The effects of gardenia:
1. Clears heat and relieves irritability: Suitable for heat disturbing the mind. a. External febrile diseases, with pathogenic factors stagnating in the upper burner, causing chest tightness, irritability, and insomnia. b. Intense fire toxicity, high fever, irritability, and even delirium.
2. Cooling the blood and detoxifying: Used for heat-toxin syndromes in the blood. a. Blood heat causing reckless bleeding, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria. b. Sore throat, red eyes, and sores caused by heat toxins, belonging to the category of excess heat.
3. Clears damp-heat: Suitable for damp-heat syndromes in the liver, gallbladder, and lower jiao. a. Damp-heat stagnation in the liver meridian, causing irritability, hypochondriac pain, and bitter taste in the mouth. b. Damp-heat jaundice and damp-heat descending to the lower jiao, causing painful and difficult urination.
〖Indications〗 Clears heat and relieves irritability, promotes urination, cools blood and detoxifies. Used for fever with irritability, jaundice with dark urine, painful urination with blood, hematemesis and epistaxis due to blood heat, swollen and painful eyes, carbuncles and sores caused by fire toxins, and sprains.
The effects of gardenia:
1. Promotes bile secretion and reduces jaundice:
Gardenia water extract, along with crocin and crocin acid, significantly increased bile secretion in rabbits and significantly contracted the human gallbladder. They also significantly reduced bilirubin in the blood and peripheral lymph, promoting rapid excretion of bilirubin from the blood.
2. Promotes pancreatic secretion:
Gardenia jasminoides promotes pancreatic secretion, significantly reduces pancreatic amylase, and increases pancreatic and biliary flow.
3. Antipyretic effects and effects on microorganisms
Alcoholic extracts of gardenia and its various processed forms all possess antipyretic effects, with raw gardenia exhibiting the strongest effect. Ursolic acid is one of the effective components of gardenia for its cooling and sedative properties. The ursolic acid content decreases significantly after charring, thus weakening the antipyretic effect of fried gardenia; charred gardenia has no antipyretic effect. Aqueous extracts of gardenia have inhibitory effects on various dermatophytes and on hemolytic streptococci.
4. Other
Sedative effect: Gardenia decoction has a sedative effect, and the sedative effect is significantly enhanced after being stir-fried until charred or carbonized.
Lowering blood pressure: Gardenia decoction has a long-lasting effect in lowering blood pressure and preventing and treating arteriosclerosis.
Coagulation: Charred Gardenia has a significant coagulation effect and can significantly shorten the coagulation time in mice.
Inhibition of gastric acid: The decoction of raw gardenia fruit has a significant inhibitory effect on total gastric acid secretion and pepsin activity in mice. The inhibitory effect is significantly weakened or eliminated after charring.
Laxative: Dehydrogenoside and isogenoside have a laxative effect.
Accelerate healing: Gardenia extract, when made into an ointment, can accelerate the healing of soft tissues.
