Sweet Orange: The medicinal herb is based on the sweet orange of the rubiaceae family. (Chinese Materia Medica)
1. Summary of classics
1. "Dictionary of Chinese Medicine": "Sweet orange peel rational qi, phlegm, spleen, stagnation." Cure colds and coughs, loss of appetite, chest and abdominal distension and pain, intestinal diarrhea, cradle carbuncle. ”
2. "Yunnan Materia Medica": "Sweet orange peel is warm, and the taste is slightly bitter." Into the spleen, lungs two meridians. The main descending gas is wide, and the old sputum is solid as glue. ”
3. "Lingnan Medicine Collection Record": "Sweet orange peel cures cradle carbuncle at the beginning, uses it to fry water, and washes the affected area several times in a big heat." "Sweet orange leaves mash sores, can relieve pain and spread stasis."
4. "Sichuan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine": "Sweet orange peel is warm, sweet and bitter, non-toxic." Gasify phlegm, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach. Cure loss of appetite, chest and abdomen full of swelling and pain, abdominal thunder and stool or loose or diarrhea. ”
5. "Chinese Materia Medica": "Sweet orange pixin; Bitterness; Lukewarm. Attribution to the spleen; Lung meridians. Healthy spleen; Lowers reverse sputum. The main spleen and stomach are stagnant and the abdomen is full; Nausea and vomiting; Loss of appetite; Sputum inverse cough and phlegm; The chest septum is stuffy; Plum nuclear gas. ”
"Sweet orange leaf spicy; Bitterness; Sexual flatness. Return to the liver meridian. Relieves pain. Swelling and pain in the main sores"
6. "Introduction to Medicine": "Sweet orange peel tastes spicy and fragrant, can eliminate the evil qi in the stomach and intestines, sober up the wine and eat the wind, and the owner is disgusting and juicy." ”
2. Modern research
1. Ingredients: Sweet orange peel contains 1.5%-2% volatile oil, and its main components are n-decanal, citral, limonene and octanol. It also contains citrus glycosides, hesperidins, and naringenins.
Sweet orange leaves contain volatile oils 0.2 to 0.3%, of which the main ingredients are linalool, citral and limonene.
2. Pharmacology: Sweet orange peel decoction can inhibit the movement of the stomach, intestines and uterus, the effect is similar to the tangerine peel but weak, has an excitatory effect on the in vitro frog heart, so that the anesthetic dog, rabbit blood pressure rises. Orange peel contains 0.93-1.95% orange peel oil, which is effective for chronic tracheitis, easy to accept by patients, and has no irritating effect on the kidneys. The lime pigment contained in orange peel, rabbit oral administration of 0.75 mg / kg / day has a contraceptive effect. The pectin of the citrus fruit endothelium of citrus citric genus can reduce the serum of cholesterol (mixed in the feed for 1% of the total for four weeks) rats fed and the cholesterol of the liver, and significantly reduce the adrenal glands, which is stronger than that of tomato pectin, because the methoxy group (9.2%) contained in it is higher than the latter (6.5%); This pectin along can reduce the incidence of atherosclerosis in feeding egg yolk powder or spontaneous small lai heng chicken, reduce the lesion, and for the former can reduce the serum cholesterol, the above effect is mainly due to the pectin to accelerate food through the digestive tract, so that lipids and cholesterol are excreted with feces faster, and control the diet of people, also has the effect of reducing cholesterol.