Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride

Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium Viride is a small evergreen tree or SHRUB, 3 ~ 4 meters high. Branches weak, spiny or unarmed. Single compound leaves alternate; Petiole 0.5-1.5 mm long, with inconspicuous leaf wings, apex articulate; Leaf Blade Lanceolate or elliptic, 4-11 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, apex acuminate, retuse, base cuneate, entire or with inconspicuous UNDULATE obtuse teeth, there are translucent oil gland spots. Flowers solitary or several in axils of branches or leaves, pedicellate; Calyx cup-shaped, 5-lobed, lobes triangular; Petals 5, Long Elliptic, 1-1.5 cm long, white or reddish, revolute outward; stamens 15-25, of varying length, filaments often 3-5 commissure, stigmas as long or slightly longer; Pistil 1, ovary rounded, stigma capitate. The citrus fruit is nearly round or Oblate, 4 ~ 7 cm in diameter, red, vermilion, yellow or orange; the peel is thin and loose, the SAC 7 ~ 12, easy to separate. Seeds ovoid, pointed at one end, White, several to dozens, or absent, embryo dark green, cotyledons light green. FLORESCENCE IS 3 ~ 4 months, fruiting period is 10 ~ 12 months. Cultivated in hills, low mountains, rivers and lakes along the coast or plain. In Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and other provinces. The young fruits collected from May to June were dried in the sun, and the immature fruits from July to August were dissected lengthways from the skin to the base, with all the pulp removed and dried in the sun. The characters of the medicinal materials are that the PERICARP is dissected into 4 lobes, the lobes are long elliptic, 4 ~ 6 cm long and 0.1 ~ 0.2 cm thick. Outer Surface gray-green or black-green, densely covered with most oil chambers; inner surface similar to white or yellow-white, rough, with yellow-white or yellow-brown veins. Slightly hard, easy to break, cross-section of the outer edge of the Oil Chamber 1 ~ 2. Fragrant, bitter, pungent. A Green Skin: quasi-spherical, 0.5 ~ 2 cm in diameter. Surface gray-green or black-green, slightly rough, with a fine concave down the oil chamber, the top of a slightly raised base, the base of a round fruit terrier scar. Pericarp yellow-white or Yellowish Brown in cross section, hard. Thickness 0.1 ~ 0.2 cm, the outer edge has the OIL CHAMBER 1 ~ 2 row. Pulp Capsule 8 ~ 10 petals, Light Brown. Fragrance, sour, bitter, acrid. Sexual Taste Channel: sexual temperature, taste bitter, acrid. Channel of the liver, gallbladder and stomach. Efficacy and function: Soothing Liver and Breaking Qi, eliminating accumulation and stagnation. Herbs for regulating Qi. Pharmacological Study: Regulate Gastrointestinal Function; Remove Phlegm and Asthma; Cholagogue; protect liver; anti-shock; have positive effect on the excitability, conductivity, contractility and self-regulation of myocardium. Chemical composition: mainly contains Hesperidin, L-octylflorin Acetate, L-Aspartic Acid, cystine, leucine, proline, etc. . The Dry mature pericarp of tea branch orange contained 3.541% volatile oil, the main component was limonene.