The efficacy and function of Gardenia

What are the effects

Benefits of Gardenia

Summer is the season of gardenias. White flowers bloom on the branches, and a faint fragrance flows in the air. There is also a voice gently singing "Gardenia Blossoms" on campus, expressing a faint sadness and beauty.

Summer is coming, and many gardenias will be put on display for sale on the streets of Nanjing. Do you know what people do with the gardenias they buy? Do they make tea or cook with them? What are the effects of gardenias?

The effects of gardenia: clearing heat and relieving restlessness. Gardenia is suitable for relieving heat and disturbing the mind. a. Exogenous febrile disease, with evil accumulated in the upper part of the body, causing restlessness and insomnia. b. Fire poison is raging, with high fever, irritability, and even delirium.

The effects of gardenia: cooling blood and detoxifying. Gardenia is often used to treat heat and toxicity in the blood. a. Blood heat and abnormal flow, vomiting blood, nosebleed, and hematuria. b. Swollen throat and red eyes, hot toxic sores and ulcers, are caused by actual heat.

The effect of gardenia: clearing away dampness and heat. Gardenia is suitable for damp-heat syndrome in the liver, gallbladder and lower abdomen. a. Damp-heat in the liver meridian causes stagnation of fire, restlessness, irritability, flank pain and bitter taste in the mouth. b. Jaundice caused by damp-heat and downward movement of damp-heat, painful and astringent stranguria caused by heat.

In addition, gardenia has the effects of calming, lowering blood pressure, inhibiting gastric acid and accelerating soft tissue healing. No wonder gardenias are so popular on the streets of Nanjing, they turn out to be treasures!

Benefits of scented tea

There is a gardenia in the courtyard, and a few petals have fallen. The loving father picked them up, cleaned them, put them in a teacup, poured boiling water on it, and the room was filled with the fragrance of gardenia! A cup of gardenia tea, that’s it!

Do you know what benefits gardenia tea has?

When making gardenia tea, adding a little honey can clear away heat and relieve cough, and it has a good therapeutic effect on colds and fevers.

Drinking gardenia tea can also calm down, stop bleeding, resist bacteria, and clear lung heat. In addition, drinking gardenia tea can promote large intestine motility, which can effectively prevent the onset of hemorrhoids and the occurrence of rectal cancer.

In the hot summer, have a cup of gardenia tea to make your life healthier!

What does it do?

Home Function

Appreciation: Gardenia has lush branches and leaves, evergreen leaves all year round, elegant fragrance, green leaves and white flowers, which are particularly beautiful and lovely. It is an excellent beautification material in the courtyard. It is suitable for placement in front of steps, poolside and roadside. It can also be used as a flower hedge, potted plant and bonsai for appreciation. It has a relatively high ornamental value.

Gardenia is definitely a very good embellishment in the home. Placing a gardenia next to the TV at home not only beautifies the interior space and absorbs harmful radiation in the room, but also emits fragrance from time to time, covering up the original bland or even unpleasant smell, exchanging the air in the space, and making the whole home full of poetry. It is a perfect plant for beautifying your home. Just give it full marks, don’t worry about Gardenia being proud.

Purify the air: Gardenia is resistant to sulfur dioxide and can absorb sulfur to purify the atmosphere. 0.5 kg of leaves can absorb 0.002 to 0.005 kg of sulfur. When planted at home, the air will be much fresher and more comfortable.

Edible value

Gardenia has very high medicinal value and it is also edible. The main ways to eat gardenia are: cold gardenia, gardenia egg drop soup, gardenia fried bamboo shoots, gardenia soup, flower tea, pickled candied fruit, fried, gardenia honey soup, gardenia fried leeks, etc.

Never underestimate the Chinese people’s ability to show off their food skills. The title of A Bite of China was not released in vain! A gardenia can also bloom on a dinner plate, beautiful and delicious!

Daily Chemicals

Gardenia contains ingredients such as benzyl acetate, linalyl acetate, and ethyl styraldehyde. The fragrance of gardenia is loved by people all over the world. Gardenia extract can be produced by the extraction method (extract yield 0.1-0.13%), which can be widely used in cosmetic flavors and food flavors; gardenia oil can be produced by steam distillation. Gardenia oil can be used to prepare a variety of floral perfumes, soaps, and cosmetic flavors: the benzyl acetate and linalyl acetate in gardenia oil can be separated by vacuum distillation and used as the main fragrance or coordinating agent in daily cosmetics, and is also often used in food, such as chewing gum flavors.

Charming flowers like gardenia, which have perfect skills, not only satisfy your pursuit of color, fragrance and taste, but also give you surprises in chemistry and chemical engineering. It is truly a beautiful encounter with the greatest effect! I envy my friends in Nanjing!