Finger Citron
Latin name: Citrus medica L. var. sarcodactylis Swingle
Family: Rutaceae
Part Used: Fruit, flower
Properties: Fruit: taste pungent, bitter, sour, warm in nature; Flower: taste little bitter, little warm in nature
Actions:Fruit: soothing liver for regulating qi-flowing, harmonizing stomach for suppressing pains; Flowers: arousing the spleen stimulating appetite, disinhibiting the diaphragm for arresting vomiting
Usage:Fruits: stagnation of liver-qi and stomach-qi, gastric and costal swelling pain, fullness of chest and abdomen, poor appetite and vomiting; Flower: used for patients with hyperactivity of liver-Yang or stagnation of liver-qi, with stomach attacked by hiccups