How can you tell whether honeysuckle essential oil is good or bad, and what is it better to infuse it with?
The benefits of honeysuckle essential oil are excellent, so how do we know whether the essential oil we bought is good? We also know that honeysuckle has many benefits, so what should it be infused with to work better?
How to identify whether honeysuckle essential oil is good or bad
Check the packaging label:
Only products labeled "Pure Essential Oil" are 100% extracted from natural plants, with no artificial synthetic ingredients. If only a small amount of essential oil ingredients is added to the product, then the product name can only be labeled with names such as "Aromatherapy Oil", "Aromatherapy Blend", "Essence", and so on.
Check the container:
Essential oils evaporate easily, so they must be placed in dark glass bottles to ensure the purity of the essential oil. The corrosiveness of essential oils also means they must not be put into bottles made of plastic. So once you find a product with essential oil in a plastic bottle, you must never choose it.
Smell the fragrance:
Purely natural essential oils have a fragrant, pure scent. Artificially synthesized fragrances, however, have many mixed scents, so if at first smell it feels pungent or uncomfortable, there is a good chance the essential oil is fake. If it smells comfortable and does not cause dizziness, then it may be real.
What is honeysuckle good to infuse with
Infuse honeysuckle with mint. After adding honeysuckle to boiling water, directly add 1~2 washed mint leaves. This combination has a unique effect in preventing and treating sore throat, can play a role in dispelling wind and dissipating heat and cooling and releasing the exterior, and has a very good effect on treating fever, headache, and sore throat caused by wind-heat common cold.
Infuse honeysuckle with chrysanthemum. Chrysanthemum enhances capillary resistance, inhibits capillary permeability, and plays a role in anti-inflammation and strengthening the body; while honeysuckle clears heat and detoxifies, dispels wind-cold, and relieves summer heat and irritability; on a hot summer day, drinking a cup of chrysanthemum honeysuckle tea can lower your internal heat by several degrees. People who face computers every day can drink it in moderation, but people with a cold-deficient constitution should not drink it.
Honeysuckle goji berry tea. Drinking this tea can make your skin better and better, beautify and nourish the face, and at the same time also has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying and relieving irritability and moistening dryness; people with internal heat and kidney deficiency can drink it often, while people with diabetes should not drink it.
Astragalus honeysuckle tea. Astragalus has the effect of tonifying qi and nourishing blood, while honeysuckle has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying; generally use 10 grams each of astragalus and honeysuckle, then infuse in boiling water for 5 minutes, so that certain active ingredients dissolve into the water, and in this way, drinking it can produce a better effect.
Infuse honeysuckle with tea leaves. It can resist inflammation, dissipate heat, detoxify, and eliminate pathogenic factors, has a certain inhibitory effect on many pathogenic bacteria such as Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella paratyphi, and so on, has a strong effect of dissipating swelling and reducing abscesses on carbuncles, boils, intestinal abscesses, and lung abscesses, and has a certain effect on externally contracted wind-heat or the early stage of warm disease, with symptoms such as body heat and headache, restlessness and little sleep, clouded spirit and crimson tongue, and dry throat and mouth.
Paired with fresh reed root, honeysuckle has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, and detoxifying, and promoting body fluid and quenching thirst, and is suitable for patients with wind-heat common cold, the early stage of warm disease, and high fever with severe thirst.
30 grams of honeysuckle, 10 grams of mint, 60 grams of fresh reed root. First add 500 milliliters of water to the honeysuckle and reed root, boil for 15 minutes, then add the mint and boil for 3 minutes. Strain it out, add an appropriate amount of white sugar, and take it warm.
Together with hawthorn, honeysuckle has the effects of clearing heat, dissipating blood stasis, and promoting digestion, and is suitable for patients with poor appetite and indigestion caused by external contraction.