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Tangerine Peel (ju pi)
Pericarpium Citri
Reticulatae
Properties:
The herb is pungent and bitter in flavour, warm in
nature, acting on the spleen and lung channels. Being
pungent for promoting circulation of Qi, bitter and warm
for eliminating dampness, and aromatic for enlivening
the spleen, the herb has mild effects of eliminating Qi
stagnation in the spleen and stomach and phlegm-dampness
in the spleen and lung. It is often used to treat Qi
stagnation, distention and fullness in the spleen and
stomach, retention and stagnation of dampness in the
middle Jiao, cough and asthma due to excessive phlegm in
the lung channel, and other syndromes.
Effects:
Promoting circulation of Qi, strengthening the spleen,
eliminating dampness and relieving phlegm.
Indications:
1. The herb is often used
combination with aucklandia root, amomum fruit, nutgrass
flatsedge rhizome and other herbs for promoting
circulation of Qi and normalizing function of the
stomach, to treat gastro-abdominal distention, anorexia,
vomiting and diarrhea caused by Qi stagnation in the
spleen and stomach; with hawthorn fruit, medicated
leaven, unripen bitter orange and other herbs for
eliminating stagnated food, to treat dyspepsia, Qi
stagnation, distention, acid regurgitation and
indigestion; and with dangshen, white atractylodes
rhizome and other herbs for strengthening the spleen and
supplementing Qi, to treat abdominal distention,
anorexia and loose stool due to spleen deficiency.
2. The herb is often used
in combination with pinellia tuber, poria and liquorica
for strengthening the effects of eliminating dampness
and phlegm, such as Erchen Decoction, to treat excessive
cold-phlegm and damp-phlegm in the interior, cough,
abundant expectoraion and asthma; and with atractylodes
rhizome, magnolia bark and other herbs for eliminating
dampness, relieving phlegm, disintegrating masses and
removing food retention, such as Pingwei powder, to
treat retention of dampness in the middle Jiao,
vomiting, hiccup, diarrhea, oppressed feeling in the
chest and greasy fur.
Dosage and Administration:
3-10g.
Appendix: Pummelo Peel.
The drug is the peel of the
unripen or nearly ripen fruit of the plant Citrus
grandis, Tomentosa'or C. grandis (L.) Osbeck of family
Rutaceae. Bitter and pungent in taste, warm in nature,
and having effects of promoting Qi circulation and
relieving phlegm, the herb is indicated for Qi
stagnation, distention and fullness in the spleen and
stomach, abundant expectoration, cough and other
syndromes. Pummelo peel is superior to tangerine peel in
the nature of warm-dryness. Therefore, it is
appropriaate to use Pummelo peel for patients with
abundant expectoration and cough but with no stagnated
heat in the interior. Its dosage is 3-10g.
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