This product Rutaceae Orange Citrus reticulata Blanco and cultivars dried outer peel. Orange is the outer layer of dried orange peel, orange peel that after removing the white part of the rest of the interior portion of the outer layer of red. Ming Li in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records "orange share, Lee gas, phlegm, cough Gong times his medicine." Orange acrid, bitter, warm, readily available and better, but not for everyone.

Orange phlegm most common use is for the treatment of cough, phlegm-based, are now commonly used in its treatment of itchy throat, phlegm, symptoms of chronic bronchitis, asthma and other diseases. Many cough and phlegm name of party, such as apricot Su San, Cough Powder in both orange. Orange pills, cough sputum orange liquid, oral orange, orange loquat capsules, etc. are also in clinical medicine for phlegm. In addition to being blindly phlegm medicine, orange also both spleen qi, digestion hangover, eliminate greasy, detoxification, can be used to treat vomiting, excessive drinking food plot and discomfort, stomach pain and other long-term effect is good. General amount of orange in decoction 3 to 10 g, the specific amount of different groups should be prescribed adjustments.
Because orange spicy, somewhat divergent, easy gas consumption, simultaneous partial warm dry, easy to damage the body fluid, so Yin dry cough, bloody sputum, qi deficiency in patients with chronic cough generally should not use the orange and orange-containing cough and phlegm drugs. Not symptomatic or excessive use may cause nausea, vomiting, irritability, lethargy and other symptoms. If long-term use of these drugs warm and dry, but also easily lead to constipation.
It should be noted that, of the grapefruit orange skin, orange peel, dried tangerine peel is made after a full, and orange is not the same kind of medicine, its usage and dosage have some differences, it is recommended to use as directed.