2, tangerine leaves Introduction:
Alias: orange leaves ("Diannan Materia Medica").
Cited books: "Compendium"
Source: Rutaceae plant Fu orange or Zhu orange and other orange leaves. Plant details "orange" article.
Functions and Indications: Relieving the liver, promoting the flow of qi, resolving phlegm, and eliminating swellings and toxins. It is used to treat dystocia, breast carbuncle, lung carbuncle, cough, chest and diaphragm plumpness, hernia.
Collection: Year-round, December to February is best, after harvesting or sun-drying.
Medicinal: dried leaves more curled, spreading rhombic long oval or elliptic, 5-8 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, gray-green or yellow-green surface, smooth, light can be illuminated by numerous small transparent glandular dots. The texture is thick, hard and brittle, easy to break. Aromatic, bitter flavor.
Chemical composition: Wenzhou orange leaves contain vitamin C151 mg%: another variety of carbon hydrates, such as glucose, fructose, sucrose, starch and cellulose, etc., and its content in the blossoming of the higher, fruit ripening gradually reduced, and then increased after picking. All kinds of orange leaves contain volatile oil.
Taste and flavor: bitter and pungent, flat.
Use and dosage: Internal use: decoction, 2 to 5 money (fresh 2 to 4 taels); or pound juice.
Prescription: ① Cough: orange leaves (honey on the back, fire-roasted dry), water decoction. ("Yunnan Materia Medica")
② carbuncle: green orange leaves (wash), pounded and twisted juice of a cup of service, spit out pus and blood healing. ("Experience")
3 treatment of typhoid fever, chest and diaphragm plumpness: orange leaves pounded and face ironing. (Ben Jing Feng Yuan)
4 hernia: tangerine leaves ten, lychee kernel five (roasted). Decocted with water. (Diannan Materia Medica)
⑤ Treatment of edema: fresh tangerine leaves, a large grip. Decoction of sweet wine. ("Guiyang city secret prescription")
6 treatment of gas pain, gas bloating: tangerine leaves pounded, fried hot outside, or decoction. ("Chongqing Herbal Medicine")
7 kill roundworms, pinworms: fresh orange leaves four two boiled water. (Chongqing Herbal Medicine)