What are the effects and benefits of Gardenia? This article gives you a detailed introduction

Gardenia is not only beautiful in appearance, but also a medicinal herb with many benefits for the human body. Today we will introduce the effects and benefits of Gardenia.

Gardenia, although it appears to be simply a flower, can actually also be used as medicine and food, and can help treat many diseases and relieve bodily pain and other symptoms. It is rich in protein, a variety of vitamins and other nutrients, and is very beneficial to human health.

The effects of Gardenia

1. Purging fire and relieving restlessness: Gardenia is suitable for heat disturbing the mind. a. Externally contracted febrile disease, with pathogen lodged in the upper jiao, causing chest and heart oppression, restlessness and insomnia. b. Fire toxin in abundance, high fever and agitation, even delirium.

2. Cooling blood and removing toxin: Gardenia is often used for blood-aspect heat toxin patterns. a. Blood heat causing reckless movement of blood, vomiting blood, nosebleed, blood in urine. b. Sore throat and red eyes, heat toxin sores and ulcers, of the excess heat type.

3. Clearing and disinhibiting damp-heat: Gardenia is suitable for damp-heat patterns of the liver and gallbladder and the lower jiao. a. Damp-heat and fire stagnation in the liver channel, with heart vexation, irritability, rib-side pain and a bitter taste in the mouth. b. Damp-heat jaundice and damp-heat pouring downward, with painful, rough urinary strangury.

The actions of Gardenia

1. Gardenia can promote bile flow and resolve jaundice: The water extract of Gardenia and crocin and crocetin, when injected into rabbits, have a clear effect of increasing bile secretion, and have a clear contracting effect on the human gallbladder. They can also clearly reduce bilirubin in the blood and in peripheral lymph fluid. They can promote the rapid excretion of bilirubin in the blood.

2. Gardenia promotes pancreatic secretion: Dehydroxyl gardenoside from Gardenia promotes pancreatic secretion and has a clear effect of lowering pancreatic amylase, and can increase pancreaticobiliary flow.

3. Gardenia has antipyretic effects and effects on microorganisms: The alcohol extracts of Gardenia and its different processed products all have antipyretic effects, with raw Gardenia having the stronger antipyretic effect; ursolic acid is one of the effective components of Gardenia for cooling and calming. After charring by stir-frying, the ursolic acid content clearly decreases, so the antipyretic effect of stir-fried Gardenia is clearly weakened, while scorched Gardenia has none. The water infusion of Gardenia has an inhibitory effect on various skin fungi and an inhibitory effect on hemolytic streptococcus.

4. Other actions of Gardenia:

(1) Sedation: The water decoction of Gardenia has a sedative effect, and after scorching or charring by stir-frying, the sedative effect is clearly strengthened.

(2) Lowering blood pressure: The water decoction of Gardenia has a lasting blood pressure-lowering effect and an effect of preventing and treating atherosclerosis.

(3) Coagulation: Scorched Gardenia from Mount [Shan] has a clear coagulation effect, and can clearly shorten the coagulation time in mice.

(4) Inhibiting gastric acid: The water decoction of raw Gardenia has a clear inhibitory effect on total gastric acid secretion and pepsin activity in mice. After scorching by stir-frying, the inhibitory effect on the stomach is clearly weakened or eliminated.

(5) Purging: Dehydroxyl gardenoside and isogardenoside have a purgative effect.

(6) Accelerating healing: An ointment made from Gardenia extract can accelerate the healing of soft tissue.

The benefits of Gardenia tea

There is a Gardenia in the courtyard, and a few petals have fallen. A loving father picks them up, cleans them thoroughly, puts them in a teacup, pours on boiling water, and the room is filled with the fresh fragrance of Gardenia! A cup of Gardenia tea is made just like that!

Do you know what benefits Gardenia tea has?

When brewing Gardenia tea, adding a little honey can clear heat and stop coughing, and has a very good therapeutic effect on colds and fever.

Drinking Gardenia tea can also calm, stop bleeding, inhibit bacteria and clear lung heat. In addition, drinking Gardenia tea can also promote large intestine peristalsis, and can effectively prevent the onset of hemorrhoids and the occurrence of rectal cancer tumors.

The above is an introduction to the effects and benefits of Gardenia. I hope everyone enjoys today's article.