Benefits of Gardenia Porridge

1. Purge fire and relieve restlessness: Suitable for heat disturbing the mind. a. Exogenous febrile disease, evil qi stagnation in the upper part of the body, restlessness and insomnia. b. Excessive fire poison, high fever, restlessness, and even delirium.

2. Cooling blood and detoxifying: used for heat toxicity in the blood. a. Blood heat, vomiting blood, nosebleed, and hematuria. b. Swollen throat and red eyes, heat toxicity sores, and real heat.

3. Clearing dampness and heat: Applicable to dampness and heat syndromes in liver, gallbladder and lower jiao. a. Dampness and heat in liver meridian, stagnation of fire, irritability, flank pain and bitter mouth. b. Dampness and heat jaundice and dampness and heat in lower jiao, hot and painful stranguria.

[Main Indications] It can clear away heat and relieve restlessness, clear away heat and promote urination, cool blood and detoxify. It is used for restlessness due to febrile diseases, jaundice and red urine, painful and astringent blood in the stranguria, vomiting and bleeding due to blood heat, swollen and painful eyes, fire poison sores and sprains.

The effect of Gardenia porridge

1. Promotes bile secretion and relieves jaundice:

The injection of gardenia water extract, crocin and crocetin into rabbits can significantly increase bile secretion and significantly contract the human gallbladder. It can also significantly reduce bilirubin in the blood and peripheral lymph fluid, and promote the rapid excretion of bilirubin in the blood.

2. Promote pancreatic secretion:

Gardenia jasminoides can promote pancreatic secretion and significantly reduce pancreatic amylase, and can increase pancreaticobiliary flow.

3. Antipyretic and anti-microbial effects

The alcohol extracts of gardenia and different processed products all have antipyretic effects, and the antipyretic effect of raw gardenia is stronger. Ursolic acid is one of the effective ingredients of gardenia that can reduce fever and calm the nerves. The ursolic acid content is significantly reduced after charring, so the antipyretic effect of fried gardenia is significantly weakened, while charred gardenia has no effect. Gardenia water extract has an inhibitory effect on a variety of skin fungi and hemolytic streptococci.

4. Others

(1) Sedative: Gardenia decoction has a sedative effect, and the sedative effect is significantly enhanced after it is stir-fried until it is charred.

(2) Blood pressure lowering: Gardenia decoction has a long-lasting blood pressure lowering effect and can prevent and treat atherosclerosis.

(3) Coagulation: Scorched Gardenia has a significant coagulation effect and can significantly shorten the coagulation time of mice.

(4) Inhibition of gastric acid: The decoction of raw gardenia has a significant inhibitory effect on the total gastric acid secretion and pepsin activity of mice. After frying, the inhibitory effect on the stomach is significantly weakened or eliminated.

(5) Laxative: Dehydroxygardenoside and isogardenoside have laxative effects.

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