What are the benefits and effects of honeysuckle?
When it comes to honeysuckle, we all know that it can be steeped in water and drunk, and that it can clear heat and remove toxins. Honeysuckle is also known as Japanese honeysuckle, silver flower, double flower, and so on. It has a fragrant aroma and is a very good medicinal herb, with a good relieving effect on many symptoms of internal heat. Below we will give you a detailed introduction to the benefits of honeysuckle and how to identify it.
Pharmacological studies show that the active ingredients in honeysuckle have three main effects:
First, it is antibacterial and antiviral. That is, it has a clear inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus, Bacillus dysenteriae, Bacillus typhi, Neisseria meningitidis, Diplococcus pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and influenza virus, among others.
Second, it has the function of enhancing immunity. Honeysuckle can promote lymphocyte transformation and enhance the phagocytic function of white blood cells.
Third, it is anti-inflammatory and antipyretic. Honeysuckle can promote the release of adrenal cortex hormones and has a clear inhibitory effect on inflammation.
Honeysuckle decoction pieces can be roughly divided into 3 types: raw herb, fried herb, and charcoal herb. These 3 products differ in nature, flavor, and effects, and each has its own strengths in application.
Conventional dosage of honeysuckle: raw herb 10-30 grams, fried herb 10-20 grams, charcoal herb 10-15 grams. Note: for treating sores, ulcers, and abscesses, a larger dose of honeysuckle is appropriate, at 60-90 grams.
Benefits of drinking honeysuckle steeped in water
In traditional Chinese medicine, honeysuckle is considered cold in nature but fragrant in aroma. Although it has a very good effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, it does not easily harm the spleen and stomach, and has a very good effect of dispelling pathogenic factors. In addition, after drinking honeysuckle steeped in water, it can effectively disperse wind-heat, and it has a very good therapeutic effect on various blood toxins and heat-related ☆forbidden☆ diseases, commonly including macules, sore throat, body heat, and sores and abscesses, with very significant effects.
First: antibacterial and antiviral
Modern medical research has found that honeysuckle contains a substance that can effectively inhibit dysentery, typhoid, Neisseria meningitidis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus, influenza virus, and so on. It has a very good therapeutic effect on many diseases of the body, making the body healthier.
Second: clearing heat and removing toxins
The famous traditional Chinese medicine text Bencao Zheng records that honeysuckle has a neutral nature and a very obvious effect on clearing heat and removing toxins. In the hot summer, honeysuckle can often be steeped in water and drunk, which can not only relieve summer heat but also effectively boost alertness, making the body feel refreshed.
Honeysuckle has a very good effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, especially in treating some yang-type sores and ulcers. Honeysuckle can be decocted with mint, burdock fruit, and forsythia for oral use, which has a very good effect of relieving the exterior and reducing fever; if honeysuckle is mixed with forsythia, fresh rehmannia, bamboo leaf rolls, and figwort, the effect is mainly to clear the nutrient level and purge heat.
Third: anti-inflammatory
After entering the body, honeysuckle can effectively promote the release of adrenal cortex hormones. This hormone has a very good inhibitory effect on various inflammations and swelling and pain. Therefore, if the body has inflammation, or if you want to do a good job of preventing inflammation, you can take an appropriate amount of honeysuckle water.
Fourth: enhancing body immunity
A certain substance contained in honeysuckle can effectively promote lymphocyte transformation, thereby better enhancing the phagocytic function of white blood cells, and the body's resistance will also become better and better. In addition, modern medicine has also found that regularly drinking honeysuckle water has a very good preventive and therapeutic effect on many kinds of cancer and tumors.
Benefits and effects of honeysuckle
Cold in nature, sweet in flavor; enters the lung and stomach meridians; clears heat and removes toxins, disperses wind-heat. Mainly treats the early stage of carbuncles, swellings, and boils with redness, swelling, heat, and pain, externally contracted wind-heat, the early stage of warm disease, heat-toxin blood dysentery, summer-heat irritability and thirst, and sore throat.
Nutritional value of honeysuckle
Honeysuckle contains isochlorogenic acid, strychnine glycoside, luteolin, chlorogenic acid, inositol, and other components, and is rich in volatile oil. The main components in the oil are bisflorol, linalool, and so on.
Purchasing honeysuckle
Those with yellow-white color and large, plump bodies are preferred.
Storing honeysuckle
Place in a cool, dry place, protect from moisture, and protect from insects.