Wiseman’s Chinese Medical Database

xiāng yuán / 香橼 / 香櫞 / citron;

Latin pharmacognostic name: Citri Fructus

Alternate English names: Chinese lemon

Alternate Chinese names: 香圆 xiāng yuán; 香栾 xiāng luán

Origin: Plant

Use: medicinal

Category: Qì-rectifying agents

Properties: Acrid, slightly bitter, and sour; warm; nontoxic*.

Channel entry: liver, lung, and spleen channels.

Indications:

Courses the liver and rectifies qì; harmonizes the center and transforms phlegm.

liver-stomach disharmony with distension and pain in the chest rib-side, glomus and fullness in the stomach duct and abdomen, and vomiting and retching; cough with copious phlegm.