Citrus sweet and sour taste, cool nature, into the lungs, stomach meridian, has the role of appetizing and rationalizing the qi, coughing and moistening the lungs, the main treatment of the chest and septum knot qi, vomiting and less food, gastric yin insufficiency, dry thirst in the mouth, lung heat and coughing, and drinking too much alcohol.

Citrus is a treasure, can be used as medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that: Chenpi (dried mature citrus peel) can regulate qi and strengthen the spleen, and the stomach to stop vomiting, phlegm cough; green peel (immature citrus peel) can be soothing the liver to break the gas, eliminating the accumulation of stagnation; orange Luo (citrus peel inner layer of the sinews) is a good medicine to pass through the network, activate the blood, regulate the qi, eliminating the phlegm accumulation, the treatment of chronic cough and chest pain; orange kernel (Citrus sinensis seeds) has a rationalization of the qi, to disperse the knots, and to stop the hernia of the efficacy of the swelling and pain.

Citrus food taboos

Citrus is easy to fire, it is best not to eat more than 3 per day.

Citrus Effects and Contraindications 2

Nutritional Composition of Citrus

Citrus contains citrus, orange, grapefruit, citron, sweet orange, lime, kumquat, lime, and other a family. Fresh citrus fruits have a long history of cultivation in China, and will grow and develop as early as the 21st century AD.

1, citrus contains vitamin C, which can enhance the body's immune system, in addition, we understand that vitamin C for skin whitening, lightening age spots and so on is also very obvious practical effect.

2, citrus contains sodium citrate, which has a maintenance effect on vitamin C, so even if it is produced and processed into fruit juice, the vitamin C that is easily destroyed can be stored at a large level.

3, citrus also with dietary fiber and gum arabic, not only can laxative, but also can reduce the body's cholesterol, to prevent coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis and other diseases have a very good effect.

4, citrus peel with volatile oil, can enhance the metabolism of gastric acid, to assist in the digestion and absorption of ingredients, to reduce poor appetite.

What are the taboos against eating mandarin oranges

Mandarin oranges have foliar redness, if you take too much of them, the blood component increases dramatically and a lot of them are hoarded in the skin, so that the human body is rich in colorful skin, such as the palms of the hands, the fingertips, the palms of the feet, the lines of the decree, and the edges of the nasal cavity appeared to have a yellowish tinge, similar to the "yellow bile type hepatitis. "yellow bile type hepatitis", the difference can only be the white of the eyes is not yellow, go to the toilet hue all normal. This kind of unique. In medicine, it is called "carotenuria" or "luteinuria", and it is also called "yellow-orange skin disease". The reason for this is that after a lot of citrus is taken at one time, there is a significant increase in carotenoids in the blood, and the liver is unable to convert the unwanted carotenoids into vitamin D in time, so the carotenoid content in the skin increases significantly.

Citrus fruit, if eaten with carrot, easy to cause thyroid nodules. According to overseas authoritative experts in clinical medicine found that cruciferous vegetables and fruits such as carrot is eaten, can quickly cause a substance called thiocyanate, and quickly metabolized to cause a kind of anti-thyroid cyst thiocyanic acid. At this time, if the body in addition to the intake of fresh fruit containing many plant pigments citrus, it contains flavonoid substances in the stomach and intestines by the bacteria dissolved, can enhance the effectiveness of thiocyanic acid inhibition of thyroid cysts, and then cause or cause thyroid nodules.

Citrus effects and functions and contraindications 3

A, orange effects and functions

1, oranges can be beauty, oranges are the highest content of vitamin C, eat not only to keep the skin hydrated, but also help to inhibit the formation of melanin.

2, can eliminate fatigue, orange citric acid content is very high, citric acid not only has the effect of appetizing, but also eliminate the role of fatigue.

3, can reduce cholesterol, oranges are rich in dietary fiber, pectin can also reduce the incidence of cholesterol.

4, conducive to defecation, orange dietary fiber content is quite high, conducive to gastrointestinal motility, can promote defecation.

5, to promote cardiovascular health, tangerine glycosides on the promotion of capillary rows of blood vessel toughness, reduce cholesterol in the arterial blood vessels have a lot of help, so tangerine on the prevention of hypertension, coronary heart disease have a lot of help.

6, conducive to anti-cancer, orange in the "nomenclature" on the decomposition of carcinogenic substances in the body, inhibit the growth of cancer cells, improve the activity of detoxification enzymes, to protect the human body's genes are perfect with great help.

7, orange peel function, orange peel, also known as Chen Pi, is a qi, stomach, phlegm common Chinese medicine. With orange peel bubble water to drink tea, there is heat, cough, phlegm effect, but fresh orange peel bubble water to drink tea is not healthy. Porridge, put a few slices of orange peel, eat up the aroma and taste, but also can play the role of appetizing.

Second, orange food taboos

1, oranges can not be eaten

According to the test, eat 3 oranges per day, to meet the daily needs of each person on vitamin C. If you eat too much, overconsumption of vitamin C is not enough. If you eat too much, excessive intake of vitamin C, the body metabolism of oxalic acid will increase, easy to cause urinary stones, kidney stones. Also eating more is harmful to the mouth and teeth. Eat too much orange, children's oral cavity, teeth, gastric mucosa is also harmful.

If children eat too much orange, the calories produced that can not be converted into fat stored in the body, but also can not be consumed in a timely manner, it will be caused by the accumulation of "fire", manifested as stomatitis, periodontitis, pharyngitis and constipation.

2, gastrointestinal dysfunction eat leisurely

Gastrointestinal dysfunction, eat too many oranges, easy to gastric stone trouble. Excessive consumption of citrus fruits can cause "orange disease", skin yellowing and other symptoms.

3, oranges and milk should not be eaten together

Milk in the protein easy to react with orange fruit acids and vitamin C, coagulation into a block, not only affect the digestion and absorption, but also cause abdominal distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms, should be in the milk after drinking an hour and then eat oranges. In addition, the gastrointestinal, kidney, lung function of cold people can not eat, so as not to induce abdominal pain, waist and knee pain and so on.

4, should not be eaten with radish

Radish into the human body, will quickly produce a substance called sulfate, and soon metabolized to produce an anti-thyroid substance - thiocyanic acid. If you eat oranges at this time, the flavonoids in oranges will be broken down in the intestines and converted into hydroxybenzoic acid and ferulic acid, which can strengthen the inhibitory effect of thiocyanic acid on the thyroid gland, thus inducing or leading to goiter.

5, medication avoid eating oranges

Oranges are rich in fruit acids and vitamin C, taking vitamin K, sulfonamides, amphoteric acid, amphoteric acid and potassium medication should be avoided when eating oranges.

6, avoid fresh orange peel tea drink

Picked after the orange most of the preservatives soaked and then listed, the preservatives for a chemical agent, soaked oranges have no effect on the flesh, but the orange peel on the residual preservatives is difficult to wash off with water, if the orange peel with such a tea drink, damaging health.