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Scientific Name:
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Fructus Gardeniae |
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English Name:
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Capejasmine Fruit |
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Chinese Name:
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èÙ×Ó |
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Source:
This herb is the ripe fruit of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis (family Rubiaceae), produced mainly in the provinces of Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Hunan, dried in sunlight after harvesting, and used unprepared or stir-baked to brown or to charcoal.
Properties:
bitter in flavour, cold in property, acting on the heart, lung, stomach and sanjiao channels
Effects:
purging fire, relieving dysphoria, clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, removing heat from the blood and stopping bleeding.
Indications:
1. Febrile diseases manifested as vexation, melancholia and restlessness. It is often 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, dysphoria, 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 gallbladder 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 (Zhizi Baipi 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.
Dosage and Administration:
3¡ª10g, decocted in water for an oral dose. The herb should used unprepared for clearing away heat and purging fire, while for removing heat from the blood to stop bleeding, the carbonized herb should be used.
Modern Researches:| Sweating and flushing are controled by sympathetic nerve. Geniposide can stimulate parasympathetic ganglion so that Sweating and flushing can be restrained. | 
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| When woman is in anxiety mode, she cannot ovulate.
The flavone type chemicals contained in Fructus Gardeniae stimulates the pituitary gland in the brain releasing more dopamine, and puts people in happy modes, helps ovulate.
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| Geniposidde helps to relieve male liver-gallbladder fire (infection and inflammation due to bacteria), and restrains the activity of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. | 
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| Gardenia extract contains the chemical "genipin", which can blocks the function of the enzyme called uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) and increase insulin secretion from the pancreas for type 2 diabetes. | 
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