George, a Chinese medicine called Fructus Aurantii.
Alias fried immature bitter orange, shell and shell.
English name FructusAurantii
Watermelon from Rutaceae. Nearly ripe fruit.
Small evergreen tree with many branches. Branches angular and spiny. Simple and compound leaves, alternate; Leaf blade is broadly elliptic or ovoid, 7 ~ 65438 02 cm long and 4 ~ 7 cm wide, with narrow and sharp apex and round or broad wedge-shaped base; Petiole wing obovate, width 1 ~ 1.5 cm, sometimes narrow or wide, petiole short. Flowers are white, solitary or 2 ~ 3 in clusters in leaf axils. Calyx cupular, 5-lobed. Petals 5, oblong, fragrant, with veins. Stamens ca. 25. The filaments are bonded at the bottom. The fruit is nearly spherical, with a diameter of 5 ~ 8 cm, orange yellow and rough peel. The pulp has 10 ~ 12 petals, and the pulp is sour and bitter. The seed is about. 20. clap. The taste is milky white and single embryo. The flowering period is from May to July, and the fruiting period is11~ 65438+February.
Distribution of origin is mostly cultivated in hilly and low mountain areas. It is distributed in the Yangtze River valley of China, and mainly produced in Jiangxi, Hunan and Sichuan.
Harvesting and processing: harvesting in July when the peel is still green, cutting in half from the middle, and drying in the sun or at low temperature.
The medicinal materials are hemispherical with a diameter of 3 ~ 5 cm. Exocarp is brown, with granular protuberance, and obvious style residue or fruit stalk trace. The peel in the profile is yellow and white, and the edge is 1~2 oil discharge chamber. Hard and not easy to break. The capsule has 7~ 12 petals and contains seeds. It is fragrant, bitter and slightly sour.
The taste is warm, bitter, spicy and sour. Entering spleen meridian and stomach meridian.
Efficacy and function: regulating qi, relaxing the middle energizer, stagnating and relieving bloating. Belonging to a medicine for regulating qi.
Clinical application dosage is 3-9g, which is taken by decoction; I still took the pills and dispersed them. External use: appropriate amount, decocted in water or scalded. Can be used for treating chest and hypochondriac qi stagnation, abdominal distension and pain, dyspepsia, phlegm retention, gastroptosis, uterine prolapse, proctoptosis, etc.
Pharmacological research raises blood pressure; Urine inhibition; Antishock; Inhibit gastrointestinal movement; Has dual functions of exciting or inhibiting uterus.
Chemical components This product contains volatile oil, hesperidin, bitter orange glycoside, conifer glycoside, naringin -7- rutin, fumonisin, citrinin, neohesperidin, isoimperatorin, fennel coumarin, citrus cyclic peptide II, citrus cyclic peptide III, citrus cyclic peptide IV, honeysuckle glycoside, alkaloid and other components.
Contraindications for pregnant women should be used with caution.
Related prescriptions ① Treating qi stagnation and stopping phlegm-fire stagnation: Fructus Aurantii 30g and Cortex Magnolia Officinalis 24g, all fried with wheat bran. 6 grams of Fructus Aurantii and 4.8 grams of Cortex Magnolia Officinalis are used each time. Decoct with water. ("Materia Medica")
② Treatment of persistent cough with intense heat and unfavorable chest diaphragm: Fructus Aurantii (fried) 90g, Radix Platycodi 90g and Radix Scutellariae 60g. On the mouth, take 60 grams, three glasses of water and two glasses of water every morning and take them evenly three times, once at noon, once when applying and once when lying down. ("Ancient and Modern Medical System" Fructus Aurantii Soup)
③ Those who don't eat the pain in the right flank: Fructus Aurantii (fried), Cortex Cinnamomi (rough skin removed, without fire), Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens tablets (washed) each 15g, and Radix Glycyrrhizae (roasted Radix Glycyrrhizae) 4.5g ... The above is the powder, 6g each time, mixed with ginger and jujube soup, and wine is also acceptable. ("Re-ordering Yan Jisheng's Prescription" is pushed away)
④ Those who treat indigestion, fullness and pain in the heart, and suffocating like an egg: Fructus Aurantii (pulped, filed and fried with bran), Atractylodis Rhizoma 15g each, Rhizoma Cyperi (peeled with bran) 30g, and Areca catechu 9g. For the fine powder, take 6 grams each time and mix rice soup three times a day. ("Skill Prescription" Zhike Powder)
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