Introduction: Dried orange peel, also known as aged tangerine peel, is very beneficial to your health when used to make tea! Moreover, by adding just a few other ingredients, orange peel tea can instantly become a remedy for various ailments! Don't believe orange peel has so many benefits? Let's tell you about the benefits of drinking orange peel tea!
What are the benefits of drinking orange peel tea?
Orange peel, also known as aged tangerine peel, is a common traditional Chinese medicine for regulating qi, strengthening the stomach, and resolving phlegm. Using orange peel to make tea can clear heat, stop coughs, and resolve phlegm, but drinking tea with fresh orange peel is not good for your health.
With the improvement of cultivation techniques and the application of preservation technologies, in recent years, most farmers soak oranges in preservatives before they go to market. Preservatives are a type of chemical agent. While the preservative has no effect on the fruit pulp, the residue on the orange peel is difficult to wash off with water. If you use such orange peel to make tea, the damage to your health is obvious.
Even drinking tea with fresh orange peel that has not been soaked in preservatives will not provide its intended medicinal effects. The reason it is called "aged" tangerine peel is that the older it gets, the better it is. Generally, it should be stored for at least a year before use. The famous physician Tao Hongjing of the Northern and Southern Dynasties stated: "Aged tangerine peel is superior." Research has shown that the water decoction of aged tangerine peel contains adrenalin-like components, but these are more stable than adrenaline and are not destroyed by boiling. After a year, the volatile oil content in aged tangerine peel is greatly reduced, while the content of flavonoid compounds relatively increases. Only then can the medicinal value of aged tangerine peel be fully realized.
How to make orange peel tea?
1. Cough with Phlegm
Ingredients: 9g of aged tangerine peel, 1 walnut, 3 slices of ginger.
Method: Decoct in water and then drink.
2. Stomach Ache
Ingredients: 3g of orange pith, 6g of ginger, a little brown sugar.
Method: Decoct in water, then add a little brown sugar and drink.
3. Chronic Gastritis
Ingredients: 30g of dried orange peel, a little sugar.
Method: Grind the orange peel into a fine powder, mix with sugar, and take with warm water on an empty stomach.
4. Vomiting
Ingredients: 9g of orange peel, 50g of rice, a little ginger juice.
Method: Decoct in water, then add a little ginger juice and drink.
5. Bronchitis
Ingredients: 30g of candied orange peel, 15g of garlic.
Method: Soak in water and drink as a tea substitute.
6. Scald
Ingredients: Rotten orange
Method: Apply an appropriate amount to the affected area.
7. Poor Appetite, Indigestion
Ingredients: 3g of dried orange peel, 10 red dates.
Method: Soak in boiling water for 10 minutes. Drink frequently as a tea substitute before meals to treat poor appetite and indigestion.
8. Cold and Cough
Ingredients: 30g of fresh orange peel, 600ml of water, a little sugar.
Method: Decoct in water until it becomes 400ml. Add an appropriate amount of sugar and drink 200ml while hot. Reheat the remaining 200ml and drink it after half an hour, twice in total.
Tip: This method is effective for coughs caused by a cold.
9. Fever During Pregnancy
Ingredients: 2 oranges, 1 cucumber.
Method: Wash both, then mash and juice them. Drink 2-3 times a day.
10. Hoarseness
Ingredients: 20g of orange peel, 2 pears.
Method: Wash the pears and juice them. Decoct the orange peel in water. Mix the pear juice with the orange peel decoction and drink together, 2-3 times a day.
Tip: This method is effective for acute laryngitis and hoarseness.