Top Quality Fructus gardeniae

Fructus gardeniae

Evergreen Shrub 0.5-2 m tall with fine hairs on young branches. Leaves opposite or trifoliate, leathery, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 7-14 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, apex acuminate or shortly acuminate, entire, both surfaces smooth, base cuneate; stipule short; stipules membranous, base synthesized into a sheath. Flowers solitary at branches or leaf axils, large, White, very fragrant; pedicel very short, often angled; Calyx tube ovate or Obovate, distally inflated, Apex 5-6-lobed, lobes linear or linear-lanceolate; Corolla convolute, goblet-shaped, Corolla Tube narrowly Terete, Ca. 3 mm, lobes 5 or more, obovate-oblong; Stamens 6, inserted at Corolla throat, filaments extremely short or absent, anthers linear; Ovary Inferior 1-celled, style thick, stigma clavate. Fruit obovate or oblong, with wing-shaped Longitudinal Shuttle 5 ~ 8,2.5 ~ 4.5 cm long, yellow, fruit apex with persistent calyx. Florescence May ~ July. Fruit period 8 ~ 11 months.

Dry Fruit long oval or oval, 1-4.5 cm long, 0.6-2 cm thick. Surface dark red or red yellow, with 5 ~ 8 Longitudinal Edge. Apex Remnant Sepals, other end slightly pointed, with Petiole scar. PERICARP thin and crisp, inside surface red yellow, have luster, have 2 ~ 3 protuberant pseudomembrane, inside have much seed, agglutinate become a ball. Seeds Oblate, dark red or red-yellow, densely with minute verrucous processes. Dip into the water to make it bright yellow. Slightly Sour in taste. To a small, complete, full, inside and outside red color is preferred. A large, brown-yellow skin, kernel more thin, red-yellow color quality times.

Function indications:

Fruit: Purging fire except vexed, heat-clearing diuretic, cooling blood detoxification. For Heat upset, jaundice and urine red, bleeding and astringent pain, bleeding and heat vomiting, eyes red swelling pain, fire and toxic sores; external treatment of contusion and pain.                         

Root: Purging Fire and detoxifying, clearing heat and removing dampness, cooling blood and dispersing stasis. For Hepatitis A, bruises, toothaches.

Pharmacological Action ：

1 choleretic action

2 sedative, hypotensive action

3 anti-microbial action

4 other effects, Gardenia alcohol extract on rabbit and rat intestinal smooth muscle in vitro, low concentration excitation, high concentration inhibition. The extract is made into ointment, which can accelerate the healing of soft tissue.