Gardenias are from China and Japan. Can
be found as an ornamental plant in pakarangan in mountainous areas with
an altitude of 400 m above sea level and only fruitful if an altitude
of 3,000 feet above sea level.
In China, the flowers are used as a flavor enhancer in tea leaves. The fruit is edible and can be used as a yellow dye in foods (such as turmeric). Propagation by seed, transplants, or stem cuttings.
The nature and efficacy
Gardenia fruit tastes bitter, cold in nature, with affinity to the heart meridian, liver, lung, stomach, and Sanjiao. Gardenia fruit serves as a heat and flame cleaning, cooling the blood, removing toxins, and eliminate moisture. Savor
the fruit of gardenia is increasing function of the heart and calm the
emotions (sedative), malancarkan flow of bile into the intestine
(kolagoga), anti-inflammatory (antiflogistik), antibiotics, fever
reliever (anti piretik), sputum laxative, laxative urine (diuretic),
conditioning the blood, the bidder toxins (detoksikan), stop bleeding (hemostatis), and destroy blood clots. Hepatoprotektor gardenia fruit extract efficacious, which is to protect the liver from damage caused by toxins.
Roots and flowers efficacious laxative period. Flowers efficacious hemostatis, tranquilizers (sedatives), and laxative urine (diuretic). Content of Chemical
Fruits
contain essential oils, gardenin, gardenosid, geniposid, genipin-1,
D-gentiobioside, gardoside (8.10 dehydrologanin), scandoside menthyl
ester, glikosid,-sitosterol,-mannitol, nonacosane, krosetin, krosin,
klorogenin, tannin, and dextrose. Chloroform Gardenin is golden yellow, soluble in alcohol and chloroform. Fruit peel contains ursolic acid.
The leaves contain saponins, flavonoids, polyphenols, and essential oils.
Part Used
The plant is used as a medicine is ripe fruit (zhi zi), and roots. Leaves and flowers are also used as medicine. Fruit picked after cooking, then steamed or boiled briefly before being dried for storage. The fruit can be used fresh or after drying. The leaves are picked throughout the year. After being washed thoroughly, then dry in the sun to dry.
Indication
Gardenia fruit are used to address:
* Diseases with fever which provide a high fever, irritability, delirium, impaired consciousness,
*
Inflammation of the liver (hepatitis), jaundice (jaundice) in
accompanied by fever, no appetite, little urine (oliguria), and urinary
pain (dysuria),
* Meningitis lenders bladder (cystitis),
* Inflammation of the breast (mastitis),
Bleeding
from such hot blood throwing up blood (hematemesis), blood urine
(hematuria), blood stools, coughing up blood (hemoptysis), nosebleeds
(epistaxis),
* Difficult to sleep (insomnia),
Sore throat, canker sores, toothache,
* Dysentery, snake bites,
* Eye swelling and pain (acute conjunctivitis), and
* High blood pressure (hypertension).
Gardenia leaves are used remedy to overcome:
* Fever,
* Shortness of breath,
* High blood pressure (hypertension), and
* Thrush (mouthwash).
How to Use
For drugs taken, use 30-60 g or 3-9 g root pieces, then boil and drink the water
For external use only, minced fresh gardenia fruit until smooth, then add egg whites or white Arak. Next,
attach the parts of the body, such as bruises, sprains, inflammation of
the skin (boils, abscesses, ulcers, chicken snake / herpes zoster),
burns, scalded, and toothache. Pasta
gardenia finely ground herbs and mixed with flour and white wine is
very effective for the treatment traima in tendons, ligaments, joints,
and muscles. In Vietnam, gardenia flower used topically to address the problems of the eyes.
Farmokogis effects and Outcomes Research
Studies in rats and rabbits show that the gardenia fruit and koleretik kolagoga efficacious.
Extra ethanol gardenia fruit aktivitar spontaneous decrease in animals that indicate a sedative effect. In addition, the antipyretic efficacy were also found.
Cooking water or ethanol extracts of gardenia fruit showed hypotensive effects in animal experiments.
Gardenia
fruit decoction is also efficacious antibacterial and in experiments in
vitro inhibit the activity of a variety of skin fungus.
Note
Do not prime gardenia fruit stew if you are suffering from diarrhea.
Indication
Gardenia fruit are used to address:
* Diseases with fever which provide a high fever, irritability, delirium, impaired consciousness,
*
Inflammation of the liver (hepatitis), jaundice (jaundice) in
accompanied by fever, no appetite, little urine (oliguria), and urinary
pain (dysuria),
* Meningitis lenders bladder (cystitis),
* Inflammation of the breast (mastitis),
Bleeding
from such hot blood throwing up blood (hematemesis), blood urine
(hematuria), blood stools, coughing up blood (hemoptysis), nosebleeds
(epistaxis),
* Difficult to sleep (insomnia),
Sore throat, canker sores, toothache,
* Dysentery, snake bites,
* Eye swelling and pain (acute conjunctivitis), and
* High blood pressure (hypertension).
Gardenia leaves are used remedy to overcome:
* Fever,
* Shortness of breath,
* High blood pressure (hypertension), and
* Thrush (mouthwash).