The main functions of honeysuckle are:

1. has the effect of cooling blood and stopping dysentery. Has the effects of detoxicating, stopping dysentery, cooling blood and relieving sore throat.

2. dispel heat and evil spirits. Honeysuckle has the function of clearing away heat and eliminating pathogenic factors, and has certain curative effect on exogenous wind-heat or febrile diseases, such as body heat, headache, irritability, less sleep, dizziness, red tongue, dry throat and dry mouth.

3. The biological activity of chlorogenic acid contained in honeysuckle can promote human metabolism, regulate human function and improve immunity;

Anti-inflammatory and detoxicating effects. It has a strong effect on carbuncle, furuncle, intestinal carbuncle and lung carbuncle, and has the functions of eliminating carbuncle, detumescence, clearing heat and detoxicating.

4. Honeysuckle can lower blood pressure, lower serum cholesterol, increase coronary blood flow, and prevent coronary heart disease and heartache; Inhibit the formation of cerebral thrombosis; Improve the tolerance of human body to hypoxia free radicals, enhance memory and delay aging; Improve microcirculation, remove lipid peroxide deposition, promote metabolism, moisturize skin and remove spots;

5. Sterilization. Honeysuckle has antibacterial and bactericidal effects on pneumococcus, meningococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, mycobacterium tuberculosis, Shigella and Streptococcus mutans, and has inhibitory effects on influenza virus, orphan virus, herpes virus and leptospira.

Extended data

Honeysuckle is cold and should not be drunk for a long time. It is only suitable for temporary drinking in hot summer to prevent dysentery. Deficiency-cold constitution and menstrual period can not be drunk, and people with weak spleen and stomach should not be used frequently.

Honeysuckle is cold in nature, which will affect the transportation of spleen and stomach, so it is more suitable for summer use.

When purchasing honeysuckle, we can identify the quality from its appearance, color, smell and taste. Authentic honeysuckle is 2-3 cm long, with yellow-white or green-white surface, fragrant, light and slightly bitter.

To make honeysuckle tea, it is advisable to use a transparent glass teacup. When brewing, put the cup in a tea tray and put two or three grams of honeysuckle tea into the cup. Brew with boiling water slightly cooled to about 90℃, and add a cup cover to prevent the fragrance from losing;

After brewing for 3 minutes, open the lid and smell the rising aroma in the soup. When the tea soup is slightly cool and palatable, take a sip.

Stay in the mouth for a while. With the action of inhaling through the mouth and exhaling through the nose, the instant tea soup flows back and forth once or twice on the tongue surface, fully contacts with the taste buds, tastes the tea taste and the aroma in the soup, and then swallows it.

Tea is easy to cause discoloration and qualitative change in the sun. Avoid sunlight, use clean white cotton paper and kraft paper to store tea separately, and take as much as you need.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-honeysuckle tea