Summer is the season when gardenias are in full bloom, and the white flowers and refreshing fragrance make people feel refreshed in the hot summer heat.
Traditional Chinese medicine gardenia is the dried and ripe fruit of the plant gardenia, which is a heat-clearing medicine, which was first published in the "Shennong Materia Medica": "Gardenia has a bitter taste and is cold. The five evil spirits in the main body, the heat in the stomach, the red face, the wine and the nose, the white leprosy, the red leprosy, and the sores and ulcers" are listed as medium grades. "Materia Medica": "Gardenia is sexual, can rise or fall, although the smell is bitter cold, and the air is light." Gardenia bitter cold, light Xuan, can clear the three scorched fire evil, Tongli three coke waterway, heat conduction with the urine, and the heart fire and remove the heat, is the master of the heat and fire world, the treatment of fire.
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The dried ripe fruit of the Rubiaceae plant gardenia
【Sexual Taste Returns】
Bitter and cold. Return to the heart, lungs, and three focal meridians.
【Functions and Indications】
Relieve fire and remove troubles, clear away heat and dampness, cool blood and detoxify; External use to reduce swelling and relieve pain. It is used for fever and upset, damp heat jaundice, astringent pain of gonorrhea, blood heat and vomiting, eye redness, swelling and pain, fire poison sores; External treatment of sprains and contusions.
【Dosage】
煎服，6~10g。 外用生品适量，研末调敷。
【Different Fabrications】
Raw Gardenia:
It is used for high fever, damp heat jaundice, damp heat drenching syndrome, sores and ulcers, swelling and poisoning, sprains and falls, but it is easy to hurt the middle qi and irritate the stomach.
Stir-fried gardenias:
After stir-frying, it can eliminate the irritation of raw gardenia to the stomach, clear away heat and trouble, and is often used for heat depression and upset, liver heat and redness. Such as curing fever and upset.
Burnt Gardenia:
The bitter cold is reduced, and the spleen and stomach are weak. It is often used for heat and depression, liver heat and red eyes. Such as curing fever and upset.
Gardenia charcoal:
It is mostly used for vomiting blood, hemoptysis, coughing up blood, Xiu blood, urine blood, and leaking blood.
【Clinical compatibility】
(1) Compatible with light tempeh
Relieve fire and treat heat and boredom, such as gardenia bean soup.
(2) It is used in conjunction with skullcap, coptis, and cork
Diarrhea fire detoxification, treatment of fire poison blazing syndrome, such as Coptis detoxification soup.
(3) It is used in conjunction with cork and licorice
It has the effect of clearing away heat and dampness and reducing yellowness without harming the positive, such as gardenia cypress soup.
(4) Compatible with Yin Chen and rhubarb
Clear away heat and dampness, treat damp heat jaundice, such as Yin Chenhao soup.
(5) It is used in conjunction with magnolia bark and citrus aurantium
It can be used to treat depression and insomnia, such as gardenia magnolia soup, and gypsum can be used to treat anxiety.
(6) Use with dried ginger
Clearing away evil heat and removing troubles, warming the spleen and stomach and stopping benefits, clearing heat and removing annoyance, warming the spleen in warmth, and treating diaphragmatic fever and spleen cold, such as gardenia dry ginger soup.
【Health Tea】
Gardenia Tea:
It is used to prevent symptoms such as fever, damp heat, jaundice, blood fever and vomiting.
Gardenia Tea:
It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and is mainly used to treat symptoms such as heat and thirst, mouth and tongue sores, and damp heat jaundice.
【Precautions】
This product is bitter and cold hurts the stomach, yin and blood deficiency, spleen deficiency and loose stool should be used with caution.
Author: Huang Zhangyan, Wuhan Central Hospital
Reviewer: Lai Yongji, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Wuhan Central Hospital