Honeysuckle. It's the bud of honeysuckle. Caprifoliaceae. Its taste is sweet and cold. Produced in most areas of China, Shandong has the largest output, but Henan has the best quality. This is a real country of origin.
It can be used for treating fever, fever, bloody dysentery due to toxic heat, carbuncle swelling, scrofula, hemorrhoid and leakage. The smell is fragrant and the taste is light and bitter. Honeysuckle is named after honeysuckle turns white first and then yellow.
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The national standard of honeysuckle commodity is divided into four grades:
First-class products: the goods are dry, the flower buds are in a holding shape, the upper part is thick and the lower part is thin, slightly curved, the surface is blue and white, and the corolla is rough and hard, with a sense of topping; The smell is fragrant and the taste is sweet, sour and bitter. Flowers, broken buds and yellow stripes shall not exceed 5%. No black stripes, blackheads, branches and leaves, impurities, insects and mildew;
Second-class: basically the same as first-class, with only 5% flowering. Broken bud yellow stripe does not exceed10%;
Third-class: the goods are dry, the buds are rod-shaped, thick on the top and thin on the bottom, slightly curved, the surface is green or yellow-white, the corolla is thick and hard, and it has a top feeling when held. The smell is fragrant and the taste is sweet, sour and bitter. Flowers and blackheads shall not exceed 30%. No branches and leaves, impurities, moth-eaten, mildew;
The fourth category: dry goods. Buds or open flowers, regardless of color. No more than 3% branches and leaves, no impurities, no moth and mildew. Only by knowing how to identify honeysuckle can we ensure that we can buy good honeysuckle and treat diseases better.
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