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梔子 Zhizi
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Chinese Name |
梔子 |
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Chinese Pinyin |
Zhizi |
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English Name |
Common Gardenia Fruit |
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Latin Pharmaceutical Name |
Gardeniae Fructus |
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Category |
Fruits and seeds |
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Origin |
The dried mature fruit of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis. (Rubiaceae) |
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Production Regions |
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian. |
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Macroscopic Features |
Inverse oval, elliptical or long elliptical shape, 1.4~3.5cm long, 0.8~1.8cm diameter. Externally reddish-brown or reddish-yellow, slightly lustrous, with 6-8 wing-like longitudinal ridges, with one longitudinal vein between every 2 ridges, apex has dark yellowish-green remnants of persistent calyx, with 6-8 long lobes, lobes are 1~2.5cm long, 2~3mm wide, often crushed, fruit base shrunken and stem-like, end has round stem scar. Fruit skin is thin and brittle, inner surface is fresh yellow or reddish-yellow. Lustrous, with 2~3 bulging pseudoseptums. Fractured surface is fresh yellow, numerous seeds, flat oval or flat rectangular shape, clustered into spherical lumps, brownish-red, externally has thin and dense indented small spots; endosperm is horn-like; embryo is long, with 2 heart-like cotyledons. faint odor, slightly sour and bitter taste. |
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Quality Requirements |
Superior medicinal material has thin skin, full, reddish-yellow color. |
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Properties |
Bitter, cold. |
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Functions |
Drains fire, eliminates vexation, clears heat, promotes urination, cools blood, resolves toxin. Apply to deficient restlessness due to pyreticosis, conjunctival congestion due to liver fire, headache, jaundice due to damp-heat, strangury, hematodiarrhoea, hematuria, mouth and tongue sore, swelling pain of sore and ulcer, swelling pains caused by sprains. |
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Processed Form |
Fried zhi zi: Mashed zhizi fried with slow fire until turn into golden-yellow, take out and cool. Moderate the nature of unprocessed medicinal material.
Burnt zhi zi: mashed zhizi fried with fast fire until turn into burnt color, take out and cool. Change the physical feature of hardness of zhi zhi, easily to boil.
Zhi zi charcoal: mashed zhizi fried with fast fire until turn into black-brown, but save its nature, take out and cool. Focus on the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, apply to hematemesis due to blood heat, epistaxis and hematuria, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis. |
| Link |
 Medicinal Plant Images Database
Phytochemical Image Database
Chinese Medicinal Formula Images Database
Chinese Medicine Specimen Database
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Permanent URL：https://sys01.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/cmed/mmid/detail.php?pid=B00224 |
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