Compared with the gardenia, the plant species genus, sex flavor and attribution, efficacy and main treatment are different.
1. Plant species genus: Hovenia citriodora is the dry immature fruit of rue family plant lime and its varieties, gardenia is the dry mature fruit of gardenia family plant.
2. Sexual flavor attributes to the meridian: Citrus aurantium sex slightly cold, taste bitter pungent and sour, attributes to the spleen meridian, stomach meridian. Gardenia is cold in nature, bitter in flavor, attributed to heart meridian, lung meridian, San Jiao meridian.
3. Efficacy and main treatment: Hovenia citriodora has the efficacy of regulating qi and relaxing the middle (regulating the qi of the spleen and stomach), promoting qi and eliminating flatulence.
It is mainly used for the treatment of stagnation of qi in the chest and ribs, food stagnation (the accumulation of food in the stomach due to indigestion), distension and pain, prolapse of organs, and internal stagnation of phlegm and drink (the pathological products formed by the metabolism of water and liquid disorders), etc. It is also used for the treatment of the pain in the chest and ribs.
Gardenia has the efficacy of diarrhea of fire to remove vexation, cooling blood and detoxification, clearing away heat and inducing dampness, subduing swellings and relieving pain (for external use).
It is mainly used for treating heat disease upset, gonorrhea (urine frequency increase, gonorrhea astringent pain) astringent pain, damp-heat jaundice, blood-heat epistaxis (due to blood-heat caused by vomiting blood, nosebleed), fire-poisonous sores and ulcers, eye redness, swelling and pain, and it can be used externally to treat the pain of sprain and contusion.
4. Adverse reaction and contraindication: Hovenia sinensis adverse reaction is not clear, pregnant women use with caution. Gardenia adverse reaction is not clear, contraindication is not clear.
Suggests the body is unwell in time to go to the regular hospital, follow the doctor’s instruction symptomatic medication treatment.