Try these six tangerine peel medicinal foods to strengthen your spleen and eliminate phlegm

Tangerine peel is the peel of the ripe fruit of various citrus species such as the Rutaceae plant Fuci or Zhuci. Orange is one of our favorite fruits in daily life. It is not only nutritious, but also has high medicinal and edible value. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that tangerine peel is pungent, bitter, and warm in taste, and enters the lung and spleen meridians. It has the effects of regulating qi and harmonizing the middle, relieving adverse effects and stopping vomiting, and drying and warming to resolve phlegm. It is suitable for symptoms such as spleen and stomach qi stagnation, chest and abdominal fullness, vomiting and poor appetite, poor appetite and fatigue, loose stools, cough and excessive sputum.

Tangerine peel porridge

Ingredients: 10 grams of tangerine peel, 50 grams of rice. Preparation method: Wash the tangerine peel, cut it into small pieces, boil it in water to extract the juice, and remove the residue; wash the rice, put it into a pot, add the tangerine peel juice and appropriate amount of water, cook it into a thin porridge and take it, 1 dose per day; or grind the tangerine peel into fine powder, take 3-5 grams each time, and mix it into the thin porridge.

Efficacy: It can promote qi and strengthen the spleen, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. It is suitable for spleen and stomach qi stagnation, abdominal distension, indigestion, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, cough with excessive phlegm, chest fullness and stuffiness, etc.

Tangerine peel and lean meat soup

Ingredients: 10 grams of tangerine peel, 50 grams of lean pork, 3 slices of ginger, and appropriate seasonings. Preparation: Wash the tangerine peel and cut into fine pieces; cut the green onion into sections; wash the lean pork, cut into shreds, and thicken with starch, soy sauce, and cooking wine; heat an appropriate amount of vegetable oil in a pan, add the green onion and ginger, sauté until fragrant, then add the shredded pork and stir-fry, then add the tangerine peel and stir-fry, add salt and MSG when cooked, and fry until done.

Efficacy: It can strengthen the spleen and appetite, reduce acid and relieve pain. It is suitable for stomach qi stagnation, epigastric pain caused by excessive stomach acid, warming, vomiting of clear water, etc.

Tangerine peel crucian carp

Ingredients: 10 grams of tangerine peel, 250 grams of crucian carp, and appropriate seasoning. Preparation method: Soak the tangerine peel, wash it, and cut it into shreds; slice the ginger; grind the pepper; cut the green onion into sections; remove the scales from the crucian carp and wash it; put the tangerine peel, ginger, pepper, green onion sections, etc. into the fish belly, then put the crucian carp in a bowl, put the ginger slices on it, then add appropriate amounts of rice wine, vinegar, salt, MSG and water, stew it in water and serve.

Efficacy: It can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, suitable for cold stomach pain, chronic dysentery, chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain, etc.

Duck with tangerine peel

Ingredients: 10 grams of tangerine peel, 1 green duck, and appropriate seasonings. Preparation: Remove the feathers from the duck, wash it, add water to simmer it, take it out when it is slightly cooked, wait for it to cool, remove the duck bones, and place it breast side up in an enamel basin; add appropriate amount of milk powder and chicken steam to the original soup of the stewed duck, bring to a boil, add cooking wine, soy sauce, pepper powder, ginger powder, etc. and boil again, put it in an enamel basin, put the shredded tangerine peel on the boneless duck, and steam it in a steamer for 30 minutes.

Efficacy: It can strengthen the spleen and appetite, and is suitable for weak spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, malnutrition, physical weakness and emaciation, etc.

Chicken and Orange Powder Porridge

Ingredients: 5 grams of chicken gizzard lining, 3 grams of dried orange peel, 2 grams of Amomum villosum, 30 grams of rice, and a little white sugar. Preparation method: Grind all the medicines into fine powder; wash the rice, add appropriate amount of water to cook porridge, add the medicine powder and sugar when it is cooked, cook until the porridge is done, take 2 times a day, 1 bowl each time at noon and evening.

Efficacy: It can strengthen the spleen and eliminate accumulation. It is suitable for children with abdominal distension, sallow complexion, thin muscles, vomiting, sticky and uncomfortable stools caused by improper eating.

Hot Chicken with Tangerine Peel Oil

Ingredients: 15 grams of tangerine peel, 1 young rooster (about 1500 grams), and appropriate seasoning. Preparation: Remove the feathers from the rooster, wash it, put it into a pot, add chopped tangerine peel, onion, ginger, pepper, salt, etc., cook until the chicken is half done, remove and let cool; then put the chicken and the marinade into the pot, simmer until the chicken is half done, remove and let cool; then put the chicken and the marinade into the pot, simmer until the chicken is half done, remove and let cool; then put the chicken and the marinade into the pot, simmer until the chicken is done, take out; add sugar, MSG, salt, etc. to the marinade, use high heat to thicken the soup, apply it on the chicken skin, and pour out the remaining juice. Put vegetable oil in a pan and heat it to 90% hot. First, put the remaining tangerine peel into the pan and fry it until it is crispy. Then, repeatedly blanch the chicken with the oil used to fry the tangerine peel. When the chicken skin turns bright red, take it out and apply sesame oil on it. Then, cut it into pieces.

Efficacy: It can warm the middle and replenish Qi, dry dampness and strengthen the spleen. It is suitable for chest and abdominal distension, loss of appetite, vomiting and nausea, etc.