What is the effect of soaking gardenia in water?

Efficacy: Relieve fire and trouble, clear away heat and dampness, cool blood and detoxify; External use to reduce swelling and relieve pain.

Part of the medicine: Dried ripe fruit of the Rubiaceae plant gardenia.

Sexual taste: bitter, cold.

Return to the meridians: return to the heart, lungs, and three focal meridians.

Indications: It is used for fever upset, damp heat jaundice, gonorrhea astringent pain, blood heat vomiting, eye redness, swelling and pain, fire poison sores, and external treatment of sprains and contusions.

Dosage: decoction, 6-10g. Appropriate amount of raw products for external use, adjust and apply at the end of grinding.

Contraindications: Gardenia bitter cold hurts the stomach, spleen deficiency and loose stools should not be used.

Processing method: remove the fruit stalk and impurities, steam until steaming or put it in boiling water and slightly blanch, take it out, dry and crush.

Physiological characteristics: Gardenia is a shrub, tall rice; Twigs are often short-haired, cylindrical, gray. The flowering period is from March to July, and the fruiting period is from May to February of the following year.

It is born in the wilderness, hills, valleys, slopes, shrubs or forests by the stream at an altitude of 10-1500 meters, and likes warm and humid climate, good sunlight but can not withstand strong sunlight, suitable for growing in loose, fertile, well-drained, lightly viscous acidic soil, strong resistance to harmful gases, strong germination, and resistance to pruning.

Gardenia tea

1.Fever and fever. This product is bitter and cold, clears the three scorched fire evils, and has the effect of clearing the heart and removing troubles.

2.Hot and humid jaundice. Because it can clear the liver and gallbladder dampness and heat and reduce jaundice.

3.Bloody fever vomiting.

4.Sores, ulcers, swollen poison, bruises. According to the "Book of Scriptures", Gardenia "has five evil spirits in the Lord, hot gas in the stomach, red face and wine sores on the stomach and nose, and white leprosy and red leprosy sores". "Materia Medica" addendum" said: "Diarrhea three scorching fire, clear the stomach and blood, cure heat and heartache, relieve fever and depression, and line qi." ”

Gardenia peel (peel) is biased towards reaching the surface and removing the heat of the skin; Gardenia kernels (seeds) tend to go inside and clear the heat inside. Raw use of qi to separate and extinguish fire; Stir-fried black will enter the blood and stop the bleeding. Because this product hurts the stomach with bitter cold, spleen deficiency and loose stools should not be used.

The above content refers to Encyclopedia-Gardenia.

Benefits: Gardenia has a bitter and cold taste, and returns to the heart, lungs, and three Jiao meridians. Taken internally, it can relieve fire and trouble, clear away heat and dampness, cool blood and detoxify; External use to reduce swelling and relieve pain.

Therefore, this tea has the effect of purging fire and removing troubles, cooling blood and detoxifying, and is suitable for heart and liver fire is more upset, irritability, pharyngeal swelling and red eyes, mouth and tongue sores, etc.

The fruit produced after the bloom and failure of the gardenia is called "gardenia", which is a medicinal material with the same origin as medicine and food, and the crocin and saffron acid contained in the gardenia are a rare water-soluble carotenoids that can be used as food additives. Gardenia is also a good product to relieve the heat in midsummer. Notes:

Gardenia is usually used in 6-10 grams. Gardenia bitter cold hurts the stomach, spleen deficiency and loose stools should not be used, not more than long-term dose.