Effects of Citrus aurantium Citri Reticulatae: Breaking down Qi and eliminating stagnation, resolving phlegm and dispersing lumps. Effects: For stagnation and internal stagnation, plumpness and distension, diarrhea and dysentery, inability to pass stool, phlegm stagnation and gas obstruction, paralysis of the chest, knotting of the chest, and prolapse of the organs. Citrus Aurantium Effects: Regulating Qi, relieving stagnation and eliminating flatulence. Effects: For stagnation of Qi in the chest and hypochondrium, distension and pain, food stagnation, phlegm and drink, and prolapse of organs.

Citrus aurantium: remove impurities, wash, moisten, thinly slice, dry. Citrus aurantium: remove impurities, wash, moisten through, cut thin slices, dry and sieve the broken down pith core.

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The Hovenia dulcis of the Rites of Zhou and the Classic of Mountains and Seas is the Hovenia dulcis of the Chinese Botanical Records according to its geographical distribution. Until the ninth century A.D., the Hovenia contained in the ancient Chinese books, most of them referred to the same plant from Su Song "Tu Jing Ben Cao" (1061 A.D.) to the Ming and Qing dynasties of the herbs called Hovenia (including Hovenia and Hovenia shells).

Sometimes also refers to certain species of citrus, such as orange, or even sour orange, Shaoxing calibrated "by the history of the evidence class prepared emergency Materia Medica" (1159 AD) and the "Four Series of Journals" photocopies of the Jintai and A Zi version of the two books of the Ruzhou Hovenia map have been recognized as this Zhi understanding of Hovenia, as for the Shaoxing calibrated version of this and a version of the Chenggongzhou Hovenia map of the two are somewhat different, but the two are hairless fruits.

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