the nature and taste return to the meridian: pungent, bitter and warm. Spleen and lung meridian.
efficacy and application: regulating qi and invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm.
Chenpi is good at regulating qi and strengthening spleen, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm, which can be used for spleen and lung qi stagnation, abdominal distension, anorexia, nausea and vomiting, cough with excessive phlegm and phlegm, chest tightness and asthma.
It is often combined with Fructus Aurantii and Radix Aucklandiae to treat qi stagnation of spleen and stomach, epigastric distension and pain, nausea and anorexia.
For patients with spleen deficiency and qi stagnation, abdominal pain, abdominal distension after eating, anorexia and loose stool, it is often combined with Dangshen, Baizhu and Poria.
Modern research: Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae contains volatile oil, flavonoid glycosides, kaempferone, vitamin B, vitamin C, etc. The volatile oil contained in it has a slight stimulating effect on the digestive tract, which is beneficial to the discharge of gastrointestinal pneumatosis, the secretion of gastric juice, the digestion and the relaxation of gastrointestinal smooth muscle.
Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae is one of the commonly used Chinese medicines in clinic, which is mainly used to treat upper respiratory tract infection, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, whooping cough, acute and chronic hepatitis with dyspepsia, acute and chronic gastritis, cholecystitis, gastric and duodenal ulcer and acute mastitis.
In order to regulate the spleen and stomach function of middle energizer, more than 7% of the prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine are made of dried tangerine peel.
Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae is often used in the treatment of chronic gastritis in combination with other drugs, which has a significant effect on relieving abdominal distension, anorexia, abdominal pain and other symptoms, and is suitable for patients with pathological mechanisms of spleen deficiency and qi stagnation and spleen deficiency and dampness resistance in TCM syndrome differentiation.
note: those with excess heat and internal heat due to yin deficiency should be used with caution.
1. Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae and Poria cocos
Poria cocos is sweet and light in taste, with a flat nature, and belongs to the heart, spleen and kidney meridians; It has the functions of promoting diuresis, infiltrating dampness, strengthening the spleen and calming the heart. Poria cocos strengthens the spleen and permeates the dampness, so that the dampness does not gather and the phlegm is unproductive; Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae can strengthen the spleen and dry dampness, and also regulate the middle energizer. When used together, it can remove dampness, and is often used for phlegm, vomiting, dizziness, diarrhea, etc.
2. Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride and Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride
Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride is bitter and pungent, warm in nature, and enters liver and gallbladder meridians; It has the functions of soothing liver, breaking qi, resolving food stagnation and resolving stagnation. Green skin is fierce, and it is biased towards liver and stomach qi stagnation; Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae is warm but not severe, and it is partial to spleen and lung qi stagnation. Both of them must be compatible. It can smooth liver, gallbladder, spleen and lung qi stagnation, and is used for the symptoms of liver depression and qi stagnation, hypochondriac pain due to disharmony between stomach and qi, fullness in chest and abdomen, and epigastric pain.
3. Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae and Rhizoma Pinelliae
Rhizoma Pinelliae is pungent and warm in nature, and belongs to spleen, stomach and lung meridians; It has the functions of eliminating dampness, resolving phlegm, reducing adverse reaction, stopping vomiting, eliminating swelling and resolving hard mass, and is used externally to relieve swelling and pain. Both of them can dry dampness and eliminate phlegm, Pinellia ternata can reduce adverse flow, stop vomiting in the stomach, eliminate swelling and dissipate stagnation; Chen Pi's actions are stagnation of qi in the middle energizer, and strengthening the spleen and strengthening the body resistance. It is suitable for the diseases such as spleen losing health, nausea, vomiting, hiccup and cough with excessive phlegm due to dampness accumulation, which is taken from Erchen Decoction in Taiping Huimin Hejiju Prescription.