Dried tangerine peel - A medicinal herb that should be in every home

Dried tangerine peel is a popular medicinal herb in traditional medicine, has a fragrant smell, spicy, bitter taste, warm properties, and the effect of regulating blood circulation, eliminating phlegm, and strengthening the spleen.

Often used to treat bloating, indigestion, belching, cough with phlegm, poor appetite, vomiting, diarrhea... To get the tangerine peel medicine, when the tangerine is ripe, people pick the fruit, cut the peel into 3-4 pieces close to the stem, eat the segments, then string the peel on a string, dry in the wind or dry lightly. Do not hang the tangerine peel in the kitchen because it will lose its essential oil and get dirty easily.

The medicinal material has a reddish-yellow or reddish-brown outer surface, with wrinkles and small circular depressions. When exposed to light, the depressions are small but not very clear. Soft but brittle when dry, easy to break, the broken part is not flat. The longer it is kept, the better.

Tangerine peel

Here are some medicinal recipes from tangerine peel for your reference:

Lesson 1: Cure indigestion: Tear a few pieces of tangerine peel, wash with warm water, put in a cup of boiling water, steep for 15 - 20 minutes and it is ready to use. Note: Only drink the water while it is still hot, discard the residue.

Lesson 2:Treat digestive disorders due to eating, indigestion: Tangerine peel, Atractylodes macrocephala, Magnolia bark, ginger, each 10g; cardamom (roasted) 6g, licorice 4g, 3 jujubes. Boil and drink 1 dose per day. Use for about 5 days.

Lesson 3: Support treatment of physical weakness, poor appetite: 3g tangerine peel, 3g pepper, 6g galangal, 1 rooster about 1kg.

How to make: Clean chicken, cut into small pieces; put herbs in a muslin bag. Put everything in a pot, add water, spices, simmer, stew until soft, divide into 2-3 portions, eat during the day. Eat 2-3 times a week.

Lesson 4:Treat cough, sore throat, mild bronchitis: 6g tangerine peel, 6g platycodon grandiflorum, 6g perilla leaf, 4g licorice, decoct and drink during the day.

Lesson 5:Cure cough and loss of voice: 12g tangerine peel, boil with 200ml of water until 100ml remains, add enough sugar to sweeten, divide into several doses to drink during the day.

Lesson 6:Treat cough with phlegm (due to cold): 6g tangerine peel, 12g white poria, 6g pinellia root, 4g licorice, 2 slices fresh ginger, boil and drink 1 dose per day.

Lesson 7:Support treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers: 20g tangerine peel, 15g cyperus rotundus (fried with vinegar), 100g chicken. Boil tangerine peel and cyperus rotundus (take the water and discard the residue), simmer with washed and sliced ​​chicken until the water is dry, add fresh ginger (crushed), onion, spices, stir well.

Or: 15 - 20g tangerine peel, 150g rice. Boil or soak tangerine peel to get water, cook the water with rice to make porridge, when eating add a little sugar, salt, spices, depending on taste. Used for people with gastric - duodenal ulcers, bloating, epigastric pain, nausea...

Note: People with dry cough, yin deficiency without phlegm should not use.

According to Health and Life