佛手
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

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