Honeysuckle: Benefits, Uses and Cultivation Techniques Explained
Honeysuckle can be found everywhere across the country, and it is deeply loved by people for its floral fragrance. Of course, honeysuckle tea and honeysuckle distillate also frequently appear in people's daily lives, but when it comes to the benefits and uses of honeysuckle as well as honeysuckle cultivation techniques, few people know about them, I believe. Below, the editor will give everyone a detailed introduction to the benefits and uses of honeysuckle and honeysuckle cultivation techniques.
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[Honeysuckle] Honeysuckle benefits and uses, honeysuckle cultivation techniques
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Chinese name:Honeysuckle
Scientific name:Japan-es
Alternative names:Japanese honeysuckle, honeysuckle vine, silver vine, two-color flower vine, two-treasure vine, right-twining vine, zifeng vine, mandarin duck vine
Family:Caprifoliaceae
Genus:Lonicera
Origin and distribution:Distributed in Shandong, Henan, Inner Mongolia, Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and most other regions nationwide.
Morphological characteristics:The vine can reach up to 9 m long, with hollow stems and many branches. Leaves are opposite, ovate or long-ovate, 3-8 cm long and 1-3 cm wide, with short pubescence on young leaves and a grayish-green underside. Flowers are paired in leaf axils or borne at the tips of flowering branches; there are 2 leaf-like bracts; both pedicels and flowers have short pubescence; the corolla is white when it first opens and turns golden yellow after 2-3 days, hence the name honeysuckle. The calyx is small, 5-lobed, with triangular lobes; the corolla is slightly two-lipped, 3-5 cm long, the tube about as long as the lips, the upper lip 4-lobed, the lower lip unlobed, the outside covered with soft hairs and glandular hairs; stamens 5, ovary hairless, style slightly longer than the stamens, both extending beyond the corolla. The berry is spherical, black and glossy when ripe.
Honeysuckle benefits and uses
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● Honeysuckle tea: sweet in taste, cold in nature, with benefits such as clearing heat and detoxifying, and dispersing wind-heat. It can treat symptoms such as summer-heat syndrome, dysentery, influenza, sores and boils, acute and chronic tonsillitis, and periodontitis.
● The stems, leaves and flowers of honeysuckle all have medicinal value, with effects of detoxifying, reducing inflammation, killing viruses, sterilizing, promoting urination and relieving itching.
● Honeysuckle distillate: fresh honeysuckle carries a delicate fragrance and is the best product for preventing and treating prickly heat and pustules in children in summer.
Because honeysuckle is rather cold in medicinal nature, it is not suitable for long-term drinking; it is only suitable for temporary drinking in the hot summer to prevent and treat dysentery. What the editor wants to remind everyone here is that people with a deficiency-cold constitution and women during menstruation should not drink honeysuckle tea, as adverse reactions may occur. Although it has many benefits and uses, drinking too much can also be counterproductive.
Honeysuckle cultivation techniques
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【Seed propagationPick the fruit in November, put it in water and rub it clean, remove all the pulp and shriveled grains, take the plump seeds and dry them in the shade for later use. In April of the following year, place the seeds in warm water at 35-400°C, soak for 24 hours, take them out and mix with 2-3 times their volume of wet sand to promote germination. When about 30% of the seeds have cracked open, they can be sown. Before sowing, choose fertile sandy loam, deep plow 30-33 cm, and make flat beds about 65-70 cm wide; the length of the bed is not limited. After the bed is prepared, water it thoroughly, and when the soil is slightly dry and loose, level the bed surface, draw 3 shallow furrows per bed at a row spacing of 21-22 cm, evenly scatter the seeds in the furrows, and cover with 1 cm of fine soil. After sowing, keep the ground moist; a layer of weeds can be placed over the bed surface, spray water once every two days, and seedlings will emerge in about ten days. Seedlings can grow to 1 m tall in the same year. After growth stops in autumn, cut off the upper branches, leaving 30-40 cm, and transplant in early winter or the following spring. The seeding rate is about 15 kg per hectare.
【Cutting propagationIt is further divided into two types: direct cutting and nursery cutting.
● Direct cutting: In places with good water conditions, it can be done in all four seasons, generally during the rainy season or in early winter together with pruning. Select vigorous, pest-free, heavily flowering 1-2 year old branches, cut them into 30-35 cm lengths, remove the lower leaves and use them as cuttings, using them as soon as they are cut. On the prepared land, dig holes at a row spacing of 165 cm and a plant spacing of 150 cm, with holes 16-18 cm deep, place 5-6 cuttings per hole, spread them apart and bury them obliquely in the soil, leaving about 7-10 cm exposed above ground, then fill with soil and firm it by treading. In dry years, water after planting to increase the survival rate. The specific row and plant spacing can vary according to the terrain. For plain cultivation, after the wheat seedlings emerge in winter, together with pruning, cut off vigorous branches with 2 or 3 branchlets and insert them in holes at 4 500 plants per hectare within the wheat rows, and water immediately after planting.
