In Bali, the plant is known by the name of the mascot Jempiring and interest Denpasar.
Gardenia an upright shrub with a height of 1-2 m. The stem is woody, branched, young twigs wax coated, with brownish-green color.
Benefits.
This flower is a commodity cut flowers, used in bouquets and corsages. The leaves can be used as a remedy thrush and roots as a remedy toothache.Fruit contains crocin (one kind karotenoida), bright yellow as found in saffron. Dried fruit is a coloring agent. In Japan, the dyes of gardenia used for dyeing textiles and dyes traditional cakes (wagashi) and pickled radish (takuan).
Benefits gardenia plants.
Gardenia originated from China and Japan. Can be found as an ornamental plant in pakarangan in mountainous areas with an altitude of 400 m above sea level and only bear fruit if an elevation of about 3,000 feet above sea level.Upright shrub with a height of 1-2 m has a round rod woody, branched, young twigs, and leaves waxed. Located opposite leaves or rocky three, thick and smooth as the skin, short-stemmed elliptical or ovoid shape breech, the tip and the base tapering, flat edge, upper surface shiny, 4.5 to 13 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, green color old. Single flower, short-stemmed, white color, out of the top branches, smells wonderful. Fruit ovoid shape, thin skin, containing a yellow pigment, and berbji much.
In China, the flowers are used as a flavor enhancer in tea leaves. The fruit is edible and can be used as a yellow dye in foods (such as turmeric). Propagation by seed, transplant, or stem cuttings.
The nature and efficacy.
Gardenia fruit taste bitter, cold nature, with affinity to the meridian of the heart, liver, lung, stomach, and Sanjiao. Gardenia fruit serves as a heat and flame cleaning, cooling blood, removing toxins, and eliminate moisture. Efficacy gardenia fruit is improving liver function and soothe emotions (sedative), malancarkan flow of bile into the intestine (kolagoga), anti-inflammatory (antiflogistik), antibiotics, fever reliever (anti-pyretic), sputum, laxative urine (diuretic), blood conditioning, bidders toxins (detoksikan), stop bleeding (hemostasis), and destroys blood clots. Potent hepatoprotective gardenia fruit extract, which protects the liver from damage caused by toxins.Roots and flowers efficacious laxative menstruation. Flowers efficacious hemostasis, tranquilizers (sedatives), and a laxative urine (diuretic).
Chemical Ingredients
Fruits contain essential oils, gardenin, gardenosid, geniposid, genipin1-D gentiobioside, gardoside (8.10 dehydrologanin), scandoside menthyl esters, glikosid, sitosterol, mannitol, nonacosane, krosetin, krosin, klorogenin, tannin, and dextrose. Gardenin is golden yellow chloroform, soluble in alcohol and chloroform. Rind contains ursolic acid. The leaves contain saponins, flavonoids, polyphenols, and essential oils.Parts used.
Parts of the plant are used as medicine is ripe fruit (zhi zi) and roots. The leaves and flowers are also used as medicine. Fruit picked after cooking, then steamed or boiled briefly before being dried for storage. The fruit can be used fresh or after drying. The leaves are picked throughout the year. Once washed, then dry in the sun to dry.indication
Gardenia fruit used to treat:
* Diseases with fever which give high fever, irritability, delirium, impaired consciousness,* Inflammation of the liver (hepatitis), jaundice (jaundice) accompanied fever, no appetite, urine slightly (oliguria), and urinary pain (dysuria),
* Inflammation of the mucous membranes of the bladder (cystitis),
* Inflammation of the breast (mastitis),
* Bleeding from hot blood like vomiting blood (hematemesis), blood urine (hematuria), dysentery, coughing up blood (hemoptysis), nosebleeds (epistaxis),
* Sleep disorders (insomnia),
* Sore throat, mouth sores, toothache,
* Dysentery, snake bites,
* Eyes swelling and pain (acute conjungtivitis), and
* High blood pressure (hypertension).
Gardenia leaves used to treat:
* Fever,* Shortness of breath,
* High blood pressure (hypertension), and
* Sprue (mouthwash).
How to Use
For drugs taken, using 30-60 g of root or 3-9 g of fruit, then boiled and drinking waterFor external use only, minced fresh gardenia fruit until smooth, then add the egg white or white wine. Next, attach the parts of the body, such as bruises, sprains, inflammation of the skin (boils, abscesses, ulcers, snake pox / shingles), burned, scalded, and toothache. Pasta gardenia finely ground herbs and mixed with flour and white wine is very effective for the treatment traima in tendons, ligaments, joints, and muscles. In Vietnam, gardenia is used to treat disorders of the eye to resolve.
Effects Farmokogis and Research.
Studies in rats and rabbits prove efficacious kolagoga gardenia fruit and choleretic.Extra ethanol gardenia fruit aktivitar spontaneous decrease in animals that indicate a sedative effect. Besides, it also has antipyretic properties.
Cooking water or ethanol extract of gardenia fruit exhibit hypotensive effects in animal experiments.
Gardenia fruit decoction is also efficacious antibacterial and in vitro inhibit the activity of a wide variety of skin fungus. Thank you for reading this article. Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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