How to eat tangerine peel in the healthy industry? Several tangerine peel diet prescription recommended

Tangerine peel —— “Chinese national snacks”, sour and sweet, eat into mouth has a strong citrus fruit aroma, not only children like it, adults also like. Common tangerine peel snacks are tangerine peel plum, honey tangerine peel, nine-made tangerine peel, pickled tangerine peel, snow tangerine peel, tangerine peel sugar, tangerine peel drink and so on. 

In daily life, appropriate eating amount of tangerine peel snacks can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, which can play a role in promoting digestion, especially motion sickness, nausea or eating greasy foods without appetite, you can appropriately use tangerine peel snacks to relieve it.

Tangerine peel is not only a snack, but also has the reputation of “century-old tangerine peel, millennia-old ginseng”, which shows tangerine peel has very high medicinal value.

Tangerine peel is the dried and mature peel of tangerine and is the cultivated varieties in the rutaceae family, which is divided into “tangerine peel”and “guang tangerine peel". Guang tangerine peel to the Xinhui of tangerine peel as genuine, but also to the aged collection as treasures. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that tangerine peel is warm-natured, bitter taste, belongs to spleen, lung meridian, has the effect of regulating vital energy and strengthening spleen, drying dampness and eliminating phlegm, and can be used to treat diseases of abdominal distention, vomiting and diarrhea with little food, cough and phlegm.

“Compendium of Materia Medica” records that tangerine peel “treats all diseases is always takes its function of regulating vital energy and drying dampness”. It is tonifying if using with tonic drug, is purging if laxative drug, is rising if ascending drug, and is falling if descending drug. In a word, tangerine peel can coordinate with other medicines to make them play a better effect.

    "one tael tangerine peel just as one tael gold, hundred-aged tangerine peel more valuable than golden!" The longer the tangerine peel is aged, the “bitter, astringent, spicy” taste will gradually reduce, the better the quality and efficacy.

Modern pharmacological studies have shown that tangerine peel contains volatile oil, hesperidin, vitamin B, C and other components, which have the functions of expectorant, digestive promotion, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-oxidation and free radical removal. 

Tangerine peel has another title of the king of diet in health industry, below are the several tangerine peel diet-prescription introduce to you: 

Tangerine pu-erh tea

Ingredients: tangerine peel 2g, pu-erh ripe tea 7g.

Drinking method: put tangerine peel and pu-erh tea into the cup, add boiling water to soak for 10 to 15 seconds, pour the tea out, and then add the boiling water again wait for about 2 minutes to drink.

Efficacy: regulating vital energy (Qi) and eliminating phlegm, eliminating accumulation and stagnation, suitable for stomach full abdominal distension, phlegm cough, obesity and other people.

Tangerine peel with rose flowers tea

Efficacy: soothing liver and relieving depression, regulating vital energy (Qi) and stomach. It is suitable for people with depression of vital energy (Qi), high pressure, irritable and depressed mood.

Tangerine with four flavor herb soup

Ingredients: tangerine peel 5g, Tuckahoe 10g, lotus seeds 10g, yam 10g, Gorgon Euryale 10g.

Drinking method: add Tuckahoe, lotus seeds, yam and Gorgon Eurasians into a pot with appropriate amount of water, boil on high fire after soak for 15 minutes, add tangerine peel and turn to low heat for 15 minutes after bring to a boil, finally stew for 15 minutes, then serve.

Efficacy: invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach, promoting the circulation of vital energy (Qi) and resolving dampness. It is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, heavy dampness, fatigue, usually easy stomach distention and tooth marks on the tongue.

Tangerine peel with hawthorn tea

Ingredients: tangerine peel 5g, hawthorn 10g. 

Drinking method: Put tangerine peel and hawthorn into a teapot with appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat after soak for 15 minutes, and serve.

Efficacy: invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach, promoting digestion and relieving accumulation. It is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, stomachache and distention, indigestion of diet, heavy smell of mouth and thick tongue coating.

Tangerine peel with longan flesh tea

Ingredients: tangerine peel 5g, longan flesh 10g.

Drinking method: put tangerine peel and longan flesh into a teapot with boiling water, stew for 10 minutes and serve.

Efficacy: invigorating vital energy (Qi) and spleen, nourishing blood and calming nerves. It is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, decreased appetite, palpitation, insomnia and fatigue.

Tangerine peel with monk fruit tea

Ingredients: tangerine peel 5g, monk fruit 10g.

Drinking method: put tangerine peel and monk fruit into a teapot with boiling water, stew for 10 minutes and serve.

Efficacy: releasing lung and clearing heat, relieving cough and expelling phlegm, moistening bowel. Used for lung dryness and cough phlegm, dry throat and mouth, regulating bowel and stomach and so on.

Warm reminding tips:

1. Tangerine peel is divided into tangerine peel and Guang tangerine peel , highly recommended to choose more than 3 years aged of Guang tangerine peel to brewing tea, which will taste better and more effect.

2. Tangerine peel is warm-natured and dryness, which is not very suitable for people with heat constitution and yin fluid deficiency constitution.

3. Tangerine peel is mainly used for cold cough, it is not suitable for taking tangerine peel if you are hot cough.