Medical applications of oranges you don’t know.
Oranges are a popular fruit that can be seen everywhere in life, but what you don’t know is that oranges also have medicinal properties and have very high medicinal value. A substance can be extracted from oranges that named Fructus Aurantii.
Fructus Aurantii Extract also named Citrus seed P.E; Bitter Orang P.E; Citrus Aurantium Ext; Citus Aurantium P.E. that extracted from the dried young fruits of lime CitrusaurantiumL or sweet orange C.SinensisO.
Powerful medicinal functions with wide range of effects.
- Effect on metabolism.
The synephrine in the Citrus aurantium extract helps to increase cell heat production and metabolism, accelerate fat consumption and muscle formation; the Citrus aurantium compound can promote the secretion and retention of gastric juice in rats, increase liver glycogen levels, and reduce pancreatic juice starch. The role of enzyme activity.
- Effect on cardiovascular system.
Citrus aurantium extract and its active ingredients synephrine and N-methyltyramine have the effects of strengthening the heart, increasing cardiac blood output, constricting blood vessels, and improving peripheral resistance.
- Effect on smooth muscle.
This product can inhibit the isolated intestinal tubes of mice and rabbits and the in-vivo intestinal tubes of rabbits; it has obvious excitatory effects on the isolated and in-vivo rabbit uterus, and can resist the uterine muscle contraction caused by 5-hydroxytryptamine.
- Diuretic effect.
Citrus aurantium and N-methyltyramine significantly increase the diuretic effect.
- Central inhibitory effect.
This product has an obvious sedative effect, making mice quiet and less active. It has a synergistic effect with pentobarbital hypnosis. In addition, it also has a certain antipyretic and cooling effect.
- Anti-inflammatory effect.
The flavonoids in the Citrus aurantium extract can inhibit the inflammatory swelling caused by external application of croton oil and xylene on mouse ear shells, and the citrus glycosides and neohesperidin contained in it can inhibit the edema of the soles of the feet caused by carrageenan. effect.
- Effect on immune function.
Subcutaneous injection of Citrus aurantium extract can increase the phagocytosis of chicken red blood cells by peritoneal macrophages; intraperitoneal injection of the extract into young mice can significantly reduce the weight of the thymus and spleen. 1/1600 Zhishi liquid has an inhibitory effect on PHA-induced transformation of small lymphocytes in vitro.
- Antioxidant effect.
Free radicals are an effective defense system of the body. However, when free radicals are produced too much or cleared too slowly, they can cause various damages to the body at the molecular level, cellular level, and tissue and organ levels by attacking life macromolecules and various organelles. , accelerate the aging of the body. Studies have shown that hesperidin can chelate metal ions to inhibit the generation of free radical initiators, and at the same time has a direct scavenging effect on free chemical radicals. Hesperidin’s ability to chelate metal ions is the main basis for its anti-oxidation.
- Anti-cancer effect.
Hesperidin and its derivatives can inhibit the formation of cancer caused by many mutagens. Hesperidin can inhibit skin inflammation in mice caused by inoculation of tumor cells, and has a significant inhibitory effect on oral cancer, esophageal cancer, bladder cancer, etc. in the model group of mice.
- Calming effect.
Hesperidin can cooperate with diazepam to promote sleep, and hesperidin has a better sedative effect. When the ratio of hesperidin to diazepam is 4:1, the best effect is achieved. Research also shows that in mixed preparations, only when the content of hesperidin is higher can its synergistic effect be fully exerted.
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