Dried Orange Peel*** the amazing spices for cooking in Vietnam
The health benefits of oranges are well known but not many people know that orange peel also has many unexpected effects:
1. Cough cough
Repelling common coughs and colds – Orange peels also have the optimal support for the treatment of common colds, along with uncomfortable symptoms such as cough, stuffy nose, runny nose, sore throat.
2. Cure constipation
12 grams of fresh orange peel or 6 grams of dried orange peel, distilled into drinking water, can cure constipation.
3. Relieve digestion is not good
Orange peel can help improve digestion. The high fiber content in them helps regulate bowel movements and prevent constipation. This is a good treatment for many digestive disorders, including indigestion, flatulence, irritable bowel syndrome, bloating and heartburn.
4. Cure colds and colds
9g dried orange peel, 50g rice, a little ginger, boiled with 2 bowls of water to get 1 bowl to drink, cure colds, nausea effectively
5. Reduce bad cholesterol
Orange peel can reduce low density lipoprotein (bad cholesterol – LDL) in the body. LDL increases the risk of heart disease and heart attack. Pectin in orange peel helps reduce cholesterol and even lower blood pressure.
In addition to the healing effects when distilled into drinking water, using orange peel to soak with water also brings the following effects:
1. Moisturize the skin
Orange peel with many essential oils will help the skin become soft, smooth and youthful. Also helps to remove dead cells and blackheads gently, naturally, giving skin a radiant glow. In addition, orange peel also helps to fade pigmentation and freckles on the skin.
2. Sterilization and detoxification
Because essential oils in orange and tangerine peels have antibacterial properties, you can cut and dry to disinfect the room and disinfect the house. Tangerine peels are washed and allowed to dry to help deodorize the fridges. If you put into the charcoal stove a few pieces of dried tangerine peel, the smell of coal is also reduced.
3. Improve sleep
Use the frieze from fresh tangerine peel or orange peel with boiling water for an hour, cover tightly, then comb clean and squeeze the juice of the peel to mix into the bath. At the same time squeeze more essential oil from fresh peel mixed with finely ground salt to bath water. Before going to bed about an hour, soak in the mixture for more than 15 minutes and do it every other day.
4. Keep warm
In addition, the orange peels and soak your feet in hot water at a temperature of about 40 degrees C, after 15 to 20 minutes, the headache will be significantly reduced. Soaking your feet in hot water helps your feet and blood vessels dilate with heat, blood flowing from the head to the bottom of your feet, thus reducing the pressure on the head.
5. Reduce headaches
Massaging the soles of the feet can stimulate meridians and reduce headaches. Especially acupuncture points under the soles of the feet, straight to the brain, this point massage can lead blood down, reduce headaches.
