| English
Name |
| Cape
Jasmine Fruit |
| Chinese
Name |
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| Picture |
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| Origin |
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Cape
Jasmine Fruit is the dried rip fruit of gardenia jasminoides
Ellis (Fam. Rubiaceae). |
| Nature
and Affinity |
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The
drug is bitter to the taste, cold in nature, and distributed
to the Heart, Lung and Tri-Jiao Channels. |
| Main
Active Ingredient |
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Gardenoside
(C17H24O10) |
| Precaution |
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Storage |
| Preserve
in a ventilated and dry place. |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Prolate-ovoid
or ellipsoid, 1.5~3.5 cm long, 1~1.5 cm in diameter. The outer
surface reddish-yellow or brownish-red, with 6 longitudinal
winged ribs and a conspicuous longitudinal and branched vein
between two ribs. Summit bearing remains of sepals, base somewhat
tapering and having a remain of fruit stalk. Pericarp thin and
brittle, somewhat lustrous; the inner surface relatively pale
in colour, lustrous, with 2~3 raised false septa. Seeds numerous,
flattened-ovoid, aggregated into a mass, deep red or reddish-yellow,
with fine and dense warts on the surface. Odour slight; taste,
slightly sour and bitter. |
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ACTION |
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To reduce
fire and ease the mind, to eliminate damp-heat, and to remove
heat from blood and counteract toxicity. |
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INDICATIONS |
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Febrile
diseases with restlessness; jaundice with dark urine; hematuria
with difficult painful urination; hemoptysis and epistaxis
caused by heat in the blood; inflammation of the eye; boils
and sores; external use for sprains and bruises.
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REFERENTIAL
ADVICE |
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1.Clearing
away intense fire and relieving fidgets
For the
treatment of febrile disease with fidgets or irascibility,
restlessness, it is often combined with Semen Sojae Preparatum,
for the combination of these two drugs has the effect on reducing
heart-fire and relieving fidgets. For the treatment of febrile
disease with unconciousness and delirium due to abundance
of heat-toxicant, it is often combined with the drugs for
reducing heat, purging fire and relieving toxicants, such
as Rhizoma Coptidis, Radix Scutellariae and Cortex Phellodendri;
for hot eyes, dry mouth and thirst, fidgets, with Flos Chrysanthemi,
Radix Scutellariae, Radix Glycyrrhizae, etc.
2.Clearing
away heat and resolving dampness
The drug
having the functions of facilitating the flow of the bile
and relieving jaundice, is indicated in jaundice due to damp-heat,
accompanied with scanty urine in dark color; and for the treatment
of jaundice, it is often with Herba Artemisiae Scopariae,
Cortex Phellodendri, etc,; for the treatment of stranguria
with bloody urine, painful micturition with hot sensation
and with urine in dark color, with Radix Rehmanniae, Caulis
Akebiae, Semen Plantaginis, etc.
3.Reducing
heat in the blood and arresting hemorrhage
For the
treatment of spitting blood, epistaxis, dysentery with hematochezia,
painful urination with hematuria, etc., it is often combined
with drugs for reducing heat in the blood.
Besides,
its powder mixed with vinegar can be used to treat injury
or sprain, hematoma with pain and swelling; and it is often
mixed with white of eggs and is used to treat scald and burn.
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TIPS |
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A
paste of the herb with flour and wine is used as poultice on
twists, sprains, strains, bruises, and abscesses; very effective
in injuries to tendons, ligaments, joints, and muscles. |
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