Efficacy of bergamot: composition: the water content of bergamot is about 78 {BF}, ash content is 0.7 {BF}, protein 1.2 {BF}, fat 1.3 {BF}, crude fiber 1. 1 {BF}, and carbohydrate.
Taste: pungent, bitter, sour and warm.
Meridian tropism: liver, spleen and lung meridian tropism.
Efficacy: soothing liver and regulating qi, harmonizing stomach and relieving pain. It can be used for stagnation of qi in liver and stomach, distending pain in chest and hypochondrium, epigastrium fullness, eating less and vomiting.
Function of bergamot: (1) Gastrointestinal spasmolysis: The alcohol extract of bergamot has obvious inhibitory effect on isolated and in vivo intestines of rats and rabbits, has obvious spasmolytic effect on duodenal spasm, and can quickly relieve the tension increase of stomach, intestine and gallbladder caused by carbamoyl choline in anesthetized cats.
(2) Antiasthmatic and expectorant: Its decoction can completely resist histamine-induced tracheal contraction in guinea pigs in vitro. In the screening of various drugs for regulating qi in Rutaceae, Chuanbergamot has a better antiasthmatic effect. Citrolactone also has antagonistic effect on histamine-induced tracheal contraction in isolated guinea pigs. Citron and Citron, both bergamot, contain volatile oil with expectorant effect.
(3) Analgesic effect: The alcohol extract of bergamot can significantly prolong the sleep time of pentobarbital sodium mice, prolong the lethal time of strychnine convulsion in mice, significantly inhibit the pain response caused by antimony potassium tartrate or electrical stimulation in mice, and reduce the number of writhing reactions.
(4) Protecting the heart: The alcohol extract of bergamot can significantly increase the coronary flow of isolated guinea pig heart, improve the hypoxia tolerance of mice, protect myocardial ischemia caused by pituitrin in rats, and prevent arrhythmia caused by chloroform-epinephrine.
(5) Anti-inflammatory and detumescence: Buddha's hands contain geraniol and hesperidin, which has anti-inflammatory and detumescence effects.
(6) Ornamental value: it is a beautiful wood with good shape, color and fragrance, which not only has high ornamental value, but also has precious medicinal and economic value. The peel is yellow-green or orange-yellow, with wrinkles and oil spots, and the flesh is yellowish white with uneven linear or punctate vascular bundles. Hard and brittle, elastic after being affected with damp, slightly sweet in fragrance and bitter in taste. Bergamot is rich in various nutrients, such as water, carbohydrates, crude fiber, ash, limonin, trihydroxydimethoxy flavone and various amino acids needed by human body. It has high health care function, and is mainly used to treat qi stagnation of liver and stomach, cough and asthma, loss of appetite, vomiting, chest tightness and so on.
Notes for bergamot: bergamot is suitable for people.
Generally everyone can eat it. The skin of bergamot is yellow-green or orange-yellow, with wrinkles and oil spots. The flesh is yellowish white with uneven linear or punctate vascular bundles. Hard and crisp, elastic after being wet, slightly sweet and bitter, which is helpful for soothing the liver and regulating qi, and regulating stomach pain. It can be used for treating liver and stomach qi stagnation, chest pain, abdominal distension, anorexia, vomiting and other symptoms. Because bergamot is rich in vitamins, amino acids and other nutrients needed by the human body, it can be eaten by men, women and children. However, because papaya belongs to warm food, people with yin deficiency, body heat and weak constitution should eat less.
1, which has obvious relieving effect on tracheitis and asthma in the elderly.
2. It has obvious curative effect on dyspepsia and chest tightness.
3. Patients with cough due to excessive phlegm, patients with hypertension, women with leukorrhagia, patients with liver depression and qi stagnation, patients with qi stagnation of spleen and stomach, and patients with phlegm-dampness blocking lung can also eat it, which is beneficial to relieve the disease.
Precautions for eating
Because bergamot belongs to warm food, people with yin deficiency, body heat and weak constitution should eat less. Knowledge expansion of bergamot: how to eat
Bergamot porridge
Raw materials: bergamot 10g, japonica rice 10g, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice: First, wash the bergamot, chop it up, add 1200ml water, fry 1000ml juice, and put it in a crock for later use; Wash the japonica rice clean, put it in bergamot juice with rock sugar, and stew it for 30 minutes with slow fire to make porridge.
Stir-fried bergamot
Ingredients: 250 grams of bergamot, appropriate amount of seasoning.
Practice: Wash the bergamot, shred it, heat it with vegetable oil, stir-fry the onion and ginger, then add the bergamot, stir-fry until cooked, and add salt and monosodium glutamate.
Fried celery with bergamot
Ingredients: bergamot, celery, seasoning.
Practice: Wash and shred bergamot and celery; Heat vegetable oil in a pot, add onion and ginger and stir fry, then add bergamot and celery and stir fry until cooked, add salt and monosodium glutamate and stir fry until cooked.
Gualuo bergamot pork liver soup
Raw materials: pork liver 150g, loofah sponge 20g, Albizia Albizia flower 10g, hawthorn 10g, fingered citron, chrysanthemum and orange peel 6g, and appropriate seasoning.
Practice: Wash and slice the pig liver, soak the rest drugs in boiling water 1 hour, then remove the residue to get juice, put it into liver slices, steam it, take out the pig liver and add a little sesame oil to taste it, once a day 1 dose.
Bamboo shoot bergamot freckle removing soup
Ingredients: bamboo shoots, bergamot, ginger.
Practice: Slice the bamboo shoots, cook them thoroughly with bergamot and ginger, add salt and mix well, put them in a pot for 24 hours and then take them. 1 ~ 2 months.
Bergamot ginger juice
Raw materials: fresh bergamot 1, fresh ginger 10g.
Practice: wash the bergamot and cut it into thin slices for later use; Peel and clean fresh ginger, cut it into thin slices, put it in a crock with bergamot slices, add 300 ml of water, boil it with strong fire, and continue frying it with slow fire for 20 minutes, then filter out the juice and drink it warmly.
Bergamot dew
Materials: 2 fresh bergamot.
Practice: first wash the bergamot, cut it into thin slices and put it in a steel pot. Add 1000ml water, fry for 25 minutes, and filter out the juice; Put the juice into a distiller, and the juice obtained by distillation becomes bergamot.
Bergamot tea
Raw materials: fresh bergamot 12- 15g (6 g dry).
Practice: brew with boiling water and drink tea instead. Or 6 grams of bergamot and 6 grams of rhizoma corydalis, decocted in water, and used for treating qi pain in liver and stomach (including chronic gastritis, gastric neuralgia, etc. ).
Bergamot juice
Materials: 6 grams of bergamot and 6 grams of Jiang Banxia.
Practice: Decoct with water to remove residue, add sugar and take warm clothes, which can be used for wet phlegm cough (including chronic bronchitis).
Bergamot honey
Ingredients: bergamot100g, honey 250g, liquor10g.
Practice: * * Soak for 7 days or 7 months, twice a day, 2 spoonfuls each time, moistened, or washed with boiling water.
Bergamot wine
Ingredients: 3 kg of bergamot (sliced) and 20 kg of white wine.
Practice: soak 1 for half a year and drink alcohol in moderation every day.
Bergamot tea
Practice: The bergamot is crushed into coarse powder, each time 10g, and soaked in water instead of tea.