What are the advantages and disadvantages of eating yellow skin?

Huangpi is produced in all parts of South China, and May and June of the lunar calendar is the mature season of Huangpi. Generally, there will be a layer of sweet yellow skin with little acidity; Sour yellow skin, quite sour. There is also a bitter yellow skin, which is bitter yellow skin. Although it tastes bitter, it has the best medicinal effect.

Sweet yellow skin is the best, and it tastes better when cooked. Sour yellow peel and bitter yellow peel are much better than sweet yellow peel if they are used to quench thirst in summer. The sweetness and bitterness of yellow skin not only has the benefits of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, but also makes the throat sweet and cool after eating, and a chill penetrates the chest and abdomen, which is refreshing.

In medicine, wampee has the effects of eliminating fullness in chest and abdomen, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, regulating qi and relieving cough; Bitter yellow skin has a particularly good effect. Some pharmacists think: "The bitter taste of wampee can stimulate bile secretion, promote digestion and make absorption function vigorous;" This bitter taste also has a cardiotonic effect, which can relax the tension of chest and abdominal muscles and reduce or eliminate fullness. The reason why wampee can relieve cough is because it can relax the tension of chest and abdomen muscles, make breathing smooth, and the cough will naturally stop without obstacles. "

When using wampee for dietotherapy, you can refer to the following methods: when eating wampee, you must put the whole pulp, peel and stone into your mouth and chew them up, and slowly swallow them with residue and juice, so that the effect can be remarkable. For example, indigestion, eating too much, fullness in the chest and abdomen, affecting breathing, feeling poor, nausea, suffocation, repeated spitting and water, and stagnation of the heart may also occur. If it is the yellow skin season, you may wish to use more than ten pieces of yellow skin, with a core, slowly swallow and chew, naturally resolve phlegm, and eliminate chest and abdomen stagnation. For people who have hernia disease on weekdays, it is better to chew the yellow skin in this way when the pain occurs.

Traveling to the suburbs in summer, the heat is pressing. If you are short of water on the way, it is easy to feel the heat of summer if you are a little weak. If you can bring some yellow skin, especially bitter yellow skin, if you are thirsty or feel bored, chewing a few pieces of yellow skin will not only quench your thirst, but also have the benefit of heatstroke prevention. Those who have been having a lot of phlegm, have bad breath from time to time, or suffer from the disease of "phlegm asthma", chewing a few fresh fruits with yellow skin with a belt before going to bed at night may make them sleep well at night, so this method can be used to treat patients with phlegm disease and receive the effect of adjuvant treatment; If it is not the yellow skin season, you can buy yellow skin pits in Chinese medicine shops, choose the big and complete ones, put them in porcelain plates, steam them on rice, and then chew them, which also has the effect of resolving phlegm and smoothing qi.