Immature
Orange Fruit is the dried young fruit of Citrus aurantium
L. and its cultivars or Citrus sinenesis Osbeck (Fam.
Rutaceae).
Action:
To eliminate stagnation
of qi, resolve phlegm and relieve stuffiness sensation in
the chest and abdomen.
Indications:
Stagnation of qi marked by feeling of stuffiness, fullness
and distending pain, tenesmus in dysentery, or constipation;
pectoral pain and stuffiness sensation due to stagnation of
phlegm and qi; tenderness and feeling of fullness in the costal
regions or from the epigastrium down to the lower abdomen
accompanied by constipation; gastroptosis, prolapse of the
rectum, prolapse of the uterus.
