Efficacy and function of Gardenia jasminoides

Gardenia jasminoides, also known as water horizontal branch, branch flower, branch, etc., is the fruit of Gardenia jasminoides of Rubiaceae. It has the effects of clearing heat, purging fire and cooling blood. It has therapeutic effects on fever, sleeplessness, jaundice, gonorrhea, thirst, red eyes, sore throat, hematemesis, dysentery, urine, heat toxin sore, sprain and swelling pain. Let's take a look at the efficacy and effect of Gardenia jasminoides.

Medicinal effect of Gardenia jasminoides

[taste] bitter taste, cold nature.

Heart, liver, lung and stomach meridians.

[efficacy] clearing heat, purging fire, cooling blood, mainly treating fever, deficiency and sleeplessness, jaundice, gonorrhea, relieving thirst, red eyes, sore throat, hematemesis, dysentery, urine, heat sore, sprain and swelling.

Pharmacological effects of Gardenia jasminoides

1. Cholagogic effect: oral administration of Gardenia jasminoides water extract and alcohol extract had no effect on the bile volume and solid components derived from the infusion bile duct, but someone injected the same preparation into the rabbit, the bile secretion began to increase in 15 minutes and lasted for more than 1 hour. The bile secretion of rabbits increased after intravenous injection of crocetin and sodium crocetin. The gallbladder film was taken after oral administration of Gardenia jasminoides decoction or granule. It was proved that the gallbladder had obvious contractile effect 20 and 40 minutes after taking the medicine.

2. Sedative effect: subcutaneous injection of Gardenia jasminoides extract could reduce spontaneous activity, such as eye closure, head bowing, muscle relaxation, and antagonize pentylenetetrazol convulsion, but could not resist strychnine convulsion, but could reduce its mortality. compared with the ash of flow extract, the above effect was not found. It is also used to eliminate insomnia and overfatigue.

3. Antihypertensive effect: gardenia decoction and alcohol extract have persistent antihypertensive effect on anesthetized or non-anesthetized cats, rats and rabbits, no matter oral or intraperitoneal injection. The hypotensive site seems to be in the parasympathetic center of the medulla oblongata.

4. Antimicrobial: gardenia water flooding liquid has inhibitory effect on many kinds of fungi, such as Trichophyton Xulan, Trichophyton inguinalis, Trichophyton rubrum and other fungi in the test arm. 15 mg / ml of its decoction can kill Leptospira, in vitro, Gardenia decoction can stop the activity of Schistosoma japonicum, and the decoction has no inhibitory effect on bacterial growth.

5. Other effects: gardenia alcohol extract on isolated intestinal smooth muscle of rabbits and rats was excited at low concentration and inhibited at high concentration. Geniposide has a purgative effect on mice, and its extract is made into ointment, which can accelerate the healing of soft tissue.

Discussion on Gardenia jasminoides

1. Benjing: the main five internal evil qi, hot gas in the stomach, red face, wine blister and nose, white leprosy, red leprosy, sores.

2. "don't record": treat eye heat and pain, chest, heart, large and small intestines are hot, heart is upset, stomach is hot.

3. "Theory of drug properties": killing insect poison, removing heat and toxic wind, benefiting five gonorrhea, main evil, passing urination, solving five kinds of yellow diseases, clear vision, curing fever and thirst, dry mouth, red swelling and pain in the eyes.

4. "the image of medicine": to treat annoyance and chagrin without sleep, the mind is overwhelmed, blood stagnation and urination are disadvantageous.

5. "Compendium": treatment of hematemesis, dysentery, dysentery, lower blood, hemolysis, injury and blood stasis, and recovery of typhoid, fever, headache, hernia, soup fire injury.

Processing method of Gardenia jasminoides

1. Raw gardenia: sift off dust, pick out impurities, crush and sieve, or cut off both ends.

2. Gardenia jasminoides seed: take clean gardenia, cut it open from the middle with scissors, peel off the skin and take kernel.

3. Mountain mast skin: the exocarp peeled off by raw Gardenia jasminoides.

4. Fried gardenia: take crushed gardenia, stir-fry in a pan until golden brown, remove and cool.

5. Scorched Gardenia jasminoides: take crushed gardenia, stir-fry in the pot until scorched, remove and cool.

6. Gardenia charcoal: take crushed gardenia, stir-fry in the pot until dark brown, but store, take out and cool.

Medicinal selection of Gardenia jasminoides

1. Treat typhoid, sweating and vomiting: two flavors, four liters of water, two and a half liters of cooking cabinet, natch, boil one and a half liters, remove me, and divide them into two servings. If you warm into it, take it after you vomit.

2. For the treatment of typhoid fever, there are three Fructus Aurantii (broiled), fourteen gardenia (cut), and one liter of soy sauce (wrapped in cotton). On the three flavors, seven liters of clear pulp water, four liters of empty boil, inside trifoliate fruit, gardenia, boil two liters, lower tempeh, boil five or six boil, remove dregs, temperature points and then take, cover so that slightly like sweat. If there is a persistent eater, the inner rhubarb is like Bo chess pieces five or six.

3. Treat cold and yellow fever: fifteen fat gardenia (cut), one or two licorice (broiled), and two yellow cypress. Three flavors, four liters of water, boil a liter and a half, remove me, warm and then take.

4. It is difficult to cure urination: twenty-seven gardenia kernels, a few salt flowers, and one garlic. Mash it up, stick the navel on the paper flowers, or apply it to the scrotum for a long time.

5. Treat acute gastroenteritis, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea: Shanzhi Sanqian, Panzhu Nan Wuwei (Zijin skin) root five coins, green wood incense two coins. Add medicine to stir-fry black sex and add honey for five dollars. Pan-fry in water and take it twice.