Chenpi can be taken by cold brewing, but cold brewing is not recommended. Cold brewing is not the correct way to use Chen Pi because it is usually taken in decoction and cold brewing may not release the active ingredients of Chen Pi completely, thus not achieving the therapeutic efficacy equivalent to medicine.
Chenpi is pungent and bitter in taste, warm in nature, with the effects of drying dampness and resolving phlegm (expelling dampness by drying dampness and dissolving phlegm), regulating qi and broadening the chest, invigorating the spleen and promoting the flow of qi, it can treat the distension of the epigastrium (stomach and abdomen), eructation (hiccups), cough, coughing up phlegm, vomiting, and loss of appetite, and other diseases.
1. Qi stagnation: Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae has the effect of promoting the flow of qi, and is used for the distension of the epigastric region caused by stagnation of qi, vomiting and nausea, and can be used with the combination of Hovenia Citri Reticulatae and Mucuna Pruriens.
2. Phlegm and cough: Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae can dry dampness and resolve phlegm, regulate the lungs and relieve cough, used for cough and wheezing caused by the loss of lung declination and internal stagnation of phlegm and dampness, and can be used in conjunction with Semenxia, Poria and other drugs that can dry dampness and resolve phlegm.
If you need to take this medicine, should be under the guidance of a doctor.