orange

orange

(edible materia medica)

[synonyms] Orange (Shanglin Fu), yellow orange (Zhang Ji), golden orange (Su Shi), golden ball and Swan shell (compendium).

[source] it is the fruit of orange, a Rutaceae plant.

[plant morphology] Orange, also known as crab orange.

Small evergreen trees, up to 4-6 m high. The branches are slender with long spiny needles. Leaves alternate; elliptic or ovate elliptic, 3-3.5 cm long, 3 cm wide, apex pointed, slightly concave, base round or cuneate, leaf margin slightly undulate, obtusely serrated or entire, veins inconspicuous; petiole broad winged. Flowers simple, axillary, medium large; calyx green, 5-lobed; petals 5, white, slightly tubular; disk annular. The fruit is slightly oblate, 4-7 cm in diameter, with thin stalk and persistent calyx; the peel is rough, wrinkled, yellow when ripe, easy to peel off, about 4 mm thick, fragrant; the pulp sac is 10 petals, kidney shaped, the middle column is small and full, the flesh and juice are light yellow, and the taste is very sour. Seeds about 20, ovate and large, cotyledons white, single embryo. It blooms in spring. The fruit period is autumn.

It is cultivated in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou.

The peel (orange peel) and core (orange core) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] the fruits are harvested when they are ripe in October

[chemical constituents] Orange contains hesperidin, citric acid, malic acid, succinic acid, sugars, pectin and vitamins. It also contains 0.1-0.3% volatile oil, and its main components are? Taural, limonene, etc. It was also reported that the volatile oil contained more than 70 kinds of terpenoids, aldehydes, ketones, phenols, alcohols, esters, acids and coumarins.

Sour and cool.

① Kaibao materia medica: "it tastes sour. "

② "Yinshan Zhengzheng": "it tastes sweet and sour, non-toxic. "

③ Yucatalpa medicinal solution: "bitter and sour taste, slightly cool. "

[Guijing] yuluo Yaojie: "start with Taiyin lung meridian. "

[function indications] it can stop vomiting, widen chest diaphragm, eliminate gall, relieve alcohol, kill fish and crab poison.

① According to the edible Materia Medica, it is said that "it can promote the general mood, cure gall Qi, and kill fish and insects. "

② "Kaibao Materia Medica": "flesh, to nausea, wash away the acid juice, finely cut and salt honey fried, eat, to stomach floating wind. "

③ "Yucatalpa medicine solution": "broad chest, benefit Qi, relieve alcohol. "

④ "Orange cake: eliminate stubborn phlegm, reduce Qi, harmony, appetizer; broad diaphragm, invigorate spleen, detoxify fish and crab poison, sober up. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction. External use: air dry and smoke.

[taboo] 1. Kaibao materia medica: 1. Don't eat too much. "

② "The book meets the source": "malaria, cold and hot fasting. "

③ According to the compendium of compendium, those with Qi deficiency and rash should not take it. "

[selection] hemorrhoids swelling and pain: air dry oranges every other year and smoke them in the barrel. (medical abstract)

Chinese PinYin : Cheng Zi