Green
Tangerine Orange Peel (qing pi)
Pericarpium
Citri Reticulatae Viride
Properties:
The herb is pungent and bitter in flavour, warm in nature,
and acts on the liver and stomach channels. Being pungent
for dispersing, warming and clearing , and bitter for
lowering and purging, the herb has strong effects of
relieving Qi stagnation, soothing the liver, promoting
digestion and resolving food retention. The herb is
indicated for severe stagnation of the liver-Qi, food
retention, distention in the gastro-intestinal tract.
Effects:
Relieving stagnation of Qi, soothing the liver, promoting
digestion and resolving food retention.
Indications:
1. The herb is
often used in combination with bupleurum root, nutgrass
flatsedge rhizome, curcuma root and other herbs for
soothing the liver and promoting circulation of Qi, to
treat stagnation of the lievr-Qi and fullness or even
distending pain in the chest and hypochondrium; with
mongolian snakegourd fruit, dandelion, bupleurum and other
herbs for soothing the liver, regulating Qi circulation,
clearing heat and toxic substances, to treat lump in
breast caused by stagnation of the liver-Qi or swelling
pain due to acute mastitis; and with common fennel fruit,
aucklandia root, lindera root and other hers for warming
the liver, dispersing cold, promoting circulation of Qi
and alleviating pain, to treat abdominal colic due to
invasion of cold and abdominal pain.
2. To treat
retention of food, stagnation of Qi, gastro-abdominal
distending pain and indigestion, the herb can be used in
combination with hawthorn fruit, germinated barley,
medicated leaven and other herbs for promoting digestion
and resolving stagnated food, such as Qingpi Pill.
Dosage and
Administration:
3-10g.
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