What are the functions and characteristics of honeysuckle?

Honeysuckle alias: honeysuckle, honeysuckle, double flower, second flower, second treasure flower and egret flower. Sweet and cold in nature. Enter lung, heart and stomach meridians. Function: clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling wind and heat. Used for carbuncle, furuncle, laryngitis, erysipelas, bloody dysentery, wind-heat cold, fever and fever. Usage and dosage: 6 ~ 15g. Storage method: stored in a cool and dry place, moisture-proof and moth-proof. Chinese medicine believes that honeysuckle is cold in nature, sweet in taste, flat in qi, and has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and can be used to treat toxic heat, swelling and carbuncle. Because it has the function of dispelling pathogenic factors, it can also treat exogenous wind-heat and febrile diseases. For example, Yinqiao Jiedu tablets (pills) for the treatment of wind-heat colds take honeysuckle as the main medicine. Yinhuang tablets made from Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi can treat acute upper respiratory tract infection, acute pharyngitis and acute tonsillitis. Flos Lonicerae can be distilled with water to obtain "Flos Lonicerae Dew", which has the function of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, and can be used to treat children's heat furuncle, miliaria and summer heat. Since ancient times, there has been such a custom among Chinese people. The hot summer is coming. Drinking honeysuckle tea for children several times can prevent the occurrence of hot furuncle in summer. In hot summer, drinking honeysuckle tea can prevent heatstroke, enteritis, dysentery and other diseases. In hot summer, people are prone to heatstroke. Herbal tea made of honeysuckle can prevent heatstroke if you drink it regularly. From late summer to Mid-Autumn Festival, bacillary dysentery and enteritis are frequent. Honeysuckle can be used as the main medicine, and Coptidis Rhizoma and Scutellariae Radix can be decocted into decoction for oral administration, which has a good preventive and therapeutic effect. Honeysuckle is in bud, yellow and white in color, and it is better to pick it when it is fat. If you pinch a pinch of high-quality honeysuckle, put it in a glass and pour boiling water, after a while, you will see the flower buds hanging vertically in the water, not floating or sinking, and graceful. After water soaked the bud, it sank to the bottom of the cup. According to pharmaceutical chemical analysis, honeysuckle contains luteolin, inositol, saponin, tannin and so on. Pharmacological experiments show that honeysuckle has a wide antibacterial spectrum, and has inhibitory effects on Shigella dysenteriae, typhoid Bacillus, Escherichia coli, Bordetella pertussis, diphtheria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, mycobacterium tuberculosis, staphylococcus, streptococcus and pneumococcus. And anti-influenza virus. Clinically, it is also used to treat infections caused by the above pathogenic microorganisms. Recent studies have pointed out that honeysuckle can promote lymphocyte transformation, and lymphocyte transformation rate can reflect cellular immune function, that is, improve organism immunity. Honeysuckle can also enhance the phagocytosis of white blood cells and improve immune function from another angle. Honeysuckle can also promote the release of adrenocortical hormone, and has obvious inhibitory effect on acute inflammation. Animal experiments by Nanjing Institute of Wild Plants have proved that honeysuckle can significantly improve the tolerance of animals to high temperature environment. When 50% of the animals in the control group died of high temperature, only 6% of the animals fed with honeysuckle tea died in the same environment. It is proved that honeysuckle has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Yinju drink made of honeysuckle and chrysanthemum was used as tea to treat 200 cases of hypertension and arteriosclerosis, and the effect was good. Among them, 46 cases were systematically observed, 35 cases had their blood pressure reduced to normal, and the rest also decreased to varying degrees, which could improve symptoms such as dizziness, headache and insomnia. The curative effect of honeysuckle injection on acute tonsillitis is not inferior to that of antibiotics, and no toxic or side effects are found during the treatment.