Prolate-ovoid or ellipsoid, 1.5~3.5 cm long, 1~1.5 cm in diameter. The outer surface reddish-yellow or brownish-red, with 6 longitudinal winged ribs and a conspicuous longitudinal and branched vein between two ribs. Summit bearing remains of sepals, base somewhat tapering and having a remain of fruit stalk. Pericarp thin and brittle, somewhat lustrous; the inner surface relatively pale in colour, lustrous, with 2~3 raised false septa. Seeds numerous, flattened-ovoid, aggregated into a mass, deep red or reddish-yellow, with fine and dense warts on the surface. Odour slight; taste, slightly sour and bitter.
Capejasmine Fruit(Fructus Gardeniae)
Gardeniae Fructus
Pharmaceutical Name: Pructus Gardeniae
Botanical Name: Gardenia jaminoides Ellis
Common Name: Gardenia fruit, Capejasmine fruit
Source of Earliest Record: Shennong Bencao Jing
Origin:Fruit of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis. Rubiaceae)
Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: The fruit is gathered in autumn or winter when it is ripe. Either the raw herb or the carbonized herb is used.
This herb is the ripe fruit of Gardeniajasminoides Ellis (family Rubiaceae), produced mainly in the provinces of Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Hunan. It is dried in sunlight after harvesting, and used unprepared or stir-baked to brown or to charcoal.
Prolate-ovoid or ellipsoid, 1.5~3.5 cm long, 1~1.5 cm in diameter. The outer surface reddish-yellow or brownish-red, with 6 longitudinal winged ribs and a conspicuous longitudinal and branched vein between two ribs. Summit bearing remains of sepals, base somewhat tapering and having a remain of fruit stalk. Pericarp thin and brittle, somewhat lustrous; the inner surface relatively pale in colour, lustrous, with 2~3 raised false septa. Seeds numerous, flattened-ovoid, aggregated into a mass, deep red or reddish-yellow, with fine and dense warts on the surface. Odour slight; taste, slightly sour and bitter.
Phytochemicals and Constituents:
Main content: gardenoside,C17H24O11,0.26%~1.04%;genipin;geniposide,C17H24O10; crocin,C44H64O24, 0.105%~1.101%; chlorogenic acid,C16H18O9;gentiobioside, gardenoside,crocin, crocetin,gardenin,mannitol, beta-sitosterol
Flavou rand channel tropism: bitter in flavour, cold in property, acting on the heart, lung, stomach and sanjian channels.
Effects: Purging fire, relieving dysphoria, clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, removing heat from the blood and stopping bleeding.
Functions and Pharmacology Properties:
Cape Jasmine Functions:
analgesic agents
laxative agents
supresive agent of gastric secretion
choleretic agents
anti-hypertensive agents
anti-sclerotic agents
anti-coagulant agents
Purges sthenic fire to relieve vexation.
Cools and reduces fever and heat.
Expels heat to promote diuresis.
Clears away toxic substances.
Cools the blood and stop bleeding.
Relieves dysphoria, restlessness, irritability, nose bleeding, sore eyes, blood in urine and sputum.
Cape Jasmine Pharmacology Properties:
Anti-Pathogen: Cape jasmine fruit shows different levels of inhibition on Staphylococcus aureus,Catarrhalis,n. gonorrhoeae,Neisseria meningitidis,Trichophyton,Trichophyton schoen1einii,microsporum and HBV-DNAP.
Anti-inflammatory: Hydrolic extracts of cape jasmine fruit shows effective treatment on Soft Tissue Damage of rabbit and mice adbomen blood vessels swell.
Sedation and Pain relief: Ethanol extract of cape jamine fruit injection or oral dose lower mice activity,inhibition of mice leg tumidiness identified by cape jasmine fruit extracts by ethanol,methanol,acetic acid. Ursolic acid of cape jasmine fruit plays as the major reasons of pain relief effects.
Lower body temperature and drive fever: Ethanol extracts of cape jamine makes body temperature of mice/rat lower,and effects lasting long.Ursolic acid identified as the major effective constituents. Experiment proved that ethanol extracts of prepared cape jamine fruit or raw cape jamine fruit plays strong fever/heat relief effects on fever rat caused by yeast, raw fruit functions stronger than extracts.
Boost Gallbladder and Protect Liver: Cape jamine functions strong and protect gallbladder,hydrolic decoction of cape jasmine fruit brings shrink of mice gall bladder.Decoction shows strong inhibition on Bilirubin of rabbit blood,lowering the concentration of bilirubin. Ethanol extract and constituents such as Crocin gardenoside,geniposide prompt bile excrecte.Clinical test find that after drink decoction of cape jasmine,bile of human shrinked and volume smaller,thus the bile drainage effects of cape jasmine fruit identified.
Liver protection effects of cape jasmine fruit identified: mice cute liver damage by carbon tetrachloride relieved by different prepared cape jasmine fruit,raw cape jasmine fruit functions the strongest,chacoaled grade no functions. Hydrolic decoction of cape jasmine fruit shows protective effects on rat hepatitis caused by D-galactosamine,death ratio decreased.In rat acute jaundice model caused by Anit,cape jasmine fruit lowers blood serum bilirubin, ALT and AST.
