When I was living in Taiwan, I picked up some good habit from the people I was living with, including chinese medicine remedies. One was to eat some bitter/sour orange like dried skins (sold in blisters) in winter. I believe it could be kumquat skins. Now that I am back i don’t know the name and cannot find them here. Hence I need a little help with a correct ID.
For the usage of dried tangerine peel (陳皮 Chen-Pi) in traditional Chinese medicine: it helps on digestion and eases coughing and vomiting.
For the usage of dried kumquat (金桔 Jin-Ju) in traditional Chinese medicine: it helps dissolve phlegm, and helps recover from being drunk.
One of the most popular ready made traditional Chinese remedy that people in Taiwan take for ease of coughing is "Pi- Pa-Gao". Here is the wiki page in traditional Chinese language, you can take a look at the picture, and look it up in U.S. Asian supermarket.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%BF%B5%E6%85%88%E8%8F%B4
But if you already have sore throat, you probably want to use western medicine to stop the inflammation. In this case, aspirin could work better.
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Bitter orange peel (Chen Pi) is not typically used in Chinese Medicine for sore throat.
I think you were either misinformed, or misunderstood.
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For the usage of dried tangerine peel (陳皮 Chen-Pi) in traditional Chinese medicine: it helps on digestion and eases coughing and vomiting.
For the usage of dried kumquat (金桔 Jin-Ju) in traditional Chinese medicine: it helps dissolve phlegm, and helps recover from being drunk.
One of the most popular ready made traditional Chinese remedy that people in Taiwan take for ease of coughing is "Pi- Pa-Gao". Here is the wiki page in traditional Chinese language, you can take a look at the picture, and look it up in U.S. Asian supermarket.
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%BF%B5%E6%85%88%E8%8F%B4
But if you already have sore throat, you probably want to use western medicine to stop the inflammation. In this case, aspirin could work better.
References :