● Nursery cutting: In order to save honeysuckle branches and facilitate management, nursery cutting is often used. The method is: choose a plot with convenient watering, deep plow and level it, and use farmyard manure as base fertilizer. In July-August, open furrows at a row spacing of 23-26 cm, about 16 cm deep, with a plant spacing of 2 cm, place the cuttings obliquely in the furrows, then fill with soil, cover evenly and press firm. After planting, water once, and afterward, if the weather is dry, water once every 2 days to keep the soil moist. In about half a month, they will take root and sprout, and they can be transplanted in spring or autumn of the following year.
Conclusion:In fact, growing honeysuckle is not difficult, and it is not strict about soil requirements; it can be cultivated on barren hills and field banks. Of course, fertile sandy soil with deep soil layers and a loose texture is best for growing honeysuckle.
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Honeysuckle benefits and uses, honeysuckle cultivation techniques
Honeysuckle can be found everywhere across the country, and it is deeply loved by people for its floral fragrance. Of course, honeysuckle tea and honeysuckle distillate also frequently appear in people's daily lives, but when it comes to the benefits and uses of honeysuckle as well as honeysuckle cultivation techniques, few people know about them, I believe. Below, the editor will give everyone a detailed introduction to the benefits and uses of honeysuckle and honeysuckle cultivation techniques.
【Benefits and UsesHangzhou white chrysanthemum Rangoon creeper Fragrant solomonseal rhizome Rhodiola Peony Calendula Lily Chinese rose Carnation Rosemary
[Honeysuckle] Honeysuckle benefits and uses, honeysuckle cultivation techniques
——————————————————————————————————————————————
[Plant Profile]
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Chinese name:Honeysuckle
Scientific name:Japan-es
Alternative names:Japanese honeysuckle, honeysuckle vine, silver vine, two-color flower vine, two-treasure vine, right-twining vine, zifeng vine, mandarin duck vine
Family:Caprifoliaceae
Genus:Lonicera
Origin and distribution:Distributed in Shandong, Henan, Inner Mongolia, Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and most other regions nationwide.
Morphological characteristics:The vine can reach up to 9 m long, with hollow stems and many branches. Leaves are opposite, ovate or long-ovate, 3-8 cm long and 1-3 cm wide, with short pubescence on young leaves and a grayish-green underside. Flowers are paired in leaf axils or borne at the tips of flowering branches; there are 2 leaf-like bracts; both pedicels and flowers have short pubescence; the corolla is white when it first opens and turns golden yellow after 2-3 days, hence the name honeysuckle. The calyx is small, 5-lobed, with triangular lobes; the corolla is slightly two-lipped, 3-5 cm long, the tube about as long as the lips, the upper lip 4-lobed, the lower lip unlobed, the outside covered with soft hairs and glandular hairs; stamens 5, ovary hairless, style slightly longer than the stamens, both extending beyond the corolla. The berry is spherical, black and glossy when ripe.
Honeysuckle benefits and uses
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● Honeysuckle tea: sweet in taste, cold in nature, with benefits such as clearing heat and detoxifying, and dispersing wind-heat. It can treat symptoms such as summer-heat syndrome, dysentery, influenza, sores and boils, acute and chronic tonsillitis, and periodontitis.
● The stems, leaves and flowers of honeysuckle all have medicinal value, with effects of detoxifying, reducing inflammation, killing viruses, sterilizing, promoting urination and relieving itching.
● Honeysuckle distillate: fresh honeysuckle carries a delicate fragrance and is the best product for preventing and treating prickly heat and pustules in children in summer.
Because honeysuckle is rather cold in medicinal nature, it is not suitable for long-term drinking; it is only suitable for temporary drinking in the hot summer to prevent and treat dysentery. What the editor wants to remind everyone here is that people with a deficiency-cold constitution and women during menstruation should not drink honeysuckle tea, as adverse reactions may occur. Although it has many benefits and uses, drinking too much can also be counterproductive.
Honeysuckle cultivation techniques
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【Seed propagationPick the fruit in November, put it in water and rub it clean, remove all the pulp and shriveled grains, take the plump seeds and dry them in the shade for later use. In April of the following year, place the seeds in warm water at 35-400°C, soak for 24 hours, take them out and mix with 2-3 times their volume of wet sand to promote germination. When about 30% of the seeds have cracked open, they can be sown. Before sowing, choose fertile sandy loam, deep plow 30-33 cm, and make flat beds about 65-70 cm wide; the length of the bed is not limited. After the bed is prepared, water it thoroughly, and when the soil is slightly dry and loose, level the bed surface, draw 3 shallow furrows per bed at a row spacing of 21-22 cm, evenly scatter the seeds in the furrows, and cover with 1 cm of fine soil. After sowing, keep the ground moist; a layer of weeds can be placed over the bed surface, spray water once every two days, and seedlings will emerge in about ten days. Seedlings can grow to 1 m tall in the same year. After growth stops in autumn, cut off the upper branches, leaving 30-40 cm, and transplant in early winter or the following spring. The seeding rate is about 15 kg per hectare.
