Zhi Zi 100 grams

Zhi Zi Granules, 100g Bottle

Brand: TCM Zone

English name: Gardenia Fruit, Cape Jasmine Fruit

Chinese name: Zhi Zi

Unit Size: 100g Bottle

Potency: 5:1 extract granules

Taste: Bitter - Bensky

Properties: Cold - Bensky

Contraindications: Contraindicated in those with cold from deficiency of the Spleen and Stomach with reduced appetite and loose stools. - Bensky

Chinese Symptomology: Heat patterns with fever, irrability, restlessness, stifling sensation in the chest, insomnia, delirious speech; painful urinary dribbling due to damp-heat in the lower burner; jaundice; sores in the mouth or facial region, nosebleed, bloody vomit, blood in the stool or urine - Bensky

Actions: Resolves constrained heat, directs damp-heat downward and out through the urine, cools the blood, breaks up toxic accumulation - Bensky

Pattern: Heat, damp-heat, constrained Liver and Gallbladder - Bensky

Channels Entered: Heart, Lung, Stomach, Liver, Triple Burner - Bensky

Ingredients

Zhi Zi - Gardeniae Fructus

Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

• Drains heat and eliminates irritability: for heat patterns with fever, irritability, restlessness, stifling sensation in the chest, insomnia, or delirious speech.
• Clears heat and resolves dampness: for painful urinary dribbling due to damp-heat in the lower burner; damp-heat and constrained Liver and Gallbladder (middle burner) with jaundice; and damp-heat in the Gallbladder and Triple Burner channels of the face, affecting the nose and eyes, or causing sores in the mouth or facial region.
• Cools the blood and resolves toxicity: for heat in the blood with such symptoms as nosebleed, or blood in the vomit, stool, or urine. For this purpose the herb is partially charred.
• Reduces swelling and moves blood stasis due to trauma: for this purpose, apply topically as a powder mixed with egg white or vinegar.

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