Honeysuckle. A dried flower bud or flower at the initial flowering stage from Lonicera japonica Thunb.
Pick and dry flowers before they bloom in early summer.
Ancient records
Compendium of Materia Medica records that honeysuckle nourishes blood to quench thirst. Treat scabies. "
The Compendium of Materia Medica in South Yunnan records that honeysuckle "clears away heat, heals sores, produces carbuncle, sends it back, and causes scrofula".
It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that it can "eliminate carbuncle and furuncle, stop dysentery, wash scabies, and remove skin and blood heat".
"Chongqing Tang Essay" records that honeysuckle "unblocks collaterals, apoplexy, fire, damp heat, relieves epidemic diseases and evil spirits, calms liver and gallbladder, floats wind and yang, and treats spasm, syncope and epilepsy".
"Ben Feng Jing Yuan" records: "Honeysuckle, which detoxifies and expels pus, tonifies the middle energizer and purges, is the holy medicine after ulcer. However, those with qi deficiency and pus are clear, and those who eat less and have diarrhea should not use it. "
"Herbal Zheng Zheng" records that honeysuckle is "good at detoxifying, so it is an important medicine for treating carbuncle, swollen poison, tinea and sore, bayberry and rheumatism".
"Herbal Xuan Tong" records: "Honeysuckle is mainly used to treat diarrhea, eliminate carbuncle and detoxify, tonify deficiency and cure wind, but the world knows its disinfection effect, but it is not used to benefit wind deficiency, and it is used for various diseases, and it has often achieved results."
Determine key points
(1) is rod-shaped, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, slightly curved.
(2) The surface is yellowish-white or greenish-white, and the color becomes darker after a long time, and it is densely pubescent. Calyx green, apex 5-lobed, lobes hairy.
(3) The smell is fragrant and the taste is light and slightly bitter.
According to traditional experience, the flowers are not blooming, the buds are fat, the color is bluish green and slightly white, the body is dry, there are no branches and leaves, and the fragrance is good.
Edible guide
Chinese medicine believes that honeysuckle is sweet in taste and cold in nature; Enter the lung and stomach meridians. Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispelling pathogenic wind and clearing heat. It has a certain curative effect on swelling and furuncle, swelling and pain, exogenous wind and heat, early onset of epidemic febrile disease, bloody dysentery due to heat toxicity, polydipsia due to summer heat and sore throat.
1. honeysuckle lotus seed soup
Formula honeysuckle 25 grams, lotus seeds 50 grams, sugar right amount.
Wash honeysuckle, soak lotus seeds in warm water, peel, remove heart and wash. Put lotus seeds in a casserole, add water and bring to a boil with strong fire, then cook with slow fire until cooked, add washed honeysuckle, cook for 5 minutes, add sugar and mix well.
Usage: Eat early and eat late.
Function of clearing away heat and toxic materials, strengthening spleen and stopping diarrhea.
2. honeysuckle medlar soup
Formula: 20g honeysuckle, 0/0g medlar/kloc, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Production: Wash honeysuckle, put it in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil it with strong fire, turn to slow fire and continue cooking for 20 minutes, then add Lycium barbarum and rock sugar and cook for 10 minute.
Usage: Eat early and eat late.
Functions: clearing away heat and toxic materials, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, moistening lung and nourishing kidney.
3. Honeysuckle hawthorn drink
Formula honeysuckle 30g, hawthorn 10g, honey 250ml.
Preparation: Wash Flos Lonicerae and Fructus Crataegi, put them into a pot, add appropriate amount of clear water, boil them with strong fire, fry them with low fire for 15 minutes, then filter out the liquid medicine, add appropriate amount of clear water and fry them once, filter out the liquid medicine, combine the two liquid medicines, add honey and stir evenly.
Usage is twice in the morning and evening.
The function is cool. Suitable for wind-heat cold, fever, headache and thirst.
4. Double-flowered carp pot
Prepare 6 g of honeysuckle, 60 g of fresh chrysanthemum, carp 1, cooking wine 10 ml, 5 g of salt, 3 g of monosodium glutamate, 5 g of ginger, 3 g of onion 10 g of pepper and 3000 ml of bonzi bone soup.
Picking chrysanthemum petals, rinsing with water for 2 hours, and draining; Removing impurities from Flos Lonicerae, and cleaning; After the carp is slaughtered, the gill, scales and intestinal impurities are removed and chopped into large pieces; Pat the ginger loosely and cut the onion into pieces. Put chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, carp, cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, ginger, scallion and bonzi bone soup into a pot. Put the pot on the stove and bring it to a boil.
Usage: 65438+ 0 times a day.
Function of dispelling wind and clearing heat, improving eyesight and benefiting water. Suitable for headache, dizziness, red eyes, cardiothoracic irritation, edema, menopausal syndrome and other symptoms.
Edible taboo
Menstrual women are prohibited. Use with caution for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold and weak constitution. Diarrhea, loose stool and abscess due to yin-cold are not edible.
Non-clinical practitioners are not allowed to use drugs without authorization to avoid adverse consequences. Patients must take medicine under the guidance of a clinician.
Text/Xu Chuangeng
Source/WeChat WeChat official account "China Medical Science and Technology Publishing House"