What is the general price of honeysuckle per jin?

Honeysuckle is a perennial semi-evergreen twining and creeping shrub of the genus Lonicera in the family Caprifoliaceae. Since ancient times it has been hailed as a good medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying, as it can both dispel wind-heat and effectively clear blood toxins. It is distributed in every province of China, with cultivation areas mainly concentrated in Shandong, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places. Now let us take a look at how much honeysuckle costs!

How much does honeysuckle cost?

Honeysuckle has a wide range of medicinal value and health-care uses, thus bringing boundless business opportunities to merchants. It is understood that prices vary from region to region: the price of honeysuckle in the southern agricultural products trading area is about 54 yuan/kg, in the Beichuan area it is 132 yuan/kg, in Pingyi, Shandong, honeysuckle sells slowly at about 100 yuan per kg, and in Fengqiu, Henan, the highest price is 120 yuan/kg while the lowest is 75 yuan/kg.

How to brew honeysuckle in water

1. Honeysuckle tea: 20 g of honeysuckle, decocted in water as a tea substitute or brewed as tea, to treat sore throat and prevent upper respiratory tract infections.

2. Three-flower tea: 10 g each of honeysuckle and chrysanthemum, and 3 g of jasmine, brewed with boiling water. It can clear heat and detoxify, and treat headache, thirst and sore throat. Decocted in water and used for external washing, this tea can also treat dermatitis.

3. Three-flower boat-fruited sterculia tea: 4 g of chrysanthemum, 3 g each of honeysuckle and camellia, 3 boat-fruited sterculia seeds, and 10 g of rock sugar, brewed in boiling water for 5 minutes, then drunk, 1 dose per day for 3 consecutive days. It can clear heat and detoxify, soothe the throat and moisten it, and is mainly used for influenza and dry, itchy and painful throat.

4. Honeysuckle mint tea: 10 g each of honeysuckle and mint, brewed with boiling water, covered and steeped for 15 minutes, then add an appropriate amount of honey and drink. In summer it is used to clear heat and relieve summer heat, and to clear prickly heat.

5. Honeysuckle licorice tea: 15 g of honeysuckle and 3 g of raw licorice, brewed with boiling water. In summer it is used to prevent heatstroke, cool down, clear heat and quench thirst. Decocted in water and used as a gargle, this tea can also treat pharyngitis and mouth ulcers.

6. Honeysuckle rhubarb tea: 10 g of honeysuckle and 3 g of rhubarb, brewed together as tea and seasoned with an appropriate amount of honey. It has the effects of clearing heat, purging water and moistening the intestines to relieve constipation, and is used to treat habitual constipation.

7. Honeysuckle drink: an appropriate amount of honeysuckle and hawthorn, brewed with boiling water and drunk as a tea substitute. It is used to stimulate appetite and aid digestion.

The effects and functions of honeysuckle

[Nature and flavor] Cold in nature, sweet in flavor.

[Meridian entry] Lung, heart and stomach meridians.

[Effects] Clearing heat and detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, tonifying deficiency and treating wind. It mainly treats distension and diarrhea, warm-disease fever, heat-toxin abscesses and sores, tumors and other conditions.

1. Antimicrobial: Honeysuckle has a certain inhibitory effect on many pathogenic bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic Streptococcus, Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, Vibrio cholerae, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella paratyphi, etc. It has bacteriostatic and bactericidal effects on Pneumococcus, Neisseria meningitidis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Shigella dysenteriae, Streptococcus mutans, etc., and has inhibitory effects on influenza virus, orphan virus, herpes virus and Leptospira.

2. Anti-inflammatory and detoxifying: Honeysuckle has a strong effect on dispersing abscesses and reducing swelling, and clearing heat and detoxifying, for abscesses, boils and sores, intestinal abscess and lung abscess.

3. Dispersing heat and dispelling pathogenic factors: Honeysuckle has a certain effect on externally contracted wind-heat or the early stage of warm disease, with symptoms such as body fever, headache, restlessness and insomnia, mental confusion and crimson tongue, and dry throat and mouth.

4. Cooling blood and stopping dysentery: Honeysuckle has the effect of detoxifying, stopping dysentery, cooling blood and soothing the throat for heat-toxin dysentery, dysentery with pus and blood, damp-warmth obstructing the throat, and sore throat.

Precautions for using honeysuckle

1. Never take an overdose: Honeysuckle is cold in nature, and taking too much can easily cause discomfort in the stomach and intestines. Some people take a large amount of honeysuckle at one time in order to enhance its effects on the body, but this brings no benefit to the body, only harm.

2. Do not take during menstruation: Menstruation is the most special period for all women. During this stage, women must take good care of themselves and eat or come into contact with fewer cold foods or objects. Honeysuckle is cold in nature, so it is best not to take it during menstruation to avoid adverse effects on the body.

3. Use with caution in case of deficient cold of the spleen and stomach: Honeysuckle is cold in nature, so if the patient originally has a deficient cold constitution and is prone to weakness and frequent illness, then drinking honeysuckle in water will not only fail to nourish and maintain health, but will instead increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, which is very unfavorable to health.

4. Choosing the season for taking it: Honeysuckle is not suitable for taking in all four seasons. Experts suggest that if you want the best health benefits, it is best to take honeysuckle in summer. Because the weather is hot in summer, the body is prone to heatstroke and thirst, and taking honeysuckle at this time can effectively promote body fluid production and quench thirst, and clear heat and detoxify.

5. Take overnight tea with caution: Drinking honeysuckle in water is actually the same principle as brewing tea daily. It is enough to brew it two or three times, and after it has been left overnight it is best not to drink it, to avoid affecting health due to spoilage.