Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae mainly contains volatile oil, flavonoids, organic amines and trace elements.

1. Promoting digestive enzyme activity

Chenpi can obviously promote the activity of salivary amylase, which also provides experimental basis for regulating qi and strengthening spleen.

2. Insecticide and microbial activity inhibition

The results showed that tangerine peel, orange peel and orange peel extracts had certain killing ability to carrot aphid, bean aphid, red finger aphid and peach aphid, while tangerine peel, patchouli and mugwort leaf had strong antifungal activity.

3. Anti-aging and antioxidant effects

Experiments show that the extract of dried tangerine peel can scavenge superoxide anion and hydroxyl radical, and inhibit lipid peroxidation of oxygen radical generation system, which means that dried tangerine peel has obvious antioxidant effect.

4. Shugan cholagogic effect

Chenpi can significantly reduce the proportion of cholesterol and cholesterol saturation index in animal secretions, so it is considered to have the function of soothing the liver and regulating qi.

5. Antitumor effect

It is considered that the effective component of anti-tumor effect of tangerine peel is polymethoxyflavone, which has obvious inhibitory effect on transplanted sarcoma and liver cancer in mice.

In addition, dried tangerine peel also showed some anti-fatigue, anti-mutation, beauty and health care, nutrition and other effects in the experiment, and was considered to have great development value in sports medicine, geriatrics, beauty medicine and so on.

Wax gourd:

Winter melon, alias white melon, east melon, water cheese, etc. Also called pillow melon, because its shape is similar to that of pillows in the past. Wax gourd is generally fat, with thick skin and tender meat, loose and juicy, and light taste. In family cooking, it is suitable for roasting, stewing, roasting, frying and making soup, such as ham and melon sauce.

Wax gourd is rich in nutrients, with high contents of protein, carbohydrates, inorganic salts and vitamins, especially vitamin C. The nutritional components of wax gourd have three characteristics: First, it contains almost no fat, less sugar, more water and higher cellulose. Second, wax gourd is a low-sodium vegetable, which is suitable for patients with kidney disease and edema. Third, wax gourd has many medicinal functions. Chinese medicine believes that wax gourd can clear away heat and promote diuresis, detoxify wine and fish, relieve vexation and quench thirst, and can cure chest obstruction, thirst and dysuria. Not only that, the skin and pulp of wax gourd also have the functions of relieving annoyance, promoting fluid production to quench thirst and hangover. The skin of wax gourd is often used as a Chinese medicine for diuresis and detumescence.

Modern research shows that wax gourd is a high-potassium food with low energy, low fat and extremely low sugar content, which contains many vitamins, inorganic salts, fenugreek, propanol diacid and other active ingredients. Fenugreek has a unique effect on human metabolism. Malonic acid rich in wax gourd can inhibit the conversion of starch and sugar into fat in the body, prevent the accumulation of fat in the body, and has a strong diuretic effect, thus eliminating excess water in the body and achieving the effects of losing weight, reducing blood fat and increasing weight. So wax gourd is called "slimming melon". Moreover, winter melon seeds contain saponins, urease, histidine and other active ingredients, and decoction with winter melon seeds has a certain therapeutic effect on infectious diseases such as chronic bronchitis, lung abscess, enteritis and pneumonia.

Materials:

Sparerib in moderation.

Composition:

Black melon and dried tangerine peel are suitable.

Seasoning:

The right amount of salt.

Exercise:

1. Wash the black-skinned wax gourd and cut it into large pieces for blanching. Chenpi is soft.

2. Grind the ribs into inches, blanch them, wash them, put them in a casserole and cook them over low heat until they are half cooked. Boil wax gourd until it is 80% cooked, and add dried tangerine peel to cook until it is fully cooked. Add seasoning to taste and serve.