Today is the big day for the release of He Laoshi's debut "Gardenia Blossoms"! When it comes to gardenias, what do you think of first? Presumably, many people, like Bian Xiao, will think of He Laoshi's song "Gardenia Blossoms". In fact, as early as the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu, a famous poet in China, had a soft spot for gardenia. So what makes these two generations fall in love? Today's article may answer your doubts.

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Gardenia is more precious than many other trees.

This is a beneficial body color, which is in harmony with Tao Qi.

See the rain and dew in the green by the red wind and frost.

If you are moved mercilessly, it will be reflected in Jiang Bo.

Gardenia in Du Fu's works has at least two functions: medicine and dyeing. Gardenia was an important dye in ancient times. Its fruit can be squeezed into yellow juice, which can be used not only to dye fabrics, but also to dye various household utensils, so the poet calls it "body color is useful". However, compared with dyeing, the medicinal value of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis is more commendable.

As Du Fu said, "The red leaves are windy and frosty, and the green leaves are rainy and dew." Gardenia is an evergreen shrub that does not change color in autumn wind, frost and snow. It has the character of "not afraid of cold" like pine and cypress. It can survive the severe winter with Ye Mao, and it also suffers from the severe winter. It is known that it is cold in nature, single in taste and only bitter in taste. Bitter taste can stop diarrhea, and cold can clear heat, so the core efficacy of Gardenia is related to clearing heat. How's the heat? From the meridian tropism of Gardenia, we can know: heart, liver, lung, stomach and triple energizer, which shows that Gardenia is almost good at clearing five internal organs and six internal organs.

1. Qingfei fever

It can be used for cough and asthma due to lung heat and diseases related to lung heat, such as sore throat and fever.

Clear your mind and ease your troubles.

Can be used for vexation, insomnia, bitter taste, etc. Caused by excessive heart fire.

Clearing stomach fire

Can be used for treating halitosis and gingival swelling and pain caused by stomach fire.

4. Clearing liver and purging fire

Can be used for red eyes, swelling and pain, irritability, etc. Caused by liver fire.

In addition, the heat-clearing performance of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis is various, and it can remove all kinds of heat pathogens, mainly in the following three aspects:

1. Clearing away heat and toxic materials

Can be used for treating toxic heat diseases, including high fever, dysphoria and skin abscess caused by toxic heat.

removing pathogenic heat from blood

It can be used for treating hyperpyrexia and hemorrhage (such as hematuria and nosebleeds) caused by excess heat and toxic heat entering the blood.

3. Clearing away dampness and heat

This is a very distinctive and valuable use of Gardenia, mainly used for jaundice, dysuria, dripping pain and so on. An important cause of jaundice is that damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder accumulates in the liver and gallbladder, so it is necessary to eliminate damp-heat in treatment and excrete it. Gardenia can not only directly clear away heat and promote diuresis, but also eliminate damp-heat in urine.

From this, we can sum up two characteristics of gardenia's heat-clearing function: extensive functions; Eliminate heat evil by urinating.

Gardenia has another use in treating trauma. Gardenia has its own names among the people: medicine for hanging injuries and medicine for hanging tendons, which indicates the application of Gardenia in traumatic injuries. The raw gardenia is ground into powder, mixed with vinegar and egg white, and applied to the affected area, which has a good detumescence and analgesic effect.

Gardenia is not only beautiful and fragrant, but also "superb in skill" and has many incomparable effects. Therefore, Du Fu praised "there is not much sincerity in the world", but it was so low-key that it quietly bloomed in Shan Ye and did not compete with others. Such a quiet personality evokes the poet's infinite emotions. It is the helplessness and self-injury of the poet's "useful talent, loneliness is incompatible with the times, content with the old times and content with the rivers and lakes".