What is the nature and flavor of honeysuckle

Honeysuckle is very common. I believe that friends living in the suburbs or rural areas are no strangers to it. In fact, honeysuckle has great medicinal value. Honeysuckle has a unique aromatic smell. This flower can dispel wind-heat and clear blood toxins. Honeysuckle can be used to treat many febrile diseases, such as fever, rash, and heat-toxic sores. Let me introduce some knowledge about honeysuckle.

Nature and flavor: sweet, cold. It enters the lung, heart and stomach meridians. Functions and indications: Clears away heat and detoxifies, cools and disperses wind-heat. Used for carbuncle, furuncle, throat congestion, erysipelas, dysentery caused by hot blood, wind-heat cold, and fever caused by febrile disease. Dosage and administration: 6-15g. Storage method: Store in a cool, dry place, away from moisture and insects.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that honeysuckle is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and has a flat temperament. It has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, and can treat heat-toxic swelling, carbuncle, furuncle and other symptoms. Because it has a dispersing effect, it can also treat exogenous wind-heat and the initial stage of febrile disease. For example, Yinqiao Jiedu Tablets (Pills) for treating wind-heat colds use honeysuckle as the main ingredient. Yinhuang tablets made with Scutellaria baicalensis can treat acute upper respiratory tract infections, acute pharyngitis, acute tonsillitis, etc. Honeysuckle can be distilled with water to obtain "honeysuckle dew", which has the effect of clearing away summer heat and relieving fever. It can treat children's heat carbuncle, prickly heat, summer heat and other symptoms.

Since ancient times, there has been a custom in my country that when the hot summer comes, giving children a few cups of honeysuckle tea can prevent the occurrence of summer heat boils; when the summer heat comes, drinking honeysuckle tea can prevent heatstroke, enteritis, dysentery and other diseases. During the hot summer, people are prone to heatstroke. Making herbal tea with honeysuckle and drinking it frequently can prevent heatstroke.

In fact, many common diseases can be treated with honeysuckle. For example, honeysuckle is very effective in treating skin itching, measles, bacterial dysentery, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, etc. Honeysuckle can be made into Chinese patent medicine. For example, some detoxification tablets, granules, injections, etc. contain honeysuckle extract ingredients.