What nutrition does gardenia have?

Gardenia is luxuriant in branches and leaves, evergreen in all seasons, elegant in fragrance, especially beautiful and lovely in green leaves and white flowers. It is an excellent landscaping material in the courtyard. Suitable for terrace, Chi Pan and roadside. It can also be used as ornamental flowers for flower beds, potted plants and bonsai, and can also be used for flower arrangement and decoration. The peel can be used as yellow dyed wood, which is hard and meticulous and is a good carving material.

Medicinal value

The roots, leaves and fruits of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis can be used as medicine, and have the effects of purging fire, relieving restlessness, diminishing inflammation, clearing away heat, inducing diuresis, cooling blood and detoxifying. In addition, gardenia is resistant to sulfur dioxide and can absorb sulfur to purify the atmosphere. 0.5 kg of leaves can absorb 0.0020.005 kg of sulfur.

The flowers, fruits, leaves and roots of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis can be used as medicine to make tea or decoction. Gardenia contains geniposide, dehydrogeniposide, Paeoniflorin methyl ester and a small amount of geniposide, which has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood and detoxifying, yellowing, stranguria, redness and swelling, fire sore and lowering blood pressure. Among them, gardenia fruit can be used as medicine to treat fever, hyperpyrexia, dysphoria, insomnia, toothache, mouth sores, nasal adjustment, hematemesis, conjunctivitis, sore swelling, toxic jaundice, infectious hepatitis, bean diseases, and external use to treat traumatic bleeding and sprain. Root medicine is mainly used to treat infectious hepatitis, traumatic injury and toothache caused by wind and fire. "Compendium of Materia Medica" calls it "the use of paste color' thousand-winged'." The southern Yunnan materia medica says that it "clears lung fire, stops lung heat, stops cough, stops epistaxis, stops bleeding and eliminates phlegm."

Daily chemical industry

Suitable for terrace, Chi Pan and roadside. It can also be used as fences and potted plants for ornamental flowers, and can also be used for flower arrangement and decoration. Gardenia has beautiful flowers, leaves and fruits. Flowers are fragrant and can be used to smoke tea and extract spices. Fruit can be used to make yellow dyes. Roots, leaves and fruits can be used as medicine. Gardenia wood is hard and suitable for carving.

Gardenia contains benzyl acetate, linalyl acetate, ethyl ester and storax. Therefore, gardenia fragrance is deeply loved by the world. Gardenia jasminoides Ellis can be used to extract and produce gardenia jasminoides Ellis extract. The yield of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis extract is 0. 1-0. 13%, which can be widely used in cosmetics and food spices. Gardenia oil can be produced by steam distillation. The oil yield is about 0.02%. Gardenia oil can be used to prepare various floral perfumes, soaps and cosmetic essences. In addition, benzyl acetate and linalyl acetate of gardenia oil can be separated by vacuum fractionation, which can be used as the main perfume or complexing agent commonly used in daily cosmetics, and can also be used as the essence of food such as chewing gum. .