What are the effects and functions of Citrus aurantium?

Zhishi is a traditional Chinese medicinal material with very high medicinal value. There are detailed records of this medicine in the history books of traditional Chinese medicine, especially its various prescriptions, which can be effectively used to treat some diseases and even play a preventive role. If everyone knows the effects and functions of Zhishi, and seriously regulates and improves their health, they will not be easily threatened and harmed by diseases.

1. Zhishi is used to treat chest pain: Zhishi is ground into powder and taken three times a day and once at night. (《Filling the gap behind the elbow》).

2. Zhishi is used to treat sudden chest and diaphragm pain after typhoid fever: Zhishi is stir-fried with bran and ground into powder. Take 2 qian of rice drink twice a day. (“A Brief Prescription to Help the Public”).

3. Zhishi treats abdominal distension, helps digestion, and strengthens the stomach: 2 liang of Atractylodes macrocephala, 1 liang of Zhishi (fried with bran until yellow, remove the pulp). Grind the above ingredients into very fine powder, wrap them in lotus leaves and stir-fry them, then use rice to make them into pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 50 pills each time, mostly with white soup, at any time. (Zhishu Pills from "Differentiation of Internal and External Injuries").

4. Zhishi is used to treat chest pain, abdominal distension and qi stagnation in the chest, fullness in the chest, and pain in the hypochondrium: 4 pieces of Zhishi, 4 liang of Magnolia officinalis, half a liter of Xiebai, 1 liang of cinnamon twig, and 1 piece of Zhilou fruit (pounded). Take the above five ingredients, add five liters of water, first boil the Zhishi and Magnolia officinalis, take out two liters, remove the dregs, add other ingredients, boil for several times, divide into three portions and take while warm. (Zhishi Xiebai Guizhi Decoction from Synopsis of the Golden Chamber).

5. Zhishi can treat cold accumulation and rectal prolapse: one Zhishi. Grind it on stone to make it smooth, drill it and install the handle, apply honey, and heat it to make it warm. Change it again when it is cold, and stop it from shrinking. (Gan Jin Fang).

6. Zhishi treats abdominal pain after childbirth, restlessness and insomnia: Zhishi (burned until black, cut too fast) and Shaoyao in equal parts. The pestle is used to scatter. Take a square inch of the medicine three times a day. It is also used to treat carbuncle and pus, which can be eliminated with wheat porridge. (Golden Chamber Synopsis) Zhishi Shaoyao Powder).

7. To treat chronic diarrhea in children, indigestion, and weakness that cannot bear large amounts of medicine: 2 liang of Zhishi. Treat the lower sieve. Children over three years old should obey the command of the square inch needle. Children who are younger can obey it at will, three times a day. (Zhishi Powder from Qianjin Fang).

8. To treat intestinal wind and bleeding: 0.5 catty of Citrus aurantium (fried with bran and remove the pulp), 0.5 catty of Astragalus membranaceus (washed, crushed and ground into powder). Take two qian of Miqinfei at the right time. If it is difficult to swallow, make it into pills with paste and take thirty to fifty pills with soup. (Experienced Prescriptions).

The above article gives a clear introduction to the effects and functions of Citrus aurantium, and I believe everyone has a clear idea of ​​it. Each Chinese medicine needs to be used with caution. Only by taking it into account its specific effects and indications and combining it with your own physical condition can you truly use it correctly, so that it can have a better effect and improve your health.