Gardenia gardenia is the dried mature fruit of Gardenia jasminoides, harvested in September-November when the fruit is ripe reddish-yellow, remove the fruit stalks and impurities, raw, fried or charcoal with fried.
Sexual flavor: bitter, cold, to the heart, lung, San Jiao meridian.
Functions: diarrhea fire in addition to annoyance, clearing heat and diuresis, cooling blood and detoxification, external swellings and pain relief, used for heat disease upset, damp-heat jaundice, gonorrhea and astringent pain, blood-heat vomiting and epistaxis, fire-poisoning sores and ulcers, external treatment of sprains and contusions and pains, burnt gardenia: cools the blood, stops blood, used for blood-heat vomiting and epistaxis, blood in urine and disintegration.
Usage and dosage: decoction of 6-10g, external use of raw products appropriate amount, grinding and dressing.
Precautions: This product is bitter and cold to hurt the stomach, and should not be used if the spleen is weak and loose stools.
6 Xia Kucao
Xia Kucao is the dried fruit spike of Xia Kucao, family Labiatae, and the spike is brownish-red harvested in summer, remove impurities, sun-dried, and used raw.
Characteristics: Pungent, bitter, cold, attributed to the liver, gallbladder meridian.
Functions and Indications: Clearing the liver and diarrhea, brightening the eyes, dispersing knots and eliminating swelling, used for eye redness and swelling pain, eyeball night pain, headache and dizziness, scrofula, gall tumors, carbuncle, breast fetish, breast swelling and pain.
Dosage: Decoction of 9-15g, or boiled cream.
Precautions: caution should be taken if the spleen and stomach are cold.
7 Gu Jing Cao
Gu Jing Cao is the head of the dried flower stem of Gu Jing Cao, family Gu Jing Cao, autumn inflorescence, the inflorescence, together with the flower stem, sun-dried, cut into pieces, and used raw.
Sexual flavor: pungent, sweet, flat, to the liver, lung meridian.
Functions and Indications: Dispersing wind-heat, brightening the eyes, reducing cataracts, used for wind-heat, eye redness, swelling and pain, cataracts in the eyes, wind-heat headache.
Usage and dosage: decoction, 5-10g.
Precautions: not suitable for people with eye diseases of yin deficiency and blood deficiency.
8 Mimonghua
Mimonghua is the dried flower buds and inflorescences of Mimonghua of Strychnine, harvested in spring when the flowers are not open, remove impurities, sun-dried, and used raw.
Characteristics and attributes: sweet, slightly cold, attributed to the liver, gallbladder meridian.
Functions and Indications: Clearing away heat and fire, nourishing the liver and brightening the eyes, retiring cataracts, used for eye redness and swelling pain, tearing and shyness, cataracts in the eyes, darkness of the eyes due to deficiency of the liver and dimming of vision.
Dosage: Decoction of 3-9g.