Capejasmine (Zhizi)
| Pharmaceutical Name: | Fructus Gardeniae |
| Botanical Name: | Gardenia jaminoides Ellis |
| Common Name: | Gardenia fruit Capejasmine fruit |
| Source of Earliest Record: | Shennong Bencao Jing |
| art Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: | The fruit is gathered in autumn or winter when it is ripe. Either the raw herb or the carbonized herb is used. |
| Properties and Taste: | Bitter and cold |
| Meridian: | Heart, liver, lung, stomach and triple jiao |
| Functions: | To clear heat and reduce fire To cool blood and release toxins To eliminate dampness |
| Indications and Combinations: | 1. To clear heat and reduce fire; To cool blood and release toxins; To eliminate dampness. *Use with Prepared soybean (Douchi), Forsythia fruit (Lianqiao) and Scutellaria root (Huangqin). 2. Jaundice with fever and dysuria. *Use with Oriental wormwood (Yinchenhao), Rhubarb (Dahuang) and Phellodendron bark (Huangbai). 3. Extravasation caused by heat in the blood manifested as vomiting blood, epistaxis and hematuria. *Use with Imperata rhizome (Baimaogen), Fresh rehmannia root (Shengdihuang) and Scutellaria root (Huangqin). 4. Boils and carbuncles. *Use with Coptis root (Huanglian), Scutellaria (Huangqin) and Honeysuckle flower (Jinyinhua) |
| Dosage: | 3-10 g |
| Cautions: | The herb is contraindicated in cases with weakness of the spleen and diarrhea. |