The efficacy and function of tangerine: it has the efficacy of generating fluids and moistening the lungs, regulating qi and resolving phlegm, and opening up the stomach to sober up; it has the effect of antioxidant, slowing down the aging process, lowering the brittleness of blood vessels and permeability, preventing colds, and regulating the blood pressure in both directions.
Tangerine is the mature fruit of orange and its cultivated varieties in the genus Citrus of the family Rutaceae.
Chinese medicine believes that tangerines are sweet, sour, and flat; belong to the lung and stomach meridian; with the efficacy of generating fluids and moisturizing the lungs, regulating qi and resolving phlegm, and opening the stomach and waking up the wine; it can be used for the treatment of thirst, vomiting and retching, chest and diaphragm knotting qi, diarrhea, coughing and phlegm and other illnesses.
Modern pharmacological research shows that oranges are rich in vitamin C, vitamin B?, vitamin B?, vitamin B?, β-sitosterol, β-coumarinol, carotene, folic acid, niacin, rich in glucose, fructose, sucrose, malic acid, citrate, etc., but also contains flavonoids and a small amount of protein, fat, such as hesperidin, pomelo rutin. Orange has antioxidant, delay aging, reduce vascular fragility and permeability, prevent colds and two-way regulation of blood pressure and other effects.