Drying orange peel, also known as Chenpi, is actually a Chinese medicine. The Stranger's family is very fond of this kind of thing, and usually when eating various orange fruits, such as sugar orange, honey orange, Huangyan orange, capital citrus, navel orange, ponkan, the intact and undamaged peel will be kept well, and then dried to make Chenpi. Moreover, after a long time of practice, it is found that when choosing orange peels, it is better to choose the ones with thinner skins, so that it is easier to be dried and sun-dried, easy to be preserved and not easy to be moldy.
However, it is said that if it is a real traditional Chinese medicine sense of the Chenpi, the survival period should be more than three years, less than three years can only be called Chen Guo Pei or orange peel, the medicinal properties of the poor point.
As a medicine, Chenpi's medicinal properties: pungent, bitter, warm. It belongs to the spleen and lung meridian. It has the effect of regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm. It is mainly used for the treatment of epigastric distension and fullness, poor food and vomiting and diarrhea, cough and phlegm. And the pectin in the peel has a preventive effect on atherosclerosis caused by high-fat diet.
On weekdays, if you have symptoms of coughing and phlegm, you can cut the Chenpi shredded soak water to drink, the volatile oil contained in Chenpi has a stimulating passive expectorant effect, so that phlegm is easy to cough up. There will be a hint of bitterness and astringency in the water, if you are not used to drinking it, you can add some rock sugar to flavor it.
In case of indigestion, stomach bloating, loss of appetite, can also be used to drink Chenpi water, Chenpi contains volatile oil, the gastrointestinal tract has a mild stimulating effect, can promote the secretion of digestive juices, to eliminate the intestinal tract of the accumulation of gas.
And you can also use the peel to cook porridge, also has the same effect.
Chenpi not only has the above medicinal value, but also a traditional flavorings, cooking properly put some, not only can play its medicinal effect, but also the following role:
Burning vegetables put Chenpi, usually in the burning of chickens, ducks, fish, pigs, cows, sheep and other meat dishes. Chenpi unique pungent flavor can lift the fishy taste on the meat, just like onion, ginger, garlic and other ingredients, but also with a orange peel unique sweet flavor. If you are usually not accustomed to onion, ginger and garlic and other flavors of friends, in cooking meat dishes, you may want to try to put a few slices of sun-dried withered peels.
Moreover, the array of skins have the effect of lifting the grease, decomposition of fat, stewed meat can not only make the meat easier to stew, and eat up and not too greasy, both healthy and help digestion.
So, usually we eat oranges, you may also want to keep the orange peel, sun-dried spare.