Is dried orange peel “tangerine peel”? Tangerine peel so eat right not to hurt the body!

I don’t know, you have their own friends around the orange peel? At home on the balcony, the house table is orange peel, I remember when I was a child next door neighbor grandma would like to sun their own orange peel, said the orange peel is good, a tan can become tangerine peel! Yes, that’s what we buy at the Chinese medicine drugstore — tangerine peel.

There are a lot of people like to use new orange peel or more than 3 years of orange peel bubble water to drink, first is not very healthy, air after the direct bubble water to drink, and then sour acerbity taste is not good to drink, so, homemade “tangerine peel”, how effective?

Yishou jun today to tell you, their air drying of the orange peel after all can become Chinese medicine “tangerine peel”!

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Not all orange peels are tangerine peels!

The storage period of tangerine peel is to pay attention to, it needs to be placed at least more than 3 years, so as to reduce the dryness among them, to achieve the effect of wide in regulating qi, strengthening spleen and stomach.

The longer the peel is stored, the better the medicine usually is. “Shennong Ben Cao Jing” has mentioned “orange peel in medicine to the aged for good, so the name tangerine peel, GUI old.

Tangerine peel is a kind of Chinese medicine with the same origin of medicine and food. It is fragrant and slightly bitter. It is an indication of abdominal distension and fullness, lack of food and vomiting and diarrhea, cough and phlegm. Pharmacological studies have shown that tangerine peel has good medicinal value in cardiovascular system, immunity, anti-oxidation and anti-tumor.

The chemical composition of orange peel is mainly flavonoids, in addition, it also contains limonin, alkaloids, essential oils and trace elements. The tangerine peel made at home may have pesticide residues on the peel, and the drying time is usually only a few days. During the process of sealing and improper storage, rot and mildew may occur. After consumption, it may cause excessive heat, diarrhea and even more serious health problems.

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His medicine is precious, but his medicine is precious

The tangerine peel gets better and the tangerine peel from Guangdong is the best of all. Fifteen years old, tangerine peel is in “in those days” tangerine peel, the longer the more precious!

3~8 years: Tangerine peel of 3 to 8 years is relatively short. Usually, the endothelium of tangerine peel of this kind of years is Snow White, while its appearance is bright red or dark red. It smells a pungent aroma and tastes sour.

10~20 years: The tangerine peel of this year has taken on an ancient red or brownish red color on the surface, and the inside is no longer white. It smells refreshing, refreshing, and no longer sour.

20 + years: Tangerine peel at this age has become brown, or black. The smell is very mellow, very precious.

So Yishou jun more suggest you buy tangerine peel directly to the pharmacy to use. If you really want to homemade tangerine peel at home, it must pay attention to cleaning, preservation of these two aspects, once mildew, deterioration, can not be used again.

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How does tangerine peel drink after all, just do not have health care action to hurt a body?

The most common use of dried tangerine peel is to soak water, but even this seemingly simple way of eating has its virtues. If not done right, its health value will be greatly reduced. Correct method of orange peel water preparation:

Step 1 – Wash the medicine

Put the tangerine peel in a cup, add water to brew, and then pour away the first bubble of water. This can remove the dust and impurities in the peel, but also conducive to the release of effective substances.

Step 2 – Boil water

Put the dried tangerine peel into the pot, boil water and drink.

Traditional Chinese medicine says “one hundred years of tangerine peel, thousands of years of ginseng”, stored years of tangerine peel, its health care value is enough to compare with ginseng, if coupled with a few good partners, the effect doubled, the effect is better!

Yishou jun tell the big guy a few diet therapy small methods, we can use daily at home:

Tangerine peel + ginger peel

Drop uric acid

Ingredients: tangerine peel 5~ 10g, ginger peel 5~ 10g

Practice: Clean after boiling water instead of tea can drink.

Tangerine peel and ginger, can promote the excretion of uric acid in the body, daily tea drinking, help to prevent gout.

Orange peel and cinnamon

Remove cold blood

Ingredients: tangerine peel 5 g, cinnamon 5 g

How to do it: Boil the tangerine peel in 500ml water, then pour it into the cinnamon powder and let it simmer for 5 minutes.

Cassia bark has the functions of warming stomach and dispelling cold, activating blood to relax tendons, relieving pulse and relieving pain. When combined with dried tangerine peel, the effect of dispelling cold and activating blood is better. It is very suitable for women who have dysmenorrhea or are afraid of cold during menstrual period and have breast tenderness.

However, it should be noted that although tangerine peel is good, not everyone can eat it. Resemble the stomach hot crowd with yellow and greasy coating on the tongue, the hot cough crowd with yellow and white phlegm, insomnia much dream accompanies the Yin deficient crowd with dry throat and qi deficient, unfavorable edible tangerine peel!