Dired Orange Peel

English Name

Tangerine Peel

Latin Name

Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae

Other Name

Orange Peel 

SPEC

Whole, Slice, Cut, Powder

Package Style

PP+PE, CTN

Product Info

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine uses several citrus peels for specific health support, including those of mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata Blanco) and bitter orange (Citrus Aurantium). 

For hundreds of years, herbalists trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) have used mature mandarin orange peel, known as chen pi or ju pi in Chinese medicine, to improve digestion, relieve intestinal gas and bloating, and resolve phlegm. This peel acts primarily on the digestive and respiratory systems. We apply it in conditions involving a sense of distension and fullness in the chest and upper middle abdomen combined with loss of appetite, vomiting or diarrhea, or coughs with copious phlegm.

Immature mandarin orange peel, known as qing pi in Chinese medicine, acts primarily on the liver and stomach to promote digestion, relieve food retention and abdominal distension, and promote good liver function. Practitioners of Chinese herbology use this herb when the sense of distension and discomfort lies primarily under the rib cage rather than the central abdomen. 

The Chinese materia medica states that the rind of the mature bitter orange (zhi qiao) relieves abdominal distension and chest congestion.