Chinese medicine name Hovenia zhiqiao
Alias Fried Hovenia, only shell, commercial shell.
English name FructusAurantii.
Source Rutaceae plant Citrusaurantium L. near ripe fruit.
Plant Form Small evergreen tree with many branches. Branches with ribs and short spines. Single compound leaves, alternate; leaf blade broadly elliptic or broadly ovate, 7 to 12 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, apex narrow and acute or acute, base rounded or broadly cuneate; petiole wing obovate, 1 to 1.5 cm wide, sometimes narrower or wider, petiole short. Flowers white, solitary or in clusters of 2 to 3 in leaf axils. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-lobed. Petals 5, oblong, fragrant, veined. Stamens ca. 25. Filaments united at base. Fruit subglobose, 5-8 cm in diameter, orange-yellow, pericarp rough. Flesh capsule 10-12-valved, flesh sour with bitter flavor. Seeds ca. 20., ovate. Seed flavor creamy white, single embryo. Flowering period May to July, fruiting period November to December.
Origin and distribution are mostly cultivated in hilly and low mountainous areas. Distributed in China's Yangtze River Basin region, mainly produced in Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan.
Harvesting and processing in July when the pericarp is still green harvest, from the middle of the transverse cut into two halves, sun-dried or low-temperature drying.
Herbal properties hemispherical, 3-5 cm in diameter. Exocarp brown, with granular protrusions, with obvious stylar remnants or fruiting peduncle scars. Cut surface mesocarp yellow-white, the edge of 1~2 columns of oil chamber. The texture is hard, not easy to break. Flesh capsule 7~12 petals, containing seeds. The smell is fresh and fragrant, and the taste is bitter and slightly acidic.
These ingredients are warm, bitter, pungent and sour. Attributed to the spleen meridian, stomach meridian.
Effects and remedies to regulate qi and relax the middle Jiao, move stagnation and eliminate flatulence. It is also used to regulate the flow of qi.
Clinical application: 3-9 grams, decocted in soup for internal use; or in pills and powder. Externally: appropriate amount, decoction water wash or fried hot iron. It is used for treating stagnation of qi in the chest and hypochondrium, distension and labor pains, food accumulation without dissolution, internal storage of phlegm and drink, gastric ptosis, uterine prolapse, and prolapse of the anus.
Pharmacological studies elevate blood pressure; inhibit urination; anti-shock; inhibit gastrointestinal motility; and have a dual effect of excitation or inhibition on the uterus.
Chemical composition of this product contains volatile oil, hesperidin, citrus aurantium glycoside, pine pine glycoside, naringenin-7-rutinose glycoside, fucoidan, sweet orange, neohesperidin, iso-premarinolide, aniseed coumarin, citrus aurantium cyclic peptide Ⅱ, citrus aurantium cyclic peptide Ⅲ, citrus aurantium cyclic peptide Ⅳ, lonicera glycoside, alkaloid and other ingredients.
Contraindications for usePregnant women should be cautious.
Related remedies ① Treatment of Qi stagnation, food and drink, phlegm and fire stagnation: 30 grams of Citrus aurantium dulcis, 24 grams of Magnolia officinalis, all mixed with wheat bran fried. Each with 6 grams of hedgehog, thick Park 4.8 grams. Water decoction. ("Materia Medica Huiyan")
② treatment of chronic coughing epiglottis heat, chest and diaphragm unfavorable: Citrus aurantium (fried), Platycodon grandiflorus 90 grams, Scutellaria baicalensis 60 grams. On the mastication, 60 grams for a service every morning, three water decoction of two, even for three services, a service at noon, a service at shen time, a service when lying down. ("Ancient and Modern Medical System" Citrus aurantium soup)
3 treatment of right dystocia distension and fullness without food: Citrus aurantium (drums fried), Gui heart (remove the rough skin, not see the fire), pieces of turmeric (washed) each 15 grams, licorice (roasted) 4.5 grams. The above for the end, each serving 6 grams, ginger and jujube soup mix down, wine can also be. ("Reordering Yan's Jisheng Fang" push gas scattered)
4 treatment of diet stagnation, the heart under the plumping pain, yelping like a defeated egg: Citrus aurantium husk (remove the pith, filing, bran fried), Atractylodes macrocephala 15 grams, the fragrant adenosine (bran fried, peeled) 30 grams, betel nut 9 grams. For the fine powder, each serving 6 grams, rice soup mix down, 3 times a day. (《本事方》枳壳散)
ToxicityN-methyltyramine hydrochloride, intravenous LD50 33.9mg/kg. Sinfonium heavy tartrate rat subcutaneous injection administration of LD50 800mg/kg.
ToxicityN-methyltyramine hydrochloride, intravenous LD50 33.9mg/kg.