Gardenia fruit Features: AliasDan Wood ( "The Classic"), fresh branch ( "Shanglin Fu"),
goblet son ( "Han"Note),( "Materia Medica by variorum"), the more
peach ( "Do not recorded "), shanzhiside Sub ( "property theory"), bicolor ( "Tang Materia Medica"), a small
goblet son ( "the original herbal medicine"), yellow sub ( "Guangxi
Chinese Chi"), son of Huang Ti ( "Fujian Chinese Materia Medica"),
Hill Gardenia ( "Jiangsu medicine Chi"). 【Source】 Rubiaceae plants for the fruits of shanzhiside. Shanzhiside plant morphology ( "property theory"), also known as:
Lan ( "Xie Leisure Set"). Evergreen shrub, 0.5 to 2 meters high, young branches have fine
hairs. Or three leaves of Health impeller of Health, coriaceous, long
roundlanceolate or lanceolate, 7 to 14 centimeters long, 2 ~ 5 cm
wide, tip gradually become sharp tip or a short, wide margin, the
two Surface smooth, wedge-shaped base; have brachypus; stipule
membranaceous, base of the synthesis of a sheath. Flower was born in a single-ended or axil sticks, large-shaped,
white, very Xiang; pedicel very short, often Prism; inverted calyx
tube ovoid or oval, the upper part of enlargement, 5 ~ 6 crack tip,
split-line Shaped or linear lanceolate; Corolla Rotary Volume, goblet-shaped,
narrow corolla tube cylindrical, about 3 mm, lobes 5 or more, but a
long circular; stamens 6, the corolla throat of Health , Filament very short or lacking, anthers linear; ovary 1 lower
room, style thick, rod-like stigma. Fruit was oval or long oval-shaped, winged spindle-shaped
longitudinal 5 ~ 8, 2.5 to 4.5 centimeters long, yellow, there are
places the top keeping fruit calyx. 5 ~ July flowering. Fruit 8 to November period. Chang was born in the warmth of low hills and slopes of the
woodland or, ditch beside the street. Distribution of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Guangdong,
Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hubei, Fujian and Taiwan. The root of the plant (root gardenia), leaves (Gardenia leaves),
flower (gardenia) also for the medicinal, the article specifically
detailed. 【Collection】 October between the fruits yellow when ripe, although
skin picking, andremove impurities, dried or drying. Add boiling water can be the fruit (a little alum) in the hot, or
within Add steamed steamer for half an hour, removed, dried in the
sun. Dried fruit ingredientslong oval or oval-shaped, 1 to 4.5
centimeters long, 0.6 to 2 centimeters thick. The surface of dark red or red and yellow, with 5 to 8 vertical
edge. The top remaining sepal, the other side of a little tip, there
aremarks. Thin and crispy skin, the inner surface of red and yellow, shiny,
with 2 ~ 3 uplift false divide, with the majority of seeds, bonded
into a corporation. Seed flat round, dark red or red and yellow, with small dense
verrucose. #p##e# Immersion in water, allows water dyed bright yellow. Micro gas, slightly acidic tasteless. To a small, complete, full-jen, both inside and outside the red
color better. A big, brown skin, benevolent than the flat, yellow color are poor
quality. The main production in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian; In
addition, Sichuan, Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Anhui,
Guangdong, Guangxi, Henan and other places also the middle class. 【Chemical Composition】 Su-containing flavonoids Gardenia, pectin,
tannin, crocin, saffron acid, D-mannitol, Eve n-, -sitosterol. A ring with a variety of other smelly ants glycoside aldehyde
structure: Geniposide to Park Su-hydroxybutyrate Geniposide -1 -
glucopyranoside, Park Su-gurney-1--D-glucoside Gentiana II and a
small amount of shanzhiside Glycosides.
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