【Cutting propagationIt is further divided into two types: direct cutting and nursery cutting.
● Direct cutting: In places with good water conditions, it can be done in all four seasons, generally during the rainy season or in early winter together with pruning. Select vigorous, pest-free, heavily flowering 1-2 year old branches, cut them into 30-35 cm lengths, remove the lower leaves and use them as cuttings, using them as soon as they are cut. On the prepared land, dig holes at a row spacing of 165 cm and a plant spacing of 150 cm, with holes 16-18 cm deep, place 5-6 cuttings per hole, spread them apart and bury them obliquely in the soil, leaving about 7-10 cm exposed above ground, then fill with soil and firm it by treading. In dry years, water after planting to increase the survival rate. The specific row and plant spacing can vary according to the terrain. For plain cultivation, after the wheat seedlings emerge in winter, together with pruning, cut off vigorous branches with 2 or 3 branchlets and insert them in holes at 4 500 plants per hectare within the wheat rows, and water immediately after planting.
● Nursery cutting: In order to save honeysuckle branches and facilitate management, nursery cutting is often used. The method is: choose a plot with convenient watering, deep plow and level it, and use farmyard manure as base fertilizer. In July-August, open furrows at a row spacing of 23-26 cm, about 16 cm deep, with a plant spacing of 2 cm, place the cuttings obliquely in the furrows, then fill with soil, cover evenly and press firm. After planting, water once, and afterward, if the weather is dry, water once every 2 days to keep the soil moist. In about half a month, they will take root and sprout, and they can be transplanted in spring or autumn of the following year.
Conclusion:In fact, growing honeysuckle is not difficult, and it is not strict about soil requirements; it can be cultivated on barren hills and field banks. Of course, fertile sandy soil with deep soil layers and a loose texture is best for growing honeysuckle.
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Honeysuckle benefits, uses and consumption methods Honeysuckle benefits, uses and consumption methods
Honeysuckle has a history of more than 2000 years in China. You may already know something about its benefits and consumption methods, but perhaps not comprehensively, so take a look at the effects and methods you may not know yet.
I. The history of honeysuckle
1. It is said that during the Three Kingdoms period, while Zhuge Liang was capturing Meng Huo seven times, some generals fell ill from unfamiliar climate and were affected by mountain miasma. On the way, they passed a small village and found that the residents had no food, so he felt compassion and distributed military rations. When an old man learned that the soldiers were sick, he had his twin granddaughters Jinhua and Yinhua go up the mountain to gather herbs. Unexpectedly, they did not return home after several days. When everyone found them, the herb baskets were full, but the children had already been eaten by wolves. Later, to commemorate them, people called the flower of this herb "honeysuckle."
2. Honeysuckle is also known as silver flower, golden flower, winter-resistant flower, and golden vine flower. In the Qin and Han dynasties, the monograph on Chinese materia medica "Shennong Bencao Jing" also recorded rendong, which is today's honeysuckle; and the Jin dynasty poet Duan Ke wrote in a poem: "There is a vine, the egret vine, born not by man, golden flowers among silver stamens, verdant and forming clusters by themselves." This shows that honeysuckle has a long history and profound influence in China's Chinese herbal medicine.
3. When the flower blooms, it is initially pure white and gradually turns yellow. The yellow is like the color of gold, and the white is like the color of silver, hence it is called honeysuckle.
II. The functions of honeysuckle
1. Clearing heat and detoxifying: It has a clear inhibitory effect on hemolytic streptococcus, dysentery, typhoid, and influenza viruses. Therefore, it has remarkable effects in treating throat obstruction, erysipelas, bloody dysentery due to heat toxin, wind-heat common cold, febrile disease with fever, and carbuncles, swellings, and furuncles.
2. Antibacterial and antiviral: Honeysuckle can promote the release of adrenal cortex hormones and has a clear inhibitory effect on inflammation.
3. Enhancing immunity: Honeysuckle can promote lymphocyte transformation and enhance the phagocytic function of white blood cells. It has a very good effect on enhancing resistance!?
4. Potted appreciation: Many places now appreciate potted plants such as chrysanthemums and roses, so how could honeysuckle be left out? They not only have good medicinal effects but also make a great contribution to appreciation.
III. Methods of using honeysuckle
1. Boil in water with other medicinal materials: It is said that Chinese medicine treats the root cause. Many friends will go to the hospital or search for relevant information online, prepare some health-preserving medicinal materials, take them home and boil them in water to drink, in order to achieve a certain therapeutic effect.
2. Steep in water and drink: Honeysuckle can be steeped in water alone or combined with other Chinese herbal medicines. The medicinal effects achieved differ accordingly. When summer comes, steeping a cup of honeysuckle both reduces summer heat and detoxifies.
???3. Pharmaceutical companies make it into granule instant preparations or combine it with their medicines to form new drugs.
Summary:Besides honeysuckle, there are many other flowers and plants that can be used as medicine, such as chrysanthemum, goji berry, and dwarf lilyturf, and appropriate combinations will also produce very good effects.
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