Source

1. "Supplements to the Compendium of Materia Medica": Citrus types include red tangerine, milk tangerine, yellow tangerine, stone tangerine, and sand tangerine. Oranges include red orange, milk orange, tanuo, mountain orange, and yellow tangerine. The skin of this generation is all removed from the Qi-regulating middle, and the real thing is edible. The best is the tangerine.

2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Milk tangerine seeds are mostly sold as tangerine peels today, so it is a must. Orange peel is not very bitter, but orange peel is extremely bitter, even when ripe.

3. "Compendium": The peel of tangerines is yellower and slightly thicker than that of oranges, the texture is slightly thicker but the taste is not bitter, tangerines can be stored for a long time, and tangerines are easy to spoil. Mandarin trees are afraid of ice and snow, but tangerine trees are slightly afraid of it. This is the difference between tangerines and tangerines. Nowadays, people often use tangerine and tangerine peel interchangeably, so they must be distinguished.

Pinyin name Gān

English name mandarin orange

Alias: Jinshi, Ganzi, Munu, Ruijinu, Barrel Orange, Honey Barrel Orange, Zhaogan.

Source

Medicinal material source: It is the fruit of various citrus species such as Rutaceae tea mandarin.

Latin plant, animal and mineral name: Citrus chachiensis Hort.

Harvesting and storage: Harvest when the fruits are mature in autumn and use fresh.

The original form of Chazhigan is a small tree, 2-3m high. The branches are densely leafy and have very few needles. The leaves are alternate, often oval, with a tapered apex and a wedge-shaped base. The leaf margins are not obviously serrated, and the leaf wings are small and not obvious. The flowers are small white, with yellow-green sepals and 5 petals. The fruit is oblate or steamed bun-shaped, with a longitudinal diameter of 4.5-6cm and a transverse diameter of 6.5-7cm. The base is flat or raised, with 4-8 shallow radial grooves on it, and the top is slightly concave; the peel is easy to peel, crispy in texture, and the inner layer is white. Cotton-like, fragrant; sac 11-12 petals; central column empty, sweet and sour taste; more than 20 seeds, oval, light yellowish brown. Fruit ripening period is mid-December.

The habitat distribution is mainly distributed in the Pearl River Delta area, with Xinhui and Sihui being the most cultivated areas. It is also cultivated in the suburbs of Guangzhou.

Chemical composition: Banana tangerine fruit contains hesperidin (Hesperidin), nobiletin (Nobiletin) and volatile oil. The roots contain Stigmasterol, β-Sitosterol and Xanthyletin.

Bitter in nature and flavor; sour; cool

Returns through the stomach; large intestine meridian

Functions: Clearing away heat and stopping body fluid; sobering up and diuresis. Indications: chest diaphragm irritability, thirst, desire to drink, drunkenness, and difficulty in urination.

Usage: Use appropriate amount, raw food

Note

People with weak spleen and stomach should not take it.

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": If the spleen and kidneys are cold and people eat their meat, it will often cause cold storage or diarrhea.

2. "Medical Compilation Essentials": Eating more will produce cold phlegm.

3. "Suixiju Diet Spectrum": Wind and cold are taboo diseases.

Discussions by various schools

1. Cui Yuxi's "Food Classic": Qi caused by food is mainly due to heat, trouble and fullness in the chest.

2. "Kaibao Materia Medica": relieves heat poisoning in the intestines and stomach, relieves excessive thirst, and facilitates urination.

3. "Yilin Zhuan Yao": eliminate troubles and sober up.

Excerpt from "Chinese Materia Medica"