Capejasmine Fruit.Fructus Gardeniae.
Article Content:
- .Botanical Data Info of Capejasmine Fruit.
- .Capejasmine Plant Description.
- .Phytochemicals and Constituents of Capejasmine Fruit.
- .Capejasmine Property and Effects:Capejasmine Fruit.
- .Capejasmine Functions and Pharmacology Properties.
- .Uses and Suggestions of Capejasmine Fruit.
- .Capejasmine Fruit Tips.
- .Research Update:Gardenia jaminoides Ellis or Capejasmine Fruit.
Capejasmine Fruit 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).
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