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Alternate English names: Cape jasmine root

Alternate Chinese names: 栀子花根 zhī zǐ huā gēn

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in unofficial sources: Gardenia jasminoides Ellis*

Use: Medicinal

Properties: Bitter*; cold*.

Actions and indications: Clears heat, cools the blood, and resolves toxin. Treats common cold and high fever; icteric hepatitis; vomiting of blood (blood ejection); nosebleed; bacillary dysentery; strangury; nephritic edema; toxin swelling swelling of welling-abscesses (yōng) and sores.

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