Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae and Maitake Maitake in water, generally does not have obvious medicinal effects, if you want to be used for the treatment or prevention of disease, you need to be boiled in water and taken. 1. Chenpi and maitake use the general way of soaking, it is difficult to dissolve the active ingredients, so soak water to drink no obvious effect. If you want to play the efficacy of the drug, you have to boil the two in water for about 20 minutes to half an hour, filter the juice, in order to effectively dissolve the drug ingredients. Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae is mainly used for strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm (removing phlegm from the body by drying dampness), and is used for diseases caused by spleen qi deficiency and phlegm-dampness, such as loss of appetite, fatigue, coughing and phlegm, obesity, chest tightness, diarrhea, dizziness, etc. It is pungent, bitter and warm. This product is pungent, bitter and dry, warm can help heat, so there is solid heat, tongue red and less fluid should be used with caution. 2. Maitong, with the main effects of nourishing yin and generating fluids, moistening the lungs and clearing the heart, can be used to treat lung yin deficiency (deficiency of yin fluid in the lungs) resulting in dry cough, dry throat, even coughing up blood, thirst, dry and sore throat; heart yin deficiency resulting in heartburn, insomnia, dry stools and other conditions. This product is contraindicated for those with deficiency of cold in the spleen and stomach (weak and cold spleen and stomach), loose food (thin and unformed feces), as well as those with external wind-cold and phlegm-damp cough. Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae and Maitong, in general, are not used together because Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae is generally not suitable for use in Yin deficiency without phlegm-dampness; Maitong may aggravate phlegm-dampness, so the two are not usually used together. However, it should be noted that Chen Pi and Maidong are both traditional Chinese medicines, and it is best to take them under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, so as not to take the wrong medicines, which may cause misunderstanding and damage to the body.