Detailed Explanation of the Key Technical Points for GAP Cultivation of Honeysuckle
The original plant of honeysuckle is Lonicera japonica Thunb., a plant of the Caprifoliaceae family, also known as silver flower and two-flower. It is a perennial evergreen vine-like shrub. It is mainly produced in Shandong and Henan nationwide, and can be produced in most areas, among which the production areas abundant in high-quality honeysuckle lie between 32o-35o north latitude.
I. The health value of honeysuckle
Since ancient times, honeysuckle has been widely famous for its medicinal value. The Shennong Bencao Jing records: "Honeysuckle is cold in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling the blood and resolving stasis, and is mainly used to treat externally contracted wind-heat, pestilential disease and furunculosis, redness, swelling, heat and pain, and bloody purulent stool," and so on.
In recent years, on the basis of traditional medicine, dozens of medical and health products have been developed, such as "Yinhuang Oral Liquid", "Shuanghuanglian Oral Liquid", "Zhonghua Toothpaste" containing honeysuckle, "Rendong Flower Cigarettes", "Jiannao Bushen Pills", "Qingre Jiedu Oral Liquid", "Honeysuckle Solution", "Honeysuckle Facial Cleanser'", "Honeysuckle Beer", "Honeysuckle Crystals", "Honeysuckle Tea", and so on, and they have always sold well in domestic and foreign markets without decline. The extensive medicinal value and health uses of honeysuckle have brought unlimited business opportunities to merchants. The honeysuckle tea researched and developed by the Nanjing Institute of Wild Plants of the Ministry of Commerce of China using modern science and technology sells well in Hong Kong, China, Singapore and the United States. The medical raw material "chlorogenic acid" extracted from honeysuckle sells for more than 1000 yuan per kilogram, and it is still in short supply and in great demand in domestic and foreign markets. Honeysuckle can also be exported directly without processing after being dried in the sun or by baking to earn foreign exchange, and China's annual export of honeysuckle earns tens of millions of US dollars in foreign exchange.
II. The three major benefits of honeysuckle
1. Economic benefits: Every part of honeysuckle is a treasure, and the economic returns from introducing and planting honeysuckle are very substantial. The uses of honeysuckle are becoming more and more extensive, and it has gradually developed from a single Chinese herbal medicine to tea, beverages, food and daily chemical products, and other aspects. New honeysuckle products not only sell quietly in the domestic market, but especially in the domestic market they have also received widespread welcome and favor.
One mu of honeysuckle is planted with 450 holes, and it can enter the full flowering period in the third to fourth year, with a yield of 100-150 kg of high-quality dried flowers per mu. Calculated at the average market price of 30 yuan/kg in recent years, a per-mu output value of 3000-4500 yuan can be achieved. If scientific management is implemented, the yield can be maintained without decline for more than 10 years.
2. The medical benefits of honeysuckle: Honeysuckle is a precious Chinese medicinal material in China. Mingyi Bielu records that honeysuckle has the effect of treating "summerheat with body swelling". Li Shizhen said in Bencao Gangmu that honeysuckle can treat all wind-damp qi and various swollen toxins, scabies, and various malignant sores such as syphilitic sores. It calls honeysuckle both a good medicine for "treating wind and eliminating depression, resolving dysentery and expelling corpses" and a good formula for "dispersing heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and treating sores". Recently, American scientists announced that honeysuckle can prevent and treat "AIDS", a stubborn disease worldwide that had been impossible to treat. With the continuous progress of science and technology in the world, the understanding of honeysuckle at home and abroad has been further improved. According to modern pharmacological analysis reports: the main medicinal component contained in the flowers, stems and leaves of honeysuckle is chlorogenic acid. Chlorogenic acid has been proven clinically to have broad