1. Choose ripe oranges without cyan. Soak in salt water for a while, brush the waxed oranges with a toothbrush and toothpaste, and then clean them with water.

2. Dry the clean oranges, peel them off and put them in a ventilated and sunny place to dry thoroughly.

3. Put the dried orange peel into a steamer, boil the water and steam for about 10 minute, and dry the steamed orange peel again.

4. In the same way, steam it once and sun it twice. The color of steamed orange peel will change, and it already looks like dried tangerine peel.

5. After the orange peel is completely dried and sealed, give it time to ferment slowly to produce more medicinal components.

Step 6: Skills

Green tangerine peel is green after drying, which is different from ordinary tangerine peel. Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride (Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride) has a very strong function of breaking qi, which is mainly used to treat stagnation of liver qi, and is not suitable for ordinary people's daily health care. When steamed, it gives off the volatile oil contained in fresh orange peel, which has a strong pungent smell. The volatile oil is evaporated by repeated cooking.