Efficacy and function of Fructus Aurantii

Fructus Aurantii is the dried young fruit of citrus orange and its cultivated varieties or sweet oranges in Rutaceae. It is mainly produced in Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu and other places. It has the effect of breaking gas and eliminating phlegm and dispelling ruffian. It has therapeutic effect on stagnation, fullness, pain, diarrhea, obstruction of stool, phlegm stagnation, chest obstruction, visceral ptosis and so on. Let's take a look at the efficacy and effect of Fructus Aurantii.

Medicinal effect of Fructus Aurantii

The taste is bitter, bitter, sour and slightly cold.

The spleen and stomach meridians.

[efficacy] Breaking qi and eliminating accumulation, resolving phlegm and dispersing ruffian, mainly treating stagnation and internal stagnation, fullness, distension and pain, severe diarrhea, obstruction of defecation, phlegm stagnation and qi obstruction, chest arthralgia, chest constriction, organ ptosis, pregnant women should use with caution.

Related exposition of Fructus Aurantii

1. Benjing: strong wind in the skin, such as sesame bean itching, remove cold and heat, stop dysentery, grow muscle, benefit five internal organs, benefit qi and light body.

2. "don't record": in addition to phlegm addiction in the chest, stop water step by step, break firmness, flatulence and fullness, acute ruffian pain and adverse qi under the heart, hypochondriac pain, calm stomach qi, stop loose discharge, clear vision.

3. The Compendium of Materia Medica: the knot is broken. The same as Gleditsia pill, the atmosphere is closed.

Medicinal compatibility of Fructus Aurantii

1. Gastrointestinal stagnation: Fructus Aurantii is bitter, good at breaking qi and removing ruffian, eliminating accumulation and guiding stagnation. For the treatment of dietary stagnation, abdominal distension and pain, it is often used with Hawthorn, malt and Shenqu, such as Qumai Zhizhu pills. If gastrointestinal stagnation, heat constipation, abdominal pain, then with rhubarb, mirabilite, magnolia, such as Dachengqi decoction.

2. Chest arthralgia and chest: Fructus Aurantii can remove qi and resolve phlegm to eliminate ruffian, break qi and remove fullness and relieve pain. For the treatment of chest yang depression, phlegm blocking chest stuffiness and pain, it is often used with Allium macrostemon, cinnamon twig and Trichosanthes, such as Fructus Aurantii, Zhi Bai Guizhi decoction. Treatment of phlegm-heat knot chest, can be used with Coptis, Trichosanthes, Pinellia ternata, such as small sunken chest plus trifoliate decoction. The treatment of ruffian fullness and loss of appetite can be used with Pinellia ternata and Magnolia officinalis, such as Zhishi Xiaopi pills.

3. Breaking qi and relieving pain: Fructus Aurantii is good at relieving pain by breaking qi stagnation and relieving pain. it can be combined with Chuanxiong, such as Zhixiong Powder. If it is cold coagulation and qi stagnation, it can be matched with cassia twig, such as Gui Zhi San.

4. Postpartum abdominal pain: trifoliate orange implements qi to promote blood circulation and relieve pain, which can be divided into final use with peony, etc., to treat postpartum abdominal pain and irritability, such as Fructus Aurantii Shaoyao Powder, or with Angelica and motherwort.

Pharmacological effects of Fructus Aurantii

1. Effect on cardiovascular system: extract of Fructus Aurantii, injection of Fructus Aurantii and its active ingredients can strengthen heart, increase cardiac output, contract blood vessels, increase total peripheral resistance, and increase left ventricular pressure and arterial blood pressure.

2. The effect on stomach and intestine: the decoction, tincture and extract of Fructus Aurantii and Fructus Aurantii could inhibit the isolated intestines of mice and rabbits and the intestines of rabbits in vivo. The decoction made the gastrointestinal contraction rhythm of dogs with stomach and intestinal fistula strong and exciting, but inhibited the gastrointestinal motility of dogs in vivo. The extract of Fructus Aurantii has obvious antagonistic effect on intestinal contraction induced by acetylcholine and histamine.

3. The effect on uterus: the decoction of Fructus Aurantii and Fructus Aurantii mainly inhibited the isolated uterus of mice, whether pregnant or non-pregnant. It showed excitatory effect on rabbit uterus in vitro or in vivo, whether pregnant or non-pregnant. It also has a significant exciting effect on uterine fistula, which can make uterine contraction strong, tension enhanced, and even ankylosing contraction. The hot water extract of Fructus Aurantii can antagonize the contraction of rat uterus induced by 5-hydroxytryptamine in vitro.

4. The effect on the central nervous system: the extract of Fructus Aurantii has obvious sedative effect and can make mice quiet and less active. There is no hypnotic effect, but it has a synergistic effect with pentobarbital hypnosis. The extract of Fructus Aurantii can reduce the pain response caused by acetic acid in mice and reduce the increase in body temperature caused by typhoid vaccine in rabbits.

5. Diuretic effect: intravenous injection of Fructus Aurantii and N-methyltyramine could significantly increase urine volume, blood pressure and renal vascular resistance, which may be caused by inhibiting renal tubular reabsorption and other effects. it has nothing to do with the changes of renal blood flow and renal filtration excess.

6. Other effects: neohesperidin and citrinin in Fructus Aurantii have anti-inflammatory effects and multiply with paeoniflorin in Paeonia lactiflora. D-limonene in Fructus Aurantii can contract the isolated large intestine, uterus and peripheral blood vessels and stimulate the local mucosa. It can also increase the internal pressure of gallbladder in vivo, promote bile secretion and hyperactivity of sphincter of Audi.

Selection of Medicinal prescription of Fructus Aurantii

1, the treatment rate of Fructus Aurantii to suffer from chest pain: Fructus Aurantii ramming (the end), it is appropriate to take the square inch, day three, night one.

2. After the treatment of typhoid fever by Fructus Aurantii, the pain of chest and diaphragm is closed: Fructus Aurantii, fried with bran. Two dollars for rice drinks and two drinks a day.

3. Fructus Aurantii can treat ruffles, eliminate food, strengthen the stomach: two taels of Atractylodes macrocephala, and one or two of Fructus Aurantii (fried yellow bran, remove flesh). The same as the very fine powder, the lotus leaf wrapped in fried, rice for pills, as big as sycamore. Each take 50 pills, use more white soup, no time.