Knowledge of traditional chinese medicine: gardenia

This product is the dry mature fruit of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis of the family Cynaceae. Produced in the provinces south of Yangtze River. harvested in September-November when the fruit is ripe reddish-yellow, remove the fruit stalk and impurities, steam to the upper gas or put in boiling water, take out, dry. It is used raw, fried or charcoal.

Taste

Bitter, cold.

Attribution

Attributed to the heart, lung and San Jiao meridians.

Functions

1. Diarrhea fire to get rid of the annoyance: heat disease heartburn (Yue Ju Wan, gardenia black bean soup, gardenia free and easy to be dispersed); high fever and irritability (clearing the plague and defeating toxin drink, Huanglian detoxification soup).

2. Clearing heat and inducing dampness: damp-heat jaundice; short and red urination (Artemisia capillaris soup, gardenia cyperus rotundus soup); heat drenching (Bazheng san); blood drenching (small artichoke drink).

3. Cooling blood and detoxification: blood-heat hemorrhage (ten gray powder); carbuncle sores.

4. External swelling and pain: external treatment of sprains and contusions.

Clinical application

1. Heat disease upset. This product is bitter cold and clear, can clear diarrhea triple jiao fire evil, diarrhea heart fire and get rid of annoyance, for the treatment of heat disease heartburn, restlessness and disturbances of the important medicine, can be used with tempeh, such as gardenia black bean soup ("typhoid fever"); If with scutellaria, Huang Huanglian, cypress, etc., can be used to treat the heat disease fire venom blazing, triple jiao all heat and see high fever and irritability, fainting delirium, such as Huanglian detoxification soup ("external Taiwan secret" cited Cui's formula).

2. Damp-heat jaundice. This product has the effect of clearing the lower liver and gallbladder dampness and heat, can be used to treat liver and gallbladder dampness and heat of jaundice, short and red urine, often used with chen, rhubarb and other medicines, such as Artemisia capillaris soup ("the theory of typhoid fever"), or with cypress, such as gardenia cypress soup ("the Golden Chamber").

3. Gonorrhea astringent pain. This product is good at clearing the damp-heat in the lower Jiao and through the gonorrhea, clearing the heat and cooling the blood to stop bleeding, so it can cure the astringent pain of blood gonorrhea or hot gonorrhea, often with Mutong, Psyllium, Talc and other medicines, such as the eight Zhengsan ("Hejiaobingfang").

4. Blood-heat epistaxis. This product functions to clear heat and cool blood, and can be used to treat the blood-heat delusion of vomiting and epistaxis, etc. It is often used with Bai Mao Gen, rhubarb, and lateral cypress leaves, such as Ten Ashes San (Ten Medicines Divine Book); if this product is used with Scutellaria baicalensis, Rhizoma Coptidis, and Cyperus rotundus, it can be used to treat the triple jiao fire that forces blood to delude the blood of vomiting and epistaxis, such as Rhizoma Coptidis Antidotes Soup (Waidai Xieyao, cited by Cui's formula).

5. Eyes red, swollen and painful. This product clear diarrhea San Jiao heat evil, can cure liver and gallbladder fire heat up attack of eye red swelling pain, often with rhubarb, such as gardenia soup ("Wai Tai Secret Essentials").

6. Heat poisonous sores and ulcers.

7. Sprain and contusion pain. This product externally reduces the swelling and stops the pain, use to treat the sprain and contusion pain, available raw gardenia powder and the yellow wine mixes into the paste, apply externally to the affected area.

Jiao gardenia function specializes in cooling blood and stopping bleeding, used for blood fever, vomiting blood, epistaxis, blood in urine, leakage.

General dosage and usage

Decoction, 6-10g. external use of raw product appropriate amount, grinding powder dressing.

Note on Use

This product is bitter and cold to hurt the stomach, and should not be used by people with spleen deficiency and loose stools.

Identification of medicine

Gardenia is used in medicine, except the whole fruit is used in medicine, there are also peel and seed used separately. Gardenia skin (rind) favors to reach the surface and go to the skin heat; Gardenia kernel (seed) favors to go to the inside and clear the internal heat. Raw gardenia go qi and clear heat and diarrhea fire, burnt gardenia into blood and cool blood and stop bleeding.

