"Pumping Huang and Bai is called talent, who sends Shan Gardenia into the painting". With the breath of summer, we ushered in the season of gardenia blooming. We all like the faint fragrance of gardenias, which have been used in medicine for thousands of years and are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Traits of the source of gardenias
Gardenia is also known as yellow gardenia, silver gardenia, mountain gardenia. Rubiaceae, evergreen shrub with woody flowers. More than 1 m high, the leaves are opposite or 3 leaf whorls, with short stalks, the leaves are leathery, obovate or obovate, the apex is acute, slightly blunt, the surface is shiny, only the lower veins are clustered in the axillary with short hairs, and the leaves are sheath-like. The flowers are large, white, aromatic, with short stalks, solitary branch apex. The flowering period is long, from May to June to August.
Gardenia in addition to ornamental, its flowers, leaves, fruits, roots can be used in medicine, gardenia is the fruit of gardenia after falling, for the mainland of the earliest batch of announced medicine and food homology of medicinal materials.
The efficacy of gardenia is indicated
1. Sexual taste is attributed to the scriptures
cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste; into the lungs, liver, and three focal meridians.
2. Indications:
- Clears the lungs and relieves cough: It has a significant effect in the treatment of pulmonary fever and cough.
- Cool blood and stop bleeding: It has a certain alleviating effect on vomiting blood, blood in the urine, blood in the stool, collapse and other diseases caused by blood fever and delusion.
- Clear heat and relieve fire: It has a certain therapeutic effect on symptoms such as eye redness, swelling and pain, damp heat and jaundice.
- Cool blood and detoxify: It can alleviate the symptoms of sores, ulcers, swelling, poison, blood, drenching and pain caused by blood heat and poison.
- Dispelling wind and relieving itching: It can be used to relieve rubella, eczema, itchy skin and other conditions.
Pharmacological effects of gardenia
In addition, gardenia decoction and alcohol extract have a hypotensive effect, the ingredient saffron acid helps to reduce the incidence of arteriosclerosis, and its alcohol extract also has a sedative effect.
Healthy recipes for gardenias
1. Gardenia salad
500 grams of gardenia, chopped green onion and shredded ginger. Wash the gardenias, put them in boiling water and boil, drain them, dry them to loose, put them in a porcelain plate, sprinkle them with chopped green onions and ginger, pour in sesame oil and old vinegar, put salt and monosodium glutamate, and stir evenly. This dish is fragrant and tender, and has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, detoxifying and stopping dysentery. It is suitable for pulmonary fever, cough, carbuncle, intestinal wind and other diseases.
2. Gardenia egg drop
200 grams of gardenia, 3 eggs, chopped green onion and shredded ginger. Wash the gardenias, put them in boiling water for a while, and chop them into minced pieces; Knock the eggs into a bowl and beat evenly; Add the gardenia to the eggs and stir well; Add oil to the pot, cook until it is hot, pour in the gardenia egg flowers, fry them, sprinkle them with chopped green onions, shredded ginger, add salt and monosodium glutamate, and fry them evenly. This dish is fragrant, crisp and tender, has the effect of clearing heat and nourishing the stomach, widening the intestines and improving qi, and is suitable for stomach hot and bad breath, swollen and painful gums, poor stool and other diseases.
3. Gardenia fried small bamboo shoots
200 grams of gardenia, 150 grams of shelled bamboo shoots, 100 grams of bacon, appropriate amount of chopped green onion and shredded ginger. Gardenia to remove miscellaneous washes, slightly nao; Small bamboo shoots cut diagonally into thin slices; Cut the bacon into small cubes; Add oil to the pot, burn until it is 60% hot, pour the gardenia, small bamboo shoots and bacon into the pot together, stir-fry several times, add chopped green onion and ginger, and then stir-fry until cooked, add monosodium glutamate and salt as appropriate. This dish is light and fragrant, crispy and refreshing, with the effect of strengthening the spleen and appetizing, clearing heat and relieving the intestines, and is suitable for stomach sluggishness, diet reduction, abdominal distension and stool knots.
epilogue
Gardenia is not suitable for everyone to consume or use for treatment, especially for certain groups of people (e.g. pregnant women, lactating women, children, etc.). If you need to use gardenia as medicine, it is recommended to do it under the guidance of a professional physician and pharmacist to ensure safe and rational use of medicine. Its fruit gardenia is bitter cold, spleen deficiency and diarrhea, and kidney yang deficiency should be used with caution.
Reviewer: An Wei, deputy chief pharmacist of the Third People's Hospital of Hubei Province
Author: Zheng Juan, chief pharmacist, Department of Pharmacy, Third People's Hospital of Hubei Province