Gardenia is not only a kind of plant, but also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, it is also a dish on our table, here we will share with you about gardenia ~

The efficacy and role of gardenia

Gardenia flowers, fruits, leaves and roots can be used as medicines, generally brewed tea or decoction soup to take. Gardenia contains gardenia glucoside, dehydroxyl gardenia glucoside, gardenia subglucoside methyl ester and a small amount of gardenia glucoside, has the effect of clearing away heat and diuretic, cooling blood and detoxification, jaundice, blood gonorrhea pain and astringency, eye redness and pain, fire sores, lowering blood pressure and so on. One of gardenia fruit into medicine, main treatment fever high fever, upset insomnia, real fire toothache, mouth and tongue sores, nose gauge, vomit blood, conjunctivitis, sores and poison, jaundice type infectious hepatitis, serovar disease, urinate blood; Externally treats traumatic hemorrhage, sprains and contusions. Roots into the main treatment of infectious hepatitis, bruises, wind and fire toothache. Compendium of Materia Medica" said it "pleases the color," the "thousand gold wing" face paste with. Yunnan Materia Medica says it "diarrhea lung fire, stop lung heat cough, stop epistaxis blood, eliminate phlegm."

Role of gardenia

1. Gardenia can relieve bile and yellow: the aqueous extract of gardenia and saffronin, saffron acid rabbit injection on bile secretion has obvious increase, the human gallbladder has obvious contraction effect. And it can significantly reduce bilirubin in blood and terminal lymph fluid. It can promote the rapid excretion of bilirubin in the blood.

2. Gardenia promotes pancreatic secretion: Gardenia gardenia dehydroxy gardenia glycosides have promote pancreatic secretion and have significant reduction of pancreatic amylase, and can increase pancreatic and biliary flow.

3. Gardenia has antipyretic and effect on microorganisms: gardenia and different concoctions of alcoholic extract have antipyretic efficacy,

to the raw gardenia antipyretic efficacy is stronger, ursolic acid is one of the effective components of gardenia cooling sedative. After frying charcoal ursolic acid content obviously reduces, so the antipyretic effect of fried gardenia is obviously weakened, burnt gardenia is not. The water immersion liquid of gardenia has inhibitory effect on many kinds of skin fungi, has inhibitory effect on hemolytic streptococcus.

4. other effects of gardenia:

(1) sedative: gardenia water decoction has sedative effect, fried charcoal, fried charcoal after sedative effect is obviously strengthened.

(2) antihypertensive: gardenia decoction has long-lasting antihypertensive effect and preventing and controlling atherosclerosis.

(3) Coagulation: Jiao gardenia has obvious coagulation effect, can obviously shorten the coagulation time of mice.

(4) inhibit gastric acid: raw gardenia flower decoction has obvious inhibitory effect on total gastric acid secretion and pepsin activity in mice. After frying and scorching, the inhibitory effect on stomach is obviously weakened or eliminated.

(5) laxative: dehydroxy gardenia glycoside, isogardenia glycoside has laxative effect.

(6) Accelerate healing: Gardenia extract made into ointment can accelerate soft tissue healing.

Gardenia edible method

1, cold gardenia

Gardenia 500 grams, green onion, ginger each appropriate amount. The gardenia flower removes the impurity and washes clean, puts in the boiling water to cook a boil, the fishing out drains the water, the air-cooling uses the chopsticks to grasp the loose, puts in the clean white porcelain plate, sprinkles on the onion flower, the ginger silk, pours the person fragrant oil, the old vinegar, the discretion puts in the salt, the monosodium glutamate, mixes evenly to be able to be. This dish is fragrant and tender, has the effect of clearing heat and cooling the blood, detoxifying and stopping dysentery. Applicable to lung heat cough, carbuncle, intestinal wind blood and other diseases.

2, gardenia egg flower

Gardenia flower 200 grams, 3 eggs, green onion, ginger each appropriate amount. Gardenia remove impurity clean, put into boiling water slightly mourning, cut into pieces; Egg knocked into the bowl, beat well; Gardenia into the egg, stir evenly; Add oil in the pot,

burn to eighty percent heat, pour people gardenia egg flower, fry, sprinkle onion, ginger, people salt, monosodium glutamate, fry well. This dish is crisp and tender, has the effect which clears the heat and nourishes the stomach, the wide intestine benefits the gas, applies to the stomach heat halitosis, the gums swells the pain, the stool is not smooth and so on the disease.

3, gardenia fried small bamboo shoots

Gardenia 200 grams, shelled small bamboo shoots 150 grams, 100 grams of bacon, green onion, ginger each moderate. Gardenia remove impurities wash, slightly blanch; Small bamboo shoots cut into thin slices diagonally; Bacon cut into small dices; pot of gas, burn to sixty percent heat, will gardenia, small bamboo shoots, bacon together with the pouring of people in the pot, stir-frying a few times, add green onion, ginger, and then stir-frying until cooked, discretionary addition of monosodium glutamate, table salt can be. This dish is light and fragrant, crisp and refreshing, with the spleen and stomach, heat and intestinal effect, suitable for gastrointestinal stagnation, dietary reduction, abdominal distension and constipation and other diseases.

Contraindications of Gardenia

Gardenia is not recommended for those who have a weak spleen and loose stools.