The Benefits of Drinking Gardenia Flower Tea
Jan 09, 2025
Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Zhang Xiuhong
Introduction
Gardenia flowers are effective at clearing heat and fire from the triple energizer (San Jiao), and can efficiently remove heat toxins from the body. Drinking water infused with gardenia flowers helps clear internal heat and relieve symptoms of excessive body heat, assisting the body in restoring yin-yang balance. Gardenia flowers also have the effect of cooling the blood and stopping bleeding, and can be used to treat various conditions involving heat in the blood and bleeding. Drinking gardenia-infused water can, to some extent, alleviate bleeding symptoms and exert a blood-cooling and hemostatic effect.
Gardenia flowers are both a food and a medicinal herb, and their infused water generally has effects of clearing heat and purging fire, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing liver and improving vision, promoting diuresis and resolving jaundice, and resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
1. Clearing Heat and Purging Fire
Gardenia flowers are particularly effective at clearing fire from the triple energizer and can efficiently eliminate heat toxins in the body. Drinking gardenia flower-infused water can help clear internal heat, alleviate symptoms of excessive internal heat, and assist the body in restoring yin-yang balance.
2. Cooling Blood and Stopping Bleeding
Gardenia flowers have the effect of cooling the blood and stopping bleeding, and can be used to treat various bleeding disorders caused by blood heat. Drinking gardenia flower-infused water can, to some extent, relieve bleeding symptoms, exert a blood-cooling and hemostatic effect, and help maintain the normal function of the blood system.
3. Clearing Liver and Improving Vision
Gardenia flowers act on the liver meridian and can clear liver fire. Drinking gardenia flower-infused water helps relieve excessive liver heat, thereby achieving the effect of clearing the liver and improving vision. It can help alleviate symptoms such as redness, dryness, and blurred vision in the eyes and protect eye health.
4. Promoting Diuresis and Resolving Jaundice
Gardenia flowers help promote diuresis and resolve jaundice by facilitating the elimination of dampness from the body and are particularly effective in treating jaundice caused by damp-heat. They clear damp-heat from the liver and gallbladder, allowing the pathogenic damp-heat to be excreted through urine and thus alleviating jaundice symptoms. Drinking gardenia flower-infused water can, to some extent, help restore liver and gallbladder function and promote physical recovery.
5. Resolving Phlegm and Relieving Cough
Gardenia flowers contain components that have expectorant and antitussive effects, which can thin mucus and promote its expulsion. For symptoms such as cough due to lung heat and unsatisfactory phlegm expectoration, drinking gardenia flower-infused water can help resolve phlegm and relieve cough, alleviating respiratory discomfort and improving respiratory function.
It is recommended to drink an appropriate amount of gardenia flower-infused water according to your own physical condition, without excessive consumption.
