Citrus aurantium dulcis

Citrus aurantium is the dried young fruit of sour orange and sweet orange, from the point of view of Chinese medicine, its nature is slightly cold, taste pungent, bitter, sour, belonging to the spleen, stomach two meridians, itself has to break the qi to eliminate accumulation, cough and phlegm, and stopping diarrhea, laxative effect. First of all, it can treat all the evidence of qi stagnation in the human body, if the qi stagnation in the middle jiao, the patient is often manifested as epigastric distension, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and some patients can also be manifested as constipation, the tongue of such patients is pale, the tongue moss is white, the Hovenia dulcis itself has a very good role of qi stagnation, it can help improve the epigastric distension of the patient’s symptoms. Hovenia dulcis itself has a good moisturizing effect on the lungs, for long-term illness, especially after upper respiratory tract infections, patients with chronic cough, has a very good therapeutic effect, for tuberculosis after the leftover dry cough, has a very good cough phlegm effect. In addition, hedgehog itself can moisten the bowel, for food accumulation caused by constipation, has a good therapeutic effect, at the same time, modern research has confirmed that hedgehog contains volatile oil, flavonoids, can help the human body to promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, to help the human body to improve the symptoms of constipation. It is worth noting that the volatile oil contained in Hovenia cepa can excite the smooth muscle of the uterus, increase the tension of the uterine smooth muscle, for pregnant women should be used with caution, so as not to cause unnecessary abortion.