Tangerine red refers to the dried outer rind of the tangerine and its cultivated varieties in the Brassicaceae family. It is customary to refer to tangerine red as orange-like tangerine red, which is often referred to as orange peel.

Tangerine red was first recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", usually picked in the late fall and early winter after the fruit is ripe, and then peeled off the outer pericarp with a knife, to be dried and then chopped, most of them are irregular long thin slices, the surface of the yellow-brown or orange-red, glossy, densely covered with oil dots, gas aroma, taste slightly bitter, slightly numb.

Expanded Information

Difference Between Tangerine Red and Tangerine Red

The two have different efficacy and scope of application.

Tangerine red is warm and slow and on the road, long for regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm, can be used to spleen and stomach stagnation of the chest and diaphragm distension and fullness of food and wine, but also to treat phlegm and dampness congestion of the lungs of the chest and diaphragm fullness, wheezing full of phlegm.

Hua Tangerine Red grows in the environment of Huazhou, Guangdong Province, and the soil of Huazhou is rich in mineral pores (礞石) (礞石 for the treatment of phlegmatic fetid junction of medicines), in such a special ecological environment, the formation of Hua Tangerine Red is warm and dry, and the drying of dampness and phlegm is stronger than that of Tangerine Red, and the power of moving qi and strengthening the spleen is not as strong as that of Tangerine Red. Clinically, it is used for coughing with phlegm, white phlegm and sticky phlegm.

People's health network - orange red, orange red what is the difference?