).
[ ] pharmacological effects of acid orange peel contains a lot of vitamin A, and can be used as a weak stomachic and aromatic flavoring agent. Orange Peel Decoction can inhibit the stomach, intestine and uterus movement, action and Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae similar but weaker, on isolated frog heart stimulant, the rise of blood pressure in anesthetized dogs, rabbits. Orange peel oil containing 0.93-1.95% ( Orange oil ) on chronic tracheitis, effective, easily accepted by patients, no stimulating effect on kidney. Orange peel pigment content in the lime, rabbit oral0.75mg / kg / day with contraceptive effect. Citron is a Citrus fruit pectin can reduce endothelial fed cholesterol ( in the mixed feed in 1%, a total of around) in rat serum and liver cholesterol, and adrenal is reduced apparently, this effect is tomato pectin is strong, because of containing methoxy (9.2%) was higher than that of the latter (6.5%) so the pectin; along can reduce feed egg yolk powder or spontaneous small Leghorn incidence of atherosclerotic lesions, loss, and the former can make serum cholesterol reducing, the effect is mainly due to acceleration of food through the digestive tract of pectin, the lipid and cholesterol faster with the feces discharged, and a control diet, have lower cholesterol effect of.
[ ] there have been reported toxicity toxicity.
[ ] the bitter taste of spice; temperature;
[ ] the lung spleen meridian;
[ ] functions Qi spleen; Jiangni phlegm. The lag of spleen and stomach flatulence; nausea and vomiting; anorexia; inverse gas of phlegm and cough with phlegm; thoracic compartment filled with stuffy; Globus
[ usage]: orally taken decoction,3-10g; or at the end of the inquiry. External : the amount, water decoction fumigation.
[ method ] (1) attached to cure a cold cough with sputum: orange, tuckahoe, method, woody, aster, peucedanum. Decoction. (" Sichuan in medicine annals" ) (2) treating sputum node in laryngeal cough, spit out, pharynx does not fall, because the liver is not easy, gas stagnation meiheqi: Science of dried orange peel two money ( white ), soil root of herbaceous peony two money, Suzi two money, a money of Platycodon grandiflorum. Reference bamboo Jiantang clothes. (" Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" )
[ ] the discussion
1" South Yunnan Materia Medica": yellow skin and phlegm asthma, cough, phlegm than gas, power of Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae; filling the stomach and less power, Pericarpium Citri reticulatae. Master Shi wide, broken old phlegm and phlegm solid such as glue.
2" south of the Five Ridges" : cure mastitis herbs were recorded at the beginning of, and hot water to wash the affected area, several times.
3" Sichuan Journal of Chinese Materia Medica": row of phlegm, warm the stomach spleen. Treatment of anorexia, abdominal full expansion ache, stomach and bowel movement or hog or purging.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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