The efficacy and function of bergamot fruit

Bergamot fruit, also known as bergamot, five-finger orange, five-finger orange, etc., is the dried fruit of bergamot, a plant of Rutaceae. When the fruit has not yet turned yellow or yellowed in autumn, it is harvested and cut into thin slices and dried in the sun or at low temperature. It has the effect of soothing the liver and regulating qi, relieving pain, dryness, dampness and resolving phlegm, and has a therapeutic effect on liver and stomach qi stagnation, chest pain, epigastric fullness, less vomiting, coughing and phlegm. Now let's take a look at the efficacy and function of bergamot fruit.

Medicinal effect of bergamot fruit

The taste is pungent, bitter, sour and warm.

Meridian of liver, spleen, stomach and lung.

[efficacy] soothing the liver and regulating qi, stopping dysphagia, dampness and resolving phlegm, mainly treating liver and stomach qi stagnation, chest distension and pain, epigastric fullness, less food, vomiting, coughing and phlegm.

Compatible application of bergamot fruit

1, chest and abdominal pain: bergamot fruit smell fragrant, mild medicine, although it is a hard and warm product, but no dryness, can enter the lung, liver, spleen, stomach four meridians, all qi stagnation can be applied. It can be used to treat lung qi stagnation, chest depression and spleen and stomach qi stagnation, which can be used with wood incense, Fructus Aurantii and so on. For the treatment of stagnation of liver-qi and liver-qi invading stomach, it can be used with green skin and toosendan seed.

2. Excessive phlegm and cough: bergamot fruit is weak in resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and it can be used with orange collaterals, loofah collaterals, loquat leaves and so on.

Related discussion on bergamot fruit

1. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": tonifying the liver and warming the stomach, stopping vomiting, eliminating stomach cold phlegm, treating stomach pain, stopping facial cold pain, and Zhongxing qi.

2. Compendium of Materia Medica: cooking wine and drinking, treating phlegm, qi and cough. Fried soup to treat the pain in the lower heart.

3. "Benjing Fengyuan": specializes in breaking stagnant qi. Treat dysentery seriously and use it for those who are old.

4. "Materia Medica Zaixin": treating qi and soothing the liver, harmonizing the stomach and resolving phlegm, breaking up, treating dysphagia and nausea, eliminating symptoms and symptoms.

Edible method of bergamot fruit

1. Bergamot and ginger soup

[materials] 10 grams of bergamot, 6 grams of ginger, appropriate amount of sugar.

[practice] ① peeled the ginger, washed it in clean water with bergamot, took the ginger and cut it into slices. ② wash the casserole, put sliced ginger and bergamot into the pot, add some water, cook on the fire for 1 hour, remove the dregs and leave juice, add sugar and serve.

2. Bergamot rose tea

[materials] three dollars for roses and two dollars for bergamot

[practice] ① first boil bergamot with water for about 20 minutes. ② then brews roses with bergamot juice to drink instead of tea.

3. Stewed bergamot with rock sugar

[materials] rock candy, bergamot.

[practice] ① bergamot is washed and sliced. ② prepare a stew bowl and put in two cups of water, bergamot and rock candy. Bring the ③ to a boil and simmer for 40 minutes.