Lonicera japonica. It is also called Lonicera japonica, Lonicera japonica, Lonicera japonica, Lonicera japonica, Lonicera japonica, Hair Honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica, Lonicera japonica, Lonicera japonica.

"Honeysuckle" a first contained in the Song Dynasty "Su Shen Nei Han Liang Fang", honeysuckle refers to the Lonicera japonica seedlings, "Compendium of Materia Medica": Lonicera japonica, stems and leaves of the same flowers, the same function. Because the first bloom of Lonicera is white, and then turned yellow, so the name honeysuckle. The flowers are fragrant, and the fruit is a black, spherical berry that is 3 to 4 millimeters (0.12 to 0.16 inches) in diameter and contains several seeds.

Morphology

Perennial semi-evergreen twining shrub. The branchlets are slender, hollow, and the vine is brown to russet. Leaves opposite ovate, branches and leaves are densely pilose and glandular hairy. Summer flowering, bracts leaf-shaped, lip-shaped flowers have a light fragrance, outside the pilose and glandular hairs, stamens and styles are protruding from the corolla, flowers in pairs born in the axils of the leaves, the color of the flowers at first white, gradually changing to yellow, yellow and white, so it is called honeysuckle. Spherical berries, black when ripe.

Distribution

Widespread in East Asia. Most parts of China are produced, mainly in Heilongjiang, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Henan, Hainan, Tibet and other places, the Korean Peninsula, Japan also has a distribution. It grows in areas of 50-1500 meters. More wild in the more humid zone, such as the banks of rivers and streams, moist mountain slopes, scrub, sparse forests.

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Medicinal Value

Honeysuckle has been famous for its wide range of medicinal values since ancient times. Its efficacy is mainly to clear away heat and detoxify the toxin, and it is mainly used for treating fever of warm diseases, feverish blood dysentery, and carbuncle and furuncle.

Modern research has proved that honeysuckle contains chlorogenic acid, lignocaine glycosides and other pharmacologically active ingredients, which have strong inhibitory power against hemolytic streptococcus, staphylococcus aureus and other pathogenic bacteria and viruses that cause upper respiratory tract infections, etc.;

Additionally, it can also enhance the immune system, anti-early pregnancy, hepatoprotection, anti-tumor, anti-inflammation, anti-pyretic, antiemetic, hemostatic (blood coagulation), and inhibit the absorption of cholesterol by intestinal tracts, etc., its It has a wide range of clinical uses, and can be used with other drugs for the treatment of respiratory tract infections, bacillary dysentery, acute urinary tract infections, hypertension, and more than 40 kinds of diseases.

Honeysuckle is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and enters the lung, heart and stomach meridians, with heat and detoxification, anti-inflammatory, tonifying the effects of deficiency and healing the wind, and is mainly used for treating bloating and lowering the disease, fever, fever, carbuncle ulcers and tumors, etc. It is also used in the treatment of diarrhea, diarrhea and other diseases, such as diarrhea.

It is effective in treating dizziness and lightheadedness, dry mouth and thirst, excessive sweating and boredom, enteritis, dysentery, measles, pneumonia, encephalitis, meningitis, acute mastitis, sepsis, appendicitis, skin infections, carbuncle and furuncle, salpingitis, mumps, suppurative tonsillitis and other diseases.

The honeysuckle vine boiled water on children's eczema and other skin itching has a certain therapeutic effect on the livestock and poultry of a variety of diseases of germs, viruses have an inhibitory effect, in the process of animal husbandry, if you can add a certain dose of honeysuckle vine leaves (Lonicera japonica) powder or boiled water, for the prevention and treatment of animal fever, colds and influenza, inflammation of the pharynx, pneumonia, dysentery, swollen ulcers, dengtongue poisoning, cellulitis, etc. have a fairly good effect. quite good effect.

With forsythia, Panax quinquefolium decoction of honeysuckle soup can treat mumps; honeysuckle tea can dispel heat and brighten the eyes; forsythia and honeysuckle cold soup can treat external fever and cough. At the same time, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, platycodon and licorice with water boiled for 10 minutes, Hou cool, as a drink to drink, can treat laryngitis and tonsillitis.

The production of honeysuckle preparations are "silver warsia detoxification tablets", "silver yellow tablets", "silver yellow injection" and so on. "Honeysuckle dew" is honeysuckle distillation method to extract the aromatic volatile oil and water-soluble slipped out of the product, for the fire detoxification of the good product, can cure pediatric fetus poison, sores, fever and thirst, etc.; summer season to use as a substitute for tea, can be a cure for warm chagasia and pox, dysentery and so on.

The stem of the vine is called "Lonicera" and is also used for medicinal purposes. Honeysuckle's active ingredient is chlorogenic acid and isochlorogenic acid. This is a secondary substance produced in the process of plant metabolism, and its content not only depends on the species of plants, but also may be largely affected by the climate, soil and other ecological and geographic conditions, as well as the climatic period.

Honeysuckle tea has a unique weight loss function, but also can inhibit and kill pathogenic bacteria in the throat, the elderly and children have anti-infection effect. Regular consumption of honeysuckle infusion or decoction is beneficial to the treatment and recovery of wind-fire and eye-bleed, sore throat, obesity, liver-heat and liver-heat hypertension.

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