Can tangerine peel remove bad breath?

In daily life, many of our friends are lazy, not only in work, but also in daily life. They are too lazy to even wash their faces or brush their teeth, which results in some oral diseases. More importantly, it causes bad breath, which greatly affects their daily social interactions. Especially women who love beauty should learn to prevent bad breath. So, can tangerine peel remove bad breath?

Orange peel, also known as dried tangerine peel, is a good medicine in traditional Chinese medicine. It is a food and medicine at the same time. As the name suggests, the word "Chen" means that the orange peel has been air-dried for more than one year. When it is fresh, not only can the volatile oil in it play the role, but other ingredients can also play other pharmacological effects.

One of the ingredients in tangerine peel is hesperidin. Pharmacological studies have shown that this ingredient has a positive effect on liver diseases. The specific mechanisms are rather complex and numerous, so I will not elaborate on them one by one here. The experimental results confirm that this ingredient can reduce the mortality rate of mice with liver failure. In addition, tangerine peel also contains some flavonoids, such as nobiletin, and experiments have confirmed that nobiletin can inhibit the proliferation of lung cancer cells. Also, the volatile oils in the tangerine peel just mentioned include one called limonene, which has antibacterial effects.

It is recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that oranges have the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving coughs. In fact, it refers to the orange peel. If you eat too many oranges when you have a cough, it will make the condition worse. Now I would like to introduce two orange peel cough-relieving recipes to you: one is to make tea with fresh orange peel and white sugar to moisten the lungs and relieve cough, commonly known as orange peel tea; friends who like to drink porridge can also add orange peel when cooking porridge, which not only tastes fragrant but also can stimulate appetite, and is suitable for people with cough and phlegm.