Uses and Suggestions:
1. Febrile diseases manifested as vexation, melancholia and restlessness: It is used together with prepared soybean, i.e.Decoction of Capejasmine and Fermented Soybean (Zhizi Chi Tang). If excessive noxious heat is present with symptoms of high fever, dysphooria, unconsciousness and delirium, it is often used with coptis root and scutellaria root, as in Antipyretic and Antitoxic Decoction (Qingwen Baidu Yin).
2. Stagnation of damp heat in the liver and gall bladder manifested as fever, jaundice, scanty dark urine, etc: It is often used with Oriental Wormwood, rhubarb and phellodendron bark, as in Oriental Wormwood Decoction (Yinchenhao Tang) and Decoction of Capejasmine and Phellodendron (ZhiziBaipi Tang).
3. Bleeding due to invasion of blood by pathogenic heat, such as hematemesis, epistaxis, dysentery with bloody stool and hematuria: It is often used with cogongrass rhizome, dried rehmannia root and scutellaria root.
4.Clearing away intense fire and relieving fidgets:
For the treatment of febrile disease with fidgets or irascibility, restlessness, it is often combined with Semen Sojae Preparatum, for the combination of these two drugs has the effect on reducing heart-fire and relieving fidgets. For the treatment of febrile disease with unconciousness and delirium due to abundance of heat-toxicant, it is often combined with the drugs for reducing heat, purging fire and relieving toxicants, such as Rhizoma Coptidis, Radix Scutellariae and Cortex Phellodendri; for hot eyes, dry mouth and thirst, fidgets, with Flos Chrysanthemi, Radix Scutellariae, Radix Glycyrrhizae, etc.
5.Clearing away heat and resolving dampness:
The drug having the functions of facilitating the flow of the bile and relieving jaundice, is indicated in jaundice due to damp-heat, accompanied with scanty urine in dark color; and for the treatment of jaundice, it is often with Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Cortex Phellodendri, etc,; for the treatment of stranguria with bloody urine, painful micturition with hot sensation and with urine in dark color, with Radix Rehmanniae, Caulis Akebiae, Semen Plantaginis, etc.
6.Reducing heat in the blood and arresting hemorrhage:
For the treatment of spitting blood, epistaxis, dysentery with hematochezia, painful urination with hematuria, etc., it is often combined with drugs for reducing heat in the blood.
Besides, its powder mixed with vinegar can be used to treat injury or sprain, hematoma with pain and swelling; and it is often mixed with white of eggs and is used to treat scald and burn.
Dosage: 3-10 g
Cautions & Contraindications: The herb is contraindicated in cases with weakness of the spleen and diarrhea.
Toxicity and Safety:Geniposide
Acute Toxicity:Geniposide Mice.intravenous injection,Intraperitoneal Injection,Oral,at dosage 3g/kg.No toxic effects and death identified.Reference:by Liu Zhiqiang,etc.from Journal of Zhejiang Medical University.1988,17(5):221.
Tips:
Actions: To reduce fire and ease the mind, to eliminate damp-heat, and to remove heat from blood and counteract toxicity.
A paste of the herb with flour and wine is used as poultice on twists, sprains, strains, bruises, and abscesses; very effective in injuries to tendons, ligaments, joints, and muscles.
Indications: Febrile diseases with restlessness; jaundice with dark urine; hematuria with difficult painful urination; hemoptysis and epistaxis caused by heat in the blood; inflammation of the eye; boils and sores; external use for sprains and bruises.
1. For treating febrile diseases manifested as vexation, melancholia and restlessness,Febrile diseases manifested as high fever, irritability, delirium and loss of consciousness: Capejasmine (Zhizi) is used with Prepared soybean (Douchi), Forsythia fruit (Lianqiao) and Scutellaria root (Huangqin).
2. Jaundice with fever and dysuria: Capejasmine (Zhizi) is used with Oriental wormwood (Yinchenhao), Rhubarb (Dahuang) and Phellodendron bark (Huangbai).
For intense fire in the liver channel manifested as headache, dizziness or stagnation of damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder manifested as fever, jaundice, scanty dark urine, etc.
3. Extravasation caused by heat in the blood manifested as vomiting blood, epistaxis and hematuria: Capejasmine (Zhizi) is used with Imperata rhizome (Baimaogen), Fresh rehmannia root (Shengdihuang) and Scutellaria root (Huangqin).
Bleeding due to invasion of blood by pathogenic heat, such as hematemesis, epistaxis, dysentery with bloody stool and hematuria.
4. Boils and carbuncles: Capejasmine (Zhizi) is used with Coptis root (Huanglian), Scutellaria root (Huangqin) and Honeysuckle flower (Jinyinhua).
Scientific References:
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seminal trace...Cape Jasmine Extract.Gardenia jasminoides Ellis.CAS.NO:92457-01-7.Gardenia Florida Extract.Cape Jasmine Fruit Extract,Fructus Gardeniae Extract,Gardenia jasminoides Ellis.Extract. Gardenoside,C17H24O11....
Botanical Data Info of Capejasmine Fruit:
Main content: gardenoside,C17H24O11,0.26%~1.04%;genipin;geniposide,C17H24O10; crocin,C44H64O24, 0.105%~1.101%; chlorogenic acid,C16H18O9;gentiobioside, gardenoside,crocin, crocetin,gardenin,mannitol, beta-sitosterol
Anti-Pathogen: Cape jasmine fruit shows different levels of inhibition on Staphylococcus aureus,Catarrhalis,n. gonorrhoeae,Neisseria meningitidis,Trichophyton,Trichophyton schoen1einii,microsporum and HBV-DNAP.
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