Fructus gardenia

Common Name: Capejasmine Fruit

Specific Name: Fructus gardenia

Gardeniae fructus, the desiccative ripe fruits of this plant, were applied in china for centuries to extract natural colorants and as an important traditional herbal medicine. In Chinese Pharmacopoeia (2010), it is cold in nature and bitter in taste, with the effects of discharging fire, eliminating vexation, protecting the liver, promoting choleretics, causing diuresis, cooling blood, etc.

Y. Fan et al, Accelerated Solvent Extraction of Antioxidant Compounds from Gardeniae Fructus and Its Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitory and PC12 Cell Protective Activities, foods, 10 (11), 2021.