Gardenia has the effect of inducing dampness and clearing heat, and can be used for heat illness and boredom, etc. Dry ginger has the effect of returning Yang to the veins, and can be used for vomiting and diarrhea.
1.gardenia medicine flavor bitter, sex cold, belongs to lung, heart, San Jiao meridian. Have remove annoyance diarrhea fire, diuresis dampness clear heat, detoxification cool blood efficacy, external use can reduce swelling and relieve pain. It can be used in treating jaundice due to dampness-heat, fever, epistaxis (vomiting of blood and nosebleed due to blood-heat), gonorrhea (increased frequency of urination, dribbling and astringent pain), heat-poisoned sores, redness and swelling of the eyes, and sprains and bruises.
This drug should be used with caution for people with spleen deficiency and loose stools (thin and unformed stools), and the adverse effects are not clear.
2. Dried ginger is pungent in flavor, hot in nature and belongs to spleen, heart, stomach, lung and kidney meridians. It has the effects of dispersing cold, warming the middle, warming the lungs and resolving fluid (promoting the flow of stagnant fluid by warming the lungs), and restoring yang and clearing the veins. It can be used in treating coldness in the spleen and stomach, diarrhea and vomiting, cold pain in the epigastrium (feeling cold pain in the stomach and abdomen), cold drinking and coughing, and cold limbs and weak pulse.
This medicine is contraindicated in cases of yin deficiency and internal heat, blood heat, and adverse reactions are not clear.
Proprietary Chinese medicines need to be used under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner’s diagnosis, and should not be used privately, so as not to cause damage to the organism.