Gardenia fruit, Zhi Zi 执子

Cape Jasmine fruit
Zhi Zi (TCM)
Picture Gardenia jasminoides
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 1842

Picture Gardenia Fruit, Zhi Zi (Adam, 2017)

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Botanical name:


Gardenia jasminoides

Parts used:


Fruit

Temperature & Taste:


Cold, dry. Bitter

Classifications:


B. Clear Strong Heat or Fire

Uses:


1. Clears Heat:
-Fever with restlessness (Chinese Pharmacopoeia)
-insomnia, irritability, delirious speech
-damp-heat or heat sores of the Face and Mouth
-‘disperses pathogenic Heat, Wind and toxin, eliminates fever in an epidemic’ (Zhen Quan)
-‘It treats flushed face with rosacea, white, red pertinacious skin lesions, sores and tinea’ (Shen Nong Ben Cao)
-‘Eye inflammation with pain and hot feeling’. (Ming Yi Bie Lu)

2. Clears Damp Heat, Promotes Urine:
-painful urination, dribbling urine
-Damp-heat obstruction of the Liver and Gall Bladder
-‘treats Jaundice of five types, and five kinds of Stranguria’. (Zhen Quan)

3. Clears Heat, Moves Blood, Stops Bleeding:
-Bleeding caused by Heat in the Blood; hemoptysis, hematuria, irregular Uterine Bleeding
–‘dissolves blood stasis in a wound or injury’. (Li Shi Zhen)
-often charred when used to stop bleeding

4. Externally:
-moves the Blood, eases Pain; powder applied with vinegar or alcohol


Dose:


Decoction: 6–9 grams;
Powder: 500mg–3 grams

Preparation:


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Main Combinations:


1. Gardenia Zhi Zi with … available in PRO version
2. Constrained Qi, Gardenia Zhi Zi with … available in PRO version
3. Heat with irritability and restlessness, combine Gardenia Zhi Zi with … available in PRO version
4. Heat in the Heart with scanty, brown urine, Gardenia Zhi Zi … available in PRO version
5. Clear Heat and Toxin in Mouth and Tongue Sores, Gum swelling: Gardenia Zhi Zi … available in PRO version
6. Diarrhea or Leukorrhea from Damp-Heat, Gardenia Zhi Zi with … available in PRO version
7. Liver heat, Gardenia Zhi Zi with … available in PRO version
8. Gall Bladder inflammation or obstruction, Gardenia Zhi Zi with … available in PRO version
9. Jaundice:
i. Gardenia Zhi Zi with … available in PRO version
ii. Gardenia Zhi Zi with … available in PRO version
10. Painful, dribbling urine, … available in PRO version
11. Externally for Sprains:
i. powdered Gardenia Zhi Zi with … available in PRO version
ii. powdered Gardenia Zhi Zi with … available in PRO version

Major Formulas:


An Gong Niu Huang Wan
Dang Gui Long Hui Wan
Dan Zhi Xiao Yan San (Jia Wei Xiao Yao San)
Fang Feng Tong Sheng San
Huang Lian Jie Du Tang
Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
Tian Ma Gou Teng Yin

Cautions:


1. Not suitable for Cold and weak digestion

Main Preparations used: