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Tangerine
Peel (ju
pi)
Pericarpium
Citri Reticulatae
Properties:
The herb is pungent and bitter in flavour, warm in nature,
acting on the spleen and lung channels. Being pungent for
promoting circulation of Qi, bitter and warm for
eliminating dampness, and aromatic for enlivening the
spleen, the herb has mild effects of eliminating Qi
stagnation in the spleen and stomach and phlegm-dampness
in the spleen and lung. It is often used to treat Qi
stagnation, distention and fullness in the spleen and
stomach, retention and stagnation of dampness in the
middle Jiao, cough and asthma due to excessive phlegm in
the lung channel, and other syndromes.
Effects:
Promoting circulation of Qi, strengthening the spleen,
eliminating dampness and relieving phlegm.
Indications:
1. The herb is
often used combination with aucklandia root, amomum fruit,
nutgrass flatsedge rhizome and other herbs for promoting
circulation of Qi and normalizing function of the stomach,
to treat gastro-abdominal distention, anorexia, vomiting
and diarrhea caused by Qi stagnation in the spleen and
stomach; with hawthorn fruit, medicated leaven, unripen
bitter orange and other herbs for eliminating stagnated
food, to treat dyspepsia, Qi stagnation, distention, acid
regurgitation and indigestion; and with dangshen, white
atractylodes rhizome and other herbs for strengthening the
spleen and supplementing Qi, to treat abdominal
distention, anorexia and loose stool due to spleen
deficiency.
2. The herb is
often used in combination with pinellia tuber, poria and
liquorica for strengthening the effects of eliminating
dampness and phlegm, such as Erchen Decoction, to treat
excessive cold-phlegm and damp-phlegm in the interior,
cough, abundant expectoraion and asthma; and with
atractylodes rhizome, magnolia bark and other herbs for
eliminating dampness, relieving phlegm, disintegrating
masses and removing food retention, such as Pingwei
powder, to treat retention of dampness in the middle Jiao,
vomiting, hiccup, diarrhea, oppressed feeling in the chest
and greasy fur.
Dosage and
Administration: 3-10g.
Appendix:
Pummelo Peel. The
drug is the peel of the unripen or nearly ripen fruit of
the plant Citrus grandis, Tomentosa'or C. grandis (L.)
Osbeck of family Rutaceae. Bitter and pungent in taste,
warm in nature, and having effects of promoting Qi
circulation and relieving phlegm, the herb is indicated
for Qi stagnation, distention and fullness in the spleen
and stomach, abundant expectoration, cough and other
syndromes. Pummelo peel is superior to tangerine peel in
the nature of warm-dryness. Therefore, it is appropriaate
to use Pummelo peel for patients with abundant
expectoration and cough but with no stagnated heat in the
interior. Its dosage is 3-10g.
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