What side effect does tangerine peel have?

Orange peel is the dried ripe peel of Rutaceae plant orange and its cultivated varieties. It has the effect of regulating qi and lowering adverse flow, regulating appetite, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm. It is mainly used for qi stagnation and dampness of spleen and stomach, chest and diaphragm fullness, abdominal pain, lack of diet, vomiting and filth, adverse stool, lung qi block, cough and phlegm, etc. It also treats the beginning of breast carbuncle. Let's take a look at what side effects orange peel has.

What side effects does orange peel have?

Orange peel is a common Chinese medicine for regulating qi, strengthening stomach and resolving phlegm. Its side effects are very small. There is no acute poisoning in animal experiments for many times. However, it should be taken carefully for those with qi deficiency syndrome, yin deficiency dry cough, vomiting blood syndrome, red tongue and less fluid, and excess heat. In addition, pregnant women had better not eat tangerine peel, because tangerine peel in the number of additives and preservatives, have an impact on the fetus. There are tangerine peel can not eat more, eat too much will get angry.

The efficacy and role of orange peel

1. Spleen and appetite: The volatile oil contained in tangerine peel has mild stimulating effect on gastrointestinal tract, which can promote the secretion of digestive juice and eliminate gas accumulation in intestinal tract.

2. Exciting effect: tangerine peel decoction, alcohol extract, etc. can excite myocardium, but when the dose is too large, it will inhibit it. In addition, it can also cause mild contraction of blood vessels and rapidly increase blood pressure.

3. Expectorant effect: The volatile oil contained in tangerine peel has irritating passive expectorant effect, which makes sputum easy to spit out, has weak dilating effect on bronchus, and its alcohol extract has high antiasthmatic potency.

4. Anti-inflammatory effect: tangerine peel decoction combined with vitamin C and vitamin K can enhance anti-inflammatory effect.

Who can't eat orange peel?

1. Hyperacidity: Orange peel has a certain drying effect. If it is some patients with stomach fire, qi deficiency or dry cough in the body, it is best not to take too much to avoid more serious illness.

2. During medication: tangerine peel has certain influence on drug enzymes, so patients who are taking medicine should consult doctors in advance to avoid affecting the efficacy or causing adverse effects on the body.

3. Pregnant women are forbidden to take tangerine peel: tangerine peel is irritating, and the weaker the body resistance, the greater the stimulation, so pregnant women and children can only eat some tangerine peel at most. For safety reasons, it is best not to eat it.