Gardenia florida (Shanzhizi)

Distribution:
Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Zhejiang, Fujian provinces of China.

Properties (characteristics):
Bitter, cold, non-toxic.

Channels (meridians) entered:
Heart, liver, lung, stomach, triple warmer (san jiao)

Actions & Indications:
Being used as antipyretic, Insomnia, irritability, high fever with delusion.
Infection with fever with vomiting blood, Nasal Bleeding, blood in urine, swollen red eyes, boils.
Jaundice due to liver or gall bladder infection.

Medical Function:
1. Effects on digestive system: it can lower the increased liver enzyme AST on animal caused by total ligation of bile duct. The ingredient, geniposide, can inhibit the secretion of stomach acid. It can promote the secretion of pancreattic enzyme and promote bile secretion..

2. Effects on circulation system

3. Effects on CNS: the ursolic acid can inhibit the CNS

4. Antibiotic effect: it can inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, Neisseria meningitidis, Neisseria catarrhal. The decoction can kill adult Schistosoma leptospirosis. The water of extract in vitro can inhibit a variety of skin fungi.

5. Anti-inflammatory: The ethanol extract and also the water extract of zhi zi, ethyl acetate portion and geniposide have a certain anti-inflammatory and can heal soft tissue injury. Ointment made of the extract can accelerate the healing of soft tissue.

Chemical ingredients:
gardenoside 
geniposide 
Genipin-1-β-D- gentiobioside
shanzhiside 
gardoside 
scandoside methyl ester 
deacetylasperulosidic acid methyl ester 
geniposidic acid 
10-O-acetylgeniposide[5]; 10-O
1-β--glucogeniposide
6"-O-P-coumaroyl-genipin-gentiobioside
chlorogenic acid 
3, 4-di-O-caffeoylquinic acid 3, 4
3-O-caffeoyl-4-O-sinapoyl quinic acid 3-O
3, 5-di-O-caffeoyl-4-O- (3-hydroxy-3-methyl) glutaroylquinic acid
3, 4-dicaffeoyl-5-(3-hydroxy-5-methylglutaroyl) quinic acid[
jasminoidin
Picrocrocinic acid
etc,....
 
Dosage:
3 - 12 g per day
 
Cautions:
Contraindication in loose stool or loss of appetite due to pixu (spleen deficient) with yangxu (yang deficient).