What are the effects and functions of Citrus aurantium?

We still need to be cautious when using traditional Chinese medicine. Don’t take it casually just because you think it has few side effects. The efficacy and effects of each Chinese medicine are different, so it is important to prescribe the right medicine for the right condition. Citrus aurantium is a relatively common Chinese medicine. Many Chinese patent medicines contain this ingredient, and its medicinal value is still very high. So what are the effects and functions of Citrus aurantium?

1. The efficacy of Citrus aurantium

Break up qi, eliminate phlegm, and eliminate accumulation. It is used to treat phlegm stagnation in the chest and diaphragm, chest fullness, flank distension, food stagnation, belching, vomiting, heaviness after diarrhea, rectal prolapse, and uterine prolapse.

① "Material Treatise": It is used to treat urticaria all over the body, itching in the muscles like numbness, intestinal wind and hemorrhoids, gas stagnation in the heart and abdomen, bloating and emptying in the flanks, and obstruction in the diaphragm.

② "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): Strengthens the spleen and appetite, regulates the five internal organs, reduces gas, stops vomiting, and eliminates phlegm. It can treat nausea, cholera, diarrhea, help digestion, break up knots and lumps, treat five types of diaphragmatic qi, eliminate wind and improve eyesight, and treat pulmonary edema, benefit the large and small intestines, and itchy skin. Hemorrhoids can be treated with heat and ironing.

③ "Kaibao Materia Medica": It is used to treat wind itching and paralysis, clear the joints, relieve cough due to fatigue, stuffy back and shoulders, disperse stagnation of phlegm in the chest and diaphragm, expel water, eliminate bloating and fullness, large intestine wind, calm the stomach, and stop wind pain.

④ "Pearl Capsule": breaks up qi and releases harmful qi in the lungs.

⑤ "The Origin of Medicine": "The Secret of Main Treatment" says that it can break up the hard mass under the heart, benefit the chest, resolve phlegm, and help digestion.

2. The role of Citrus aurantium

1. Citrus aurantium - The fruit increases coronary blood flow and renal blood flow, and reduces myocardial oxygen consumption. Intravenous injection of 0.02-0.5 mg/kg in anesthetized dogs shows a pressor effect. Large doses produce significant pressor effects. Intravenous infusion of 0.2 mg/kg per minute will increase renal blood flow by 75% and double urine volume. It has a strong effect of inducing myocardial rhythm, which is comparable to that of adrenaline and stronger than dopamine and synephrine. Synephrine contained in Citrus aurantium is an adrenaline a-receptor stimulant and also has a certain stimulating effect on cardiac B-receptors. It constricts blood vessels and increases blood pressure.

2. Diuretic effect

Intravenous injection of Zhishi injection and N-methyltyramine in dogs can significantly increase urine volume, while blood pressure and renal vascular resistance are significantly increased. Its diuretic effect may be produced by inhibiting tubular reabsorption and other effects. Other studies believe that Zhishi exerts its sodium excretion and diuretic effects by strengthening the heart, constricting renal blood vessels, and increasing filtration pressure.

The above article gives a clear introduction to the effects and functions of Citrus aurantium, and I believe everyone can understand it at a glance. In order to keep your body in a healthy state at all times, in addition to taking medication correctly after getting sick, relieving physical discomfort as soon as possible, and getting rid of the troubles of the disease, you must also improve your health awareness in daily life.