Can Buddha’s hand treat gastritis and ulcers?

  Buddha’s hand, also known as nine-clawed wood, five-fingered orange and bergamot. Buddha’s hand not only has a high ornamental value, but also has valuable medicinal and economic value. The roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of Foshou can be used as medicine, which has various medicinal effects such as regulating qi and resolving phlegm, stopping vomiting and decongesting, draining the liver and strengthening the spleen, and harmonizing the stomach.  Foshou [Source] is the dried fruit of Foshou, family Rutaceae.  Alias】Hand orange, nine-clawed wood, five-fingered orange, buddha’s hand citrus [Taste and Attribution】Pungent, bitter, sour, warm. Inducing the liver, spleen, stomach and lung meridians.  Functions and Indications】Radicalizes the liver and Qi, harmonizes the stomach and relieves pain, dries dampness and dissolves phlegm. It is used for liver and stomach Qi stagnation, chest distension and pain, gastric and epigastric fullness, little food and vomiting, cough and phlegm.  Dosage and Administration】Decoction, 3-10g. [Selection Guide] This product is an oval or oval-shaped sheet, often crinkled or curled, 6-250px long, 3-175px wide, 0.2-10px thick. 5 finger-like valves, slightly narrower at the base, with some visible fruiting pedicel marks. The outer skin is yellow-green or orange-yellow, with wrinkles and oil spots. Flesh light yellow-white, scattered with uneven linear or dotted vascular bundles. The texture is hard and brittle, pliable after moisture. Aroma, taste slightly sweet and then bitter. The yellow skin and white flesh with strong aroma is the best.  Storage and preservation】Store in a cool and dry place, prevent mold and moth.  Note: Use with caution in cases of yin deficiency and fire, without qi stagnation.  [Experimental prescription] chronic gastritis Buddha’s hand 20g, first add water decoction soup and then remove the dregs to take the juice and then with 100g of round-grained rice porridge, porridge cooked with brown sugar appropriate amount (also can not be added), divided into 2 times a day.  Plum kernel gas Buddha’s hand 30g, white wine, sugar in the right amount. Soak Buddha’s hand in white wine in a bowl, put it in a pot and steam it, take it out, cover it with a layer of white sugar, drink an appropriate amount of wine, then finish the Buddha’s hand piece.  Chronic bronchitis honey 50g, bergamot 30g, water decoction for tea; or honey, Yee sugar, onion juice each equal parts boiled and eaten in portions.  Stomach ulcer bergamot 20g decoction, remove the dregs and set aside. 100g of japonica rice with water to cook porridge, add a little rock sugar after the porridge is cooked, and into the bergamot soup, later can be eaten, 2 times a day.  Stomach pain bergamot 15g, Chen Pi 12g, ginger 2 slices. Decoction 1 dose a day, divided into morning and evening.  Excessive leucorrhea, 20g of Buddha’s hand, lOOg of pig intestine, wash and cut the pig intestine, put it in a pot with Buddha’s hand, add appropriate amount of water and stew it with moderate fire, add salt to taste, take it in 2 doses, l times a day.  For phlegm and asthma, take 15g of Forsythia, 6g of Chuanbei mother, 10g of ginger juice and 50g of honey. cut Forsythia into fine julienne strips, research and finely grind Forsythia, put them in a bowl together, add ginger juice and honey and mix well, put them in a pot and stew them for 30 minutes with water, take them in 2 doses, 1 dose per day.