Citrus aurantium and Citrus aurantium are traditional Chinese medicines, for the same plant different growth period of the fruit, can be eaten together, there is no relevant clinical information to prove that the two have contraindications.
Hovenia dulcis is a plant sour orange and its cultivated varieties of close to ripe fruit. Citrus aurantium has the efficacy of promoting stagnation and eliminating accumulation, regulating qi and relieving chest pain. It is used in treating stagnant Qi in the chest and ribs, food stagnation (accumulation of food in the stomach due to indigestion), phlegm and drink (pathological products of impaired water metabolism), fullness and pain, and prolapse of organs. Use with caution in pregnant women.
Citrus aurantium is the dried young fruit of the plant lime or sweet orange. Citrus aurantium has the efficacy of dissolving phlegm and removing lumps, breaking up qi and eliminating stagnation (breaking up qi stagnation and eliminating food accumulation). It is used for treating plumpness (stomach fullness and discomfort) and distension, diarrhea and dysentery, inability to pass stools, phlegm stagnation and Qi obstruction, chest paralysis (stuffy pain in the chest), knotting of the chest, and prolapse of the organs. Caution is advised for pregnant women and those with weak spleen and stomach.
From the instructions of Hovenia dulcis and Hovenia ciliata, there is no contraindication to the use of the two, if the condition requires, can be used together under the guidance of a physician.