What are the common benefits and effects of honeysuckle
Many people like to grow bonsai to beautify their homes, and honeysuckle is a commonly used one. In fact, honeysuckle has other functions as well. Next, let us take a look at what the benefits and effects of honeysuckle are!
The nutritional value of honeysuckle tea
The stems, leaves and flowers of honeysuckle can all be used as medicine, and have the effects of detoxifying, reducing inflammation, killing viruses, killing bacteria, promoting urination and relieving itching. Honeysuckle dew is an excellent product for preventing and treating prickly heat and impetigo in children in summer. Fresh honeysuckle has a delicate fragrance and contains relatively much nectar, and rural children often pick the flowers to suck the nectar.
The stems of fresh flowers are sun-dried or dried by the method used to make green tea, which produces honeysuckle tea. There are two kinds, namely finished products of honeysuckle. There are two kinds of honeysuckle tea on the market. One is honeysuckle tea made by blending fresh honeysuckle with a small amount of green tea and scenting it according to the scenting process of honeysuckle tea; the other is made by blending dried honeysuckle that has been oven-dried or sun-dried with green tea.
Of these two kinds of honeysuckle tea, the former has a striking floral fragrance and is mainly for appreciating the floral scent; the latter has a weaker tea aroma, but can preserve the medicinal effects of honeysuckle without losing its health benefits. Honeysuckle tea is a health drink suitable for all ages, and is especially suitable for drinking in summer.
The benefits of honeysuckle
1. Used for externally contracted wind-heat or the early stage of warm disease. Honeysuckle is sweet and cold, and can clear heat in the qi aspect as well as clear heat in the blood aspect, and within its heat-clearing action it also has a mild effect of dispersing and releasing the exterior, so it can treat externally contracted wind-heat or the early stage of warm disease when the exterior symptoms have not been resolved and interior heat is also exuberant. In application, it is often used together with Forsythia suspensa, Arctium lappa fruit, mint and the like.
2. Used for sores, abscesses and swelling toxin, and sore throat. Honeysuckle has quite a strong effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and is a commonly used item in external medicine. It is generally used for sores, abscesses and swelling toxin with redness, swelling, heat and pain, and is more suitable for conditions that belong to "yang syndromes" in syndrome differentiation. It can be decocted in soup for internal use together with dandelion, Viola philippica, Forsythia suspensa, tree peony bark, red peony root and the like, or fresh honeysuckle can be used alone, mashed and applied externally.
3. Used for diarrhea and bloody stool caused by heat toxin (with mucus and blood mixed in the stool). When heat toxin gathers in the intestinal tract and enters the blood aspect, it causes dysentery and bloody stool. Honeysuckle can cool the blood and resolve heat toxin, so it can treat bloody dysentery and bloody stool. In clinical practice, charred honeysuckle is often used together with Scutellaria baicalensis, Coptis chinensis, white peony root, purslane and the like.
4. Honeysuckle is sweet in flavor and cold in nature, with a fragrant odor. It can both clear and outthrust to relieve the exterior, and resolve heat toxin in the blood aspect, and is especially an essential medicine for treating yang-type sores and ulcers. Combined with Forsythia suspensa, Arctium lappa fruit, mint and Schizonepeta tenuifolia, it relieves the exterior and resolves heat; combined with fresh rehmannia, Scrophularia ningpoensis, Forsythia suspensa, bamboo leaf roll hearts and the like, it clears the nutrient level and drains heat; combined with Viola philippica, wild chrysanthemum and dandelion, it detoxifies and treats sores; combined with Astragalus membranaceus, angelica and licorice, it expels toxin and reduces abscesses; combined with Scutellaria baicalensis, white peony root, licorice and the like, it clears heat and treats dysentery.
The effects of honeysuckle
First: antibacterial and antiviral
Modern medical research has found that honeysuckle contains a substance that can effectively inhibit dysentery, typhoid, meningococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus, influenza virus and so on, and has a very good therapeutic effect on many diseases of the body, making the body healthier.
Second: clearing heat and detoxifying
The famous traditional Chinese medicine text Bencao Zheng records that honeysuckle has a neutral nature and a very obvious effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. In hot summer, you can often brew honeysuckle in water and drink it, which can not only have a heat-relieving effect, but also improve alertness very well, making the body feel refreshed.
Third: reducing inflammation
After honeysuckle enters the body, it can effectively promote the release of adrenal cortex hormone, and this hormone has a very good inhibitory effect on various inflammations and swelling and pain. Therefore, if inflammation occurs in the body, 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 very well promote the transformation of lymphocytes, so that it can better enhance 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 taking honeysuckle water has a very good preventive and therapeutic effect on many kinds of cancer and tumors.
Fifth: treating diarrhea and bloody stool
You can brew honeysuckle in water and drink it, or put it in a clean pot, decoct it and take it, and it has very good effects of cooling the blood, stopping dysentery and detoxifying. If the dysentery or the pus and blood condition is already very serious, then you can also mix honeysuckle with Coptis chinensis, red peony root and Pulsatilla chinensis, decoct them together and take them, and the effect is very good.
Sixth: dispersing heat and dissipating pathogen
If the body has headache and fever, or insomnia and many dreams, or fatigue, then brewing honeysuckle in water and drinking it can regulate the body very well. In addition, if the body has symptoms of chapped lips and dry mouth and tongue, taking honeysuckle can also relieve them very well.
Side effects of honeysuckle tea
Honeysuckle has a relatively cold medicinal nature and is not suitable for long-term drinking. It is only suitable for temporary drinking in hot summer to prevent and treat dysentery. In particular, it should be noted that people with a deficiency-cold constitution and during menstruation should not drink it, otherwise adverse reactions may occur. It is better to drink it only when you feel you have internal heat; drinking too much will be counterproductive.
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If the dysentery or the pus and blood condition is already very serious, then you can also mix honeysuckle with Coptis chinensis, red peony root and Pulsatilla chinensis, decoct them together and take them, and the effect is very good.Sixth: dispersing heat and dissipating pathogen
If the body has headache and fever, or insomnia and many dreams, or fatigue, then brewing honeysuckle in water and drinking it can regulate the body very well. In addition, if the body has symptoms of chapped lips and dry mouth and tongue, taking honeysuckle can also relieve them very well.
Side effects of honeysuckle tea
Honeysuckle has a relatively cold medicinal nature and is not suitable for long-term drinking. It is only suitable for temporary drinking in hot summer to prevent and treat dysentery. In particular, it should be noted that people with a deficiency-cold constitution and during menstruation should not drink it, otherwise adverse reactions may occur. It is better to drink it only when you feel you have internal heat; drinking too much will be counterproductive.
The above is all the content I have summarized for you on the common benefits and effects of honeysuckle. I hope this article can help everyone. Please also continue to follow us.