Can I eat honeysuckle if I have constipation

There are more and more constipation patients around us. Constipation can be caused by many reasons. The main cause of constipation is dