The orange peel is a common Chinese herbal medicine. Orange peel dried in the sun to become Chenpi? This article will briefly share the knowledge in this regard:

Chenpi is sun-dried orange peel, to color red day long for the best, so the name Chenpi, also known as the red skin. The flavor is pungent, bitter, warm; attributed to the spleen, stomach, lung meridian; gas aroma Xuan Dai, can be ascending or descending. Chenpi is used with tonic medicine to replenish the deficiency, and with sedative medicine to sedate, and with the combination of different foods, not only can magnify the efficacy of the treatment of all diseases, but also made into a medicinal meal. The bitter taste of Chenpi can be harmonized with other flavors to form a unique flavor. Chenpi contains volatile oil vitamin B\C and other ingredients, it contains volatile oil on the gastrointestinal tract has a mild stimulating effect, can promote the secretion of digestive juices, remove the intestinal stagnation of gas, increase appetite. Chenpi is also a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine with the effect of invigorating the spleen by promoting qi, drying dampness and resolving phlegm, relieving greasiness and retaining aroma, and descending the rebelliousness and stopping vomiting.

The older the better the peel, whether it is bought inside the drugstore or in some flavor store to buy, the taste is relatively light, soak water is not good to drink, the selection of the skin is the most critical step, the best choice of the emperor citrus peel, made out of the peel than outside the sale of many times more fragrant! Emperor citrus slightly cleaned a few times can be, and then the emperor citrus peel drained, dry water, and then use a knife to cut three lines, and then set aside to take out the pulp, the citrus peel on the balcony ventilated sun to dry body, like the current autumn and winter seasons of the sun for four days so that it is dry, sun-dried into a sealed jar after sealing and placed in the shade.

After one year, you can take it out and eat it, the longer the peel is kept, the stronger the flavor, so the better the peel is, the longer you want to put it, if you want to put it farther away, you need to take it out in the sun every six months to prevent the growth of mildew, and then seal it and store it, and put it in a few decades is not a problem at all. Chenpi has a wide range of uses, in addition to when the medicinal herbs, can also be used as daily ingredients to eat, in addition to direct brewing as a tea, Chenpi can also be used to cook porridge, soup, cooking, stuffing, making sugar water, when the seasoning to go to fishy flavor, and so on, the role of a variety of, practicality is very strong.