The name "honeysuckle" first appeared in Su Shen Neijing in the Song Dynasty. Honeysuckle refers to the tender seedling of honeysuckle. Compendium of materia medica: honeysuckle. Its stems and leaves, like flowers, have the same function. Honeysuckle is named after honeysuckle turns white first and then yellow. Aromatic flowers and black spherical berries, 3 ~ 4 mm in diameter (0. 12 ~ 0. 16 inch), containing several seeds.
form
Perennial semi-evergreen twining shrub. Branchlets are slender and hollow, and vines are brown to reddish brown. Oval leaves are opposite, with dense hairs and glandular hairs on the branches and leaves. Flowering in summer, bracts are leaflike, lip-shaped flowers have a faint fragrance, and there are hairs and glandular hairs outside. Stamens and styles extend out of the corolla, and flowers are born in pairs in leaf axils. The color is white at first, and gradually turns yellow, and the yellow and white set each other off, so it is called honeysuckle. Spherical berries, black when ripe.
Be distributed
Widely produced in East Asia. It is produced in most parts of China, mainly distributed in Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Henan, Hainan, Tibet and other places, and also distributed in the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Growing in the range of 50-1500m. Most of them grow in wet areas, such as the banks of streams and rivers, wet hillside shrubs and sparse forests.
Extended data:
Medicinal value
Honeysuckle has been famous for its extensive medicinal value since ancient times. Its efficacy is mainly to clear away heat and toxic materials, and it is mainly used to treat fever, bloody dysentery due to toxic heat, carbuncle and furuncle.
Modern research has proved that honeysuckle contains chlorogenic acid, luteolin and other pharmacological active components, which has a strong inhibitory effect on hemolytic streptococcus, Staphylococcus aureus and other pathogenic bacteria and upper respiratory tract infection viruses.
In addition, it can enhance immunity, resist early pregnancy, protect liver, resist tumor, diminish inflammation, relieve fever, stop bleeding (coagulation), and inhibit the absorption of cholesterol in intestine. It has a wide range of clinical uses and can be combined with other drugs to treat more than 40 diseases such as respiratory tract infection, bacillary dysentery, acute urinary system infection and hypertension.
Honeysuckle is cold and sweet, and enters the lung, heart and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, resisting inflammation, tonifying deficiency and treating wind, and is mainly used for treating fullness, fever, heat toxic carbuncle, tumor and other diseases.
It has certain curative effect on dizziness, thirst, sweating and boredom, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, measles, pneumonia, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, acute mastitis, septicemia, appendicitis, skin infection, carbuncle and furuncle, erysipelas, mumps, suppurative tonsillitis and other diseases.
Boiled honeysuckle vine has a certain therapeutic effect on children's eczema and other skin itching, and has an inhibitory effect on a variety of pathogenic bacteria and viruses in livestock and poultry. If a certain dose of honeysuckle vine leaf powder or boiled water can be added in the process of animal feeding, it will have a good effect on preventing and treating diseases such as fever, wind-heat cold, pharyngolaryngitis, pneumonia, dysentery, ulcer swelling, erysipelas, cellulitis and so on.
Decocting Fructus Forsythiae and Radix Isatidis with Flos Lonicerae decoction can treat parotitis; Honeysuckle tea can dispel summer heat and improve eyesight; Forsythia honeysuckle decoction can treat exogenous fever and cough. At the same time, Flos Lonicerae, Flos Chrysanthemi, Radix Platycodi and Radix Glycyrrhizae are boiled in water for 10 min, and cooled, which can be used as a beverage for treating pharyngolaryngitis and tonsillitis.
The honeysuckle preparations produced include Yinqiao Jiedu tablets, Yinhuang tablets and Yinhuang injection. "Honeysuckle dew" is an aromatic volatile oil and water-soluble slip extracted by distillation of honeysuckle. It is a good product for clearing away fire and detoxifying, and can treat fetal poison, furuncle and children's fever and thirst. It can be used instead of tea in summer to treat warm acne and bloody dysentery.
Stems and vines are called "honeysuckle vines" and are also used in medicine. The effective components of Flos Lonicerae are chlorogenic acid and isochlorogenic acid. This is a secondary substance produced in the process of plant metabolism, and its content depends not only on plant species, but also on eco-geographical conditions such as climate, soil and phenology to a great extent.
Honeysuckle tea has a unique weight-loss function, and can also inhibit and kill pathogenic bacteria in the throat, which has anti-infection effect on the elderly and children. Taking honeysuckle regularly for soaking or decocting is beneficial to the treatment and rehabilitation of wind-fire and red eyes, sore throat, obesity, liver-heat syndrome and liver-heat hypertension.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-honeysuckle