Pharmaceutical name:

英文药名：

Fructus Gardeniae Jasminoidis

Latin botanical name:

拉丁名：

Gardenia jasminoides Ellis

Pron. in Japanese:

日語發音：

山梔子sanshishi﹔ 梔子 kuchinashi or shishi

Pron. in Korean:

韓語發音：

ch'icha

Pron. in Cantonese:

粤語發音：

saan1 zi1 zi2

Other Names:

別名﹕

mu dan 木丹，yue tao 越桃，xian zhi 鲜支。

Common Name:

英文名：

gardenia fruit

Distribution:

分佈﹕

Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Zhejiang, Fujian

湖南﹐江西﹐湖北﹐浙江﹐福建等省。

Properties (characteristics)﹕

性味﹕

bitter, cold, non-toxic.

苦﹐寒﹐ 無毒。

Channels (meridians) entered:

歸經﹕

heart, liver, lung, stomach, triple warmer (san jiao)

心﹐肝﹐肺﹐胃﹐三焦。

Actions & Indications:

主治﹕

being used as antipyretic, insomnia and  irritability, high fever with delusion.

infection with fever with vomiting blood, nose bleeding, blood in urine, swollen red eyes, boils.

jaundice due to liver or gall bladder infection.

1.熱病發熱，心煩不眠，或高熱狂躁，神昏譫語。
2.熱毒實火引起之吐血，鼻衂，尿血，目赤腫痛及瘡瘍腫毒等症。
3.肝膽濕熱所致之發黃症。

Medical Function:

药理：

1. effects on digestive system

2. effects on circulation system

3. effects on CNS

4. antibiotic and anti-inflammatory

5. toxicity effects

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Chemical ingredients:

化學成份：

1. gardenoside; geniposide^[1]; genipingentiobioside^[2]; shanzhiside^[3]; gardoside; scandoside methyl ester; deacetylasperulosidic acid methyl ester; geniposidic acid^[4]; 10-O-acetylgeniposide^[5]; 6"-O-P-coumaroyl-genipin-gentiobioside^[6]; 1-beta-glucogeniposide^[7].

2. chlorogenic acid; 3, 4-di-O-caffeoylquinic acid; 3-O-caffeoyl-4-O-sinapoyl quinic acid; 3, 5-di-O-caffeoyl-4-O- (3-hydroxy-3-methyl) glutaroylquinic acid^[6]; 3, 4-dicaffeoyl-5-(3-hydroxy-5-methylglutaroyl) quinic acid^[8]; jasminoidin^[9]; Picrocrocinic acid^[5].

3. gardenin; crocin; crocetin; alpha-crocetin^[9].

4. D-mannitol; beta-sitosterol; nonacosane ^{[9, 11]}; ursolic acid^[12].

Dosage:

每日用量﹕

3 - 12 g per day

3 ~ 12 克。

Samples of formulae:

處方舉例：

long dan xie gan wan 龍膽瀉肝丸

long dan xie gan tang 龍膽瀉肝湯

Modern Research:

现代研究：

to be loaded

Cautions:

禁忌：

contraindication in loose stool or loss of appetite due to pixu (spleen deficient) with yangxu (yang deficient).

Geniposide caused diarrhea in laboratory mice.

梔子甙 曾經使試驗室小鼠腹瀉。 脾虛兼陽虛而便溏者忌用。