Pharmaceutical name: 英文藥名﹕ | Exocarpium citrl maximae Exocarpium citrl Grandis |
Botanical name: 學名﹕ | Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr. cv. Tomentosa Citrus grandis (L.) Osbeck Citrus grandis var. Tomentosa Hort. |
Pron. in Japanese: 日語發音 ﹕ | kikko |
Pron. in Korean: 韓語發音 ﹕ | gyulhong |
Pron. in Cantonese: 粵音﹕ | gwat1 hung4 |
Other Names: 別名﹕ | you pi ju hong 柚皮橘紅，Hua ju hong 化橘紅，Hua Zhou ju hong 化州橘紅，you zi pi 柚子皮。 |
Common Name: 英文名﹕ | pamelo skin |
Distribution: 產地﹕ | The herb is produced in Hua Zhou, Mao Ming districts of Guangdong province and Bo Bai, Lu Chuan districts of Guangxi, Qian Yang district of Hunan or China. 產廣東（化州，茂名），廣西（博白，陸川等），湖南（黔陽）。 |
Properties (characteristics)﹕ 性味﹕ | acrid, bitter, warm. 溫，味辛，苦。 |
Channels (meridians) entered: 歸經﹕ | stomach, spleen. 胃，脾。 |
| Medical functions: 藥理﹕ | |
Actions & Indications: 主治﹕ | Being used in wind cold type of cold and cough, itchy throat with abundance of phlegm, indigestion and over eating, over consumption of alcohol, chronic stomachache, flatulence, burping bad smell and tightness in stomach 功能下氣消痰兼除寒發表。用於風寒咳嗽, 喉痒痰多, 食積傷酒, 哎惡痞悶，慢性氣管炎，哮喘，飲食積滯，食積傷酒，嘔惡痞悶， 長期胃痛，氣痛等。 |
Chemical ingredients: 化學成份﹕ | fruit contains naringin, naringenin. Peel contians citral, geraniol, linalool, anthranilic acid), methyl ester. 果實含柚皮甙（naringin）、柚皮甙元（naringenin） ；果皮含枸櫞醛（citral）、香葉醇（geraniol）、芳樟醇（linalool）、磷氨基苯甲酸 (anthranilic acid),甲 酯 (methyl ester ）等 |
Dosage: 用量﹕ | 5 ~ 10 g |
Samples of formulae: 處方舉例﹕ | sheng tie luo yin 生鐵落飲, |
Modern Research: 現代研究﹕ | |
Toxicity & Cautions: 毒素與禁忌﹕ | Do not use in cases hot phlegm with qixu (qi deficient) and/or yinxu (yin deficient) condition. 氣虛及 陰虛有燥痰者不宜服。 |
據《化州縣志》載：化州鎮賴家園所產的橘紅，稱為正品化州橘紅，藥效特別好，主要原因是該地蘊藏著礞 石(礞石具有化痰止咳作用)，土層深厚，橘紅生長吸收了土壤裡礞石所致。
