Orange leaf

Orange leaves (compendium)

[synonym] Orange Leaf (Diannan materia medica).

[source] it is the leaves of many kinds of tangerines, such as Fuju or Zhuju. See "orange" for details.

[collection] it can be collected all year round, and it is better to collect from December to February of the next year.

[herbal medicine] the dried leaves are mostly curly, flat and long oval or oval in shape, 5-8 cm in length and 2-4 cm in width. The surface is grayish green or yellowish green, smooth, and many transparent glandular spots can be seen in the light. It is thick, hard, brittle and easy to crack. It is fragrant and bitter.

[chemical constituents] the leaves of Wenzhou tangerine contain 51 mg% vitamin C, and also contain many kinds of carbohydrates, such as glucose, fructose, sucrose, starch and cellulose. The content of vitamin C is higher at flowering, decreases gradually at maturity, and increases again after picking.

All kinds of orange leaves contain volatile oil.

[flavor] bitter, pungent and smooth.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "warm in nature, bitter and pungent in taste. "

② "Compendium": "bitter, flat, non-toxic. "

Zhu Zhenheng: "entering the foot Jueyin, the Qi of liver meridian is divided. "

Functions and indications: Soothing the liver, promoting Qi, resolving phlegm, removing swelling and toxin. Treatment of hypochondriac pain, breast carbuncle, lung carbuncle, cough, chest diaphragmatic fullness, hernia.

① Zhu Zhenheng: "guide the chest against Qi, line liver qi, detumescence and toxin, breast carbuncle hypochondriac pain, use it to line the meridians. "

② "Diannan Materia Medica": "Xingqi Xiaotan, Jianggan Qi. Treat cough, hernia, etc. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-5 yuan (fresh 2-4 Liang); or mashed juice.

[selection] ① cough treatment: orange leaves (honey on the back, baked over fire), fried in water. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

② Treatment of lung carbuncle: green orange leaves (wash), mash juice, take it, spit out pus blood. (good recipe for experience)

③ Treatment of typhoid chest diaphragmatic fullness: orange leaf mashing and face ironing. (Ben Jing Feng Yuan)

④ Cure hernia: orange leaf 10, 5 (bake). Take it in water. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

⑤ Treatment of edema: a large grasp of fresh orange leaves. Fried sweet wine clothes. (secret recipe of Guiyang)

⑥ Treatment of Qitong, Qizhang: orange leaves mashed, fried hot outsourcing, or fried. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

⑦ Kill Ascaris lumbricoides, pinworm: fresh orange leaf four Liang boiled water service. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

[famous scholar's discussion] ① in the book of Materia Medica classic, it is said that "orange leaf, which is not recorded in ancient and modern books, can disperse Yang Ming and Jueyin meridians and stagnate Qi. Women are jealous of milk, internal and external blowing, milk rock and mastitis. It is effective to use it. All the syndromes are caused by the two meridians. "

② According to the collection of materia medica: "orange leaf is a medicine for soothing the liver, dispersing adverse Qi and relieving hypochondriac pain. According to Danxi. This medicine is bitter and astringent in common, with pungent fragrance and warm powder in common. All diseases, such as blood stasis and gas stagnation, phlegm and saliva fire, hypochondriac pain, breast carbuncle, beriberi, swelling and toxin, chest and diaphragm adverse Qi, etc., can be cured by hand. "

Chinese PinYin : Ju Ye