Fresh orange peel is not easy to make tea drink Orange peel, also known as Chen Pi, is a commonly used Chinese medicine to regulate qi, strengthen the stomach and resolve phlegm. Using orange peel to make water to drink tea has the effect of clearing heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, but fresh orange peel to make water to drink tea is not good for health. With the improvement of planting technology and the application of preservation technology. In recent years, most of the fruit growers picking oranges with freshness preservatives after soaking and then listed. Preservatives for a chemical agent, soaked oranges have no effect on the flesh, but the orange peel residual preservatives are difficult to wash off with water, if you use such orange peel soak water for tea, the damage to health is obvious. Functions and Indications - The effects of orange peel are to dissolve phlegm, benefit the diaphragm, eliminate food, stop vomiting, and kill fish and crab poisons. ① "Food Therapy Materia Medica": nausea stomach wind, take the skin and salt storage. ② "Kai Bao Materia Medica": dispersing bad gas in the stomach and intestines, eliminating food, and removing floating wind in the stomach. ③ "Compendium": sugar for orange ding, sweet, eliminating phlegm and gas, diaphragmatic broadening, detoxification. (4) "With the disease residence dietary spectrum": stop vomiting and wake up the stomach, kill fish, crab poison. Even the fresh orange peel not soaked in preservatives to drink tea instead of tea does not play its due therapeutic effect. The reason why orange peel is also known as orange peel is that the longer the orange peel is aged, the better, generally should be placed every other year before it can be used. Tao Hongjing, a famous medical doctor in the North and South Dynasties, suggested that "orange peel is good for those who have been aged for a long time". According to the research proved that there are adrenaline-like components present in the water decoction of Chenpi, but it is more stable than adrenaline and is not destroyed when boiling. Chenpi every other year after the volatile oil content is greatly reduced, and the relative increase in the content of flavonoids, when the medicinal value of Chenpi can be fully realized.