The contraindications of Gardenia jasminoides in water are the same as those of Gardenia jasminoides. Contraindications are that the drug is bitter and cold and injures the stomach, it is not recommended for those with deficiency of yin and blood, spleen deficiency and loose stools (thin and unshaped feces), and is prohibited for those who are allergic to it. The effective dosage of gardenia in water is limited and generally cannot achieve good therapeutic effect. If the body has the discomfort, suggests under the doctor’s guidance to carry on the formal treatment.
Gardenia is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, taste bitter, cold, to the heart, lung, San Jiao meridian. It can have the effect of clearing away heat and fire (clearing away heat and fire in the body), removing annoyance and diuresis, detoxifying and cooling the blood. It is often used in the treatment of heat-related diseases, hemorrhagic drenching (the appearance of blood in urine with pain), astringent pain, jaundice due to dampness-heat, epistaxis due to blood-heat, sores and ulcers due to fire-poisoning, etc. It is cold in nature and bitter in taste.
It is cold in nature and bitter in taste, and should not be used by those with loose stools in spleen deficiency or deficiency of Yin and Blood, as it may aggravate symptoms. It is not recommended to be used together with cypress and scutellaria baicalensis when made into injection; it is not recommended to be used together with sedative, anesthetic, beta-blocker, atropine, propranolol and so on; allergic people are forbidden to use it.
The correct usage of gardenia is decoction or powdered dressing, soak water to drink can’t achieve its therapeutic effect, if there is a need for medication, should be used under the guidance of a physician.