Gardenia jasminoides is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine for "clearing away heat and drying dampness". In daily life, many people drink gardenia jasmine soaked in water. Its effect on helping people clear away heat and toxins is very good.
Today I will briefly share with my friends about the efficacy and consumption taboos of gardenia. The efficacy and role of gardenia
Gardenia is bitter in taste and cold in nature. The bitter and cold nature is best for clearing away heat, so gardenia has high medicinal value in clearing away heat and detoxifying.
Li Shizhen also said in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that gardenia can be used as medicine to "purge triple burner fire evil, clear the stomach and epigastrium, relieve stagnation and heat, and relieve qi stagnation." It can be seen that the scope of gardenia's heat-clearing and detoxifying effects is still Relatively speaking, it has a good effect on clearing away the heat, poison and fire evil in the body, middle and lower three burners of the human body.
1. Gardenia can remove dampness and heat
Gardenia is bitter and sinking, and can clear away heat when cold. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that its medicinal effect is best for reducing fire, causing dampness and heat to come out of the urine.
For example, gardenia can be used as medicine to relieve symptoms of damp-heat jaundice, poor urination, and hot stranguria and pain caused by accumulation of dampness and heat in the lower Jiao.
2. Gardenia can remove heat in the internal organs
Gardenia can purge the fire of the triple burner, so it can also clear and purge the stagnant heat in the upper and lower organs. .
For example, when our heart-fire is strong, we often experience symptoms such as irritability, palpitations, and insomnia; when stomach-fire is strong, we often experience symptoms such as dry mouth, bad breath, and aphthous ulcers; when liver-fire is strong, It will also be accompanied by symptoms such as poor mood, fullness in the chest and abdomen...
For such conditions, gardenia has a certain relief effect. However, it is more often used in combination with other medicinal materials, which can achieve better results.
3. Gardenia can eliminate the poison of sores and carbuncles
When there is fire evil in our body and the heat poison is strong, it is most likely to produce some nameless redness and swelling of sores and carbuncles on the surface of the skin. Gardenia also has a very good effect on eliminating heat, poison, sores and swelling.
Under normal circumstances, gardenia alone can be effective for mild heat sores and carbuncles; if it is more serious, it can also be used in combination with forsythia, dandelion, and honeysuckle. Contraindications for eating gardenias
Gardenia belongs to the bitter-cold category of Chinese medicinal materials. Although these Chinese medicinal materials have excellent properties of clearing away heat and purging fire, they are also harmful to people's health. Therefore, the dosage of gardenia for medicinal purposes should not be too large, generally within 10g. For daily health use, less than 5g each time is enough.
Especially for those who do not have heat poisoning and fire evil in their bodies, and who have a weak constitution and weak spleen and stomach functions, they should try to avoid eating gardenias in their lives.