What are the benefits of eating gardenia

Gardenia has a fragrant smell and is a common ornamental and medicinal plant with many medicinal values. If you usually feel chest tightness and irritability, gardenia has a good effect in eliminating worries and can make your heart calmer. Gardenia can relieve fever. If you have been feeling hot and damp recently, eating gardenia can also have a detoxifying effect. Gardenia can be used as an ingredient in dishes.

Gardenia contains cellulose, which can promote colon peristalsis, help excretion of stool, and prevent the onset of hemorrhoids and the occurrence of rectal cancer. It’s edible, and there’s even a recipe for cold-mixed gardenias.

1. Clear away heat and relieve restlessness: Gardenia is suitable for relieving heat and disturbing the mind.

a. Exogenous febrile disease, with evil accumulated in the upper part of the body, causing restlessness and insomnia.

b. Fire poison is raging, with high fever, irritability, and even delirium.

2. Cooling blood and detoxifying: Gardenia is often used for heat and toxicity in the blood.

a. Blood heat and abnormal flow, vomiting blood, nosebleed, and hematuria.

b. Swollen throat and red eyes, hot toxic sores and ulcers, are caused by actual heat.

3. Clear away dampness and heat: Gardenia is suitable for dampness and heat syndromes in the liver, gallbladder and lower abdomen.

a. Damp-heat in the liver meridian causes stagnation of fire, restlessness, irritability, flank pain and bitter taste in the mouth.

b. Jaundice caused by damp-heat and downward movement of damp-heat, painful and astringent stranguria caused by heat.

1. Gardenia can promote bile secretion and relieve jaundice: Injection of gardenia water extract, crocin and crocetin into rabbits has a significant effect on increasing bile secretion and a significant contraction effect on the human gallbladder. It can also significantly reduce the bilirubin in the blood and peripheral lymph fluid. It can promote the rapid excretion of bilirubin in the blood.

2. Gardenia promotes pancreatic secretion: Gardenia dehydroxygardena glycoside can promote pancreatic secretion and significantly reduce pancreatic amylase, and can increase pancreatic bile flow.

3. Gardenia has antipyretic and anti-microbial effects: Gardenia and its alcohol extracts in different preparations have antipyretic effects, with raw gardenia having a stronger antipyretic effect. Ursolic acid is one of the active ingredients in gardenia that can reduce fever and calm the nerves. The ursolic acid content was significantly reduced after charcoal frying, so the antipyretic effect of fried gardenia was significantly weakened, but that of charred gardenia was not. The water extract of gardenia has inhibitory effects on many skin fungi and hemolytic streptococci.