Tangerine red is not recommended to take in water, soak the active ingredients of the drug precipitation is limited, the use of the general decoction of soup or made into pills, powder to take, should be used in accordance with medical advice.
Tangerine red for the rue family plant orange and its cultivated varieties of the dry outer layer of the rind, taste pungent, bitter, warm, attributed to the lungs, spleen meridian, with a wide in the qi, phlegm and dry dampness of the efficacy of the food for the accumulation of injuries to the wine (indigestion of food and stagnation of the accumulation of the stomach, due to excessive drinking and disease), cough and phlegm, vomiting and distension, and so on.
Tangerine red can be used to treat phlegm and cough by combining with licorice. It can be used to treat cough with phlegm for a long time by combining with half-summer and ginger in decoction.
For prolonged cough with Qi deficiency, Yin deficiency and dry cough, it is forbidden to take Tangerine Red. Drugs should be used rationally under the doctor’s diagnosis, do not self-medication, so as not to cause damage to the body.