How to dry orange peels

People who like to eat oranges may want to dry the orange peels. Drying orange peels is not as simple as people imagine. It is not just a matter of putting them in the sun. Before drying orange peels, you must first rub the surface of the oranges clean and pass them through salt water. Then soak the oranges in a basin of flour for ten minutes. Then put the orange peels in a sealed box and leave it for one year. Finally, dry the orange peels in the sun.

1. Fresh orange peel and the tangerine peel used in traditional Chinese medicine are not the same thing.

It has no medicinal effect and soaking it in water may have adverse effects on your health.

2. Orange peel becomes dried tangerine peel after being stored for one year. Dried tangerine peel has the effect of regulating qi and eliminating phlegm.

It has a therapeutic effect on patients with respiratory diseases such as qi stagnation and excessive phlegm. As for the side effects, patients with qi deficiency should not use it, otherwise the symptoms will be aggravated. It is best not to soak fresh orange peels in water.

3. Drinking dried orange peels soaked in water can clear away heat and reduce internal heat.

It also has the effects of clearing heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. It can be soaked in water and drunk. It is generally harmless, but it is best not to drink too much at one time to avoid excessive osmotic pressure.

Tangerine peel is called "chenpi" when used as medicine. It has the effects of regulating qi and drying dampness, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, and strengthening the spleen and stomach.

It is often used to prevent and treat chest and flank pain, hernia, breast swelling, breast lumps, stomach pain, food stagnation, and gas loss. The fruit core is called "orange core", which has the effect of dispersing nodules and relieving pain. It is often used clinically to treat testicular swelling and pain, mastitis swelling and pain, etc. Orange peel, which refers to the network of meridians on the orange pulp, has the effect of dredging meridians and resolving phlegm, relieving qi and activating blood circulation. It is often used to treat symptoms such as phlegm stagnation and cough. Tangerine peel can promote dampness, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.

Tangerine peel is the outer skin of the ripe tangerine fruit.

It can treat abdominal distension and pain, poor appetite, nausea and vomiting, belching, hiccups, loose stools and diarrhea, cold phlegm and cough, and detoxify fish and crabs.

The green-skinned orange is named after the green skin of the unripe fruit.

It is often used for symptoms such as chest and flank fullness, stomach distension, hernia, food accumulation, breast swelling or lumps, and abdominal masses caused by liver depression and qi stagnation.

The network of veins in the inner layer of orange peel.

It is sweet, bitter and neutral in nature, and has the functions of promoting qi and unblocking meridians, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It is mainly used to treat chest and flank pain caused by phlegm stagnation in the meridians, cough and sputum, or blood in the sputum.