Press words

1. gardenia, a gardenia, light clear upward, can diarrhea lung fire, go to the muscle surface heat, in the external heat disease, the surface of the hot occasion, can play the role of the double solution; This product is bitter and cold to drain down, and can drain the San Jiao fire, cool the blood and clear the heart heat, can be used for the heat disease heartburn; The blood is hot to go and the heat showers the urine and blood and so on the symptom. Therefore, the gardenia can clear the heat of qi, and can clear the heat of blood. As for draining heat and diuresis, can be used for jaundice, also is its specialty.

2. This product with scutellaria baicalensis, can diarrhea lung fire; And then add light bean curd, can double solve the heat of the surface and the inside, with scutellaria baicalensis, can diarrhea triple jiao fire, clear the heart heat; With raw land, danpi, can cool the blood and stop the blood, cure the blood heat, epistaxis, urine and blood; With cypress, yin chen, can clear the heat and benefit the humidity, cure the jaundice of dampness-heat.

3. In the past, in the clinical application, there is the usage of gardenia skin to go to the muscle surface heat, gardenia kernel to clear the heart heat, now Shanghai area has been simplified, all use the whole gardenia, no longer divide gardenia skin, gardenia kernel.

Example of formula

Gardenia rhubarb soup 《jin gui yao liu》: gardenia, rhubarb, citrus aurantium japonicum, edamame. Treatment of wine jaundice, heart brooding or heat pain.

Literature excerpt

1. "Shennong ben cao jing": ? Main five internal evil gas, stomach heat, face red wine blisters and vagina, white mange and red mange sores and ulcers.

2. "This herb is": ? Gardenia, if use adjuvant, cure have different. Adds Yin Chen removes dampness-heat jaundice, adds black beans in addition to heart fire irritability, adds thick Park, Citrus aurantium can remove annoyance fullness, adds ginger, Chen Pi can remove vomiting obscenity, with Yuan Hu breaks heat stagnation and stasis of blood abdominal pain.

Modern research

1. Chemical composition: This product contains iso gardenia glycoside, dehydroxy gardenia glycoside, gardenia ketone glycoside, gardenia glycoside, jingonipine glycosidic acid and flavonoid gardenia gardenia jasmin, triterpene compounds saffronin and saffronic acid, arbutic acid and so on.

2.pharmacological action: gardenia extract on ligation total bile duct animal's GOT elevation has obvious lowering effect; Gardenia and its contained ring enol ether terpene have good bile action; Its extract and saffron glycoside, saffron acid, gernypodin and so on can make bile secretion increase; Gardenia and its extract have good pancreas and lower pancreatic enzyme action, jingnipine glycoside lowering pancreatic amylase's effect is most significant; Gardenia decoction and alcoholic Extract has antihypertensive effect, its contained component saffron acid has reduce the incidence of atherosclerosis effect; Gardenia's alcohol extract has sedative effect; This product on staphylococcus aureus, meningitis diplococcus, katharococcus and so on have inhibitory effect; Its aqueous immersion in vitro has inhibitory effect on many kinds of skin fungi.

3. clinical research: with gardenia research for fine powder, egg white, flour, white wine appropriate amount, *** mix into paste, paste sprain part, treatment closed soft tissue injury 300 cases, after 1 time treatment cured 298 cases (sichuan traditional Chinese medicine, 1988, 2:44); With gardenia 40?60g, decoction soup ton serve, treatment goat tramp poisoned 3 cases, are cured (sichuan traditional Chinese medicine, 1983, 4:56); With gardenia 40?60g, decoction soup ton serve, treatment goat tramp poisoned 3 cases, are cured (sichuan traditional Chinese medicine, 1983, 4:56); With gardenia 40?60g, decoction soup ton serve, treat sheep tramp poisoning 3 cases, all get cured. 1983, 4:56); With by gardenia, firewood hu, rhubarb, sepsis grass, salvia and other medicines composition of firewood gardenia passes blood stasis soup treatment acute edema type pancreatitis 37 cases, achieved satisfactory efficacy [Nanjing university of traditional Chinese medicine journal (natural science edition), 2001, 1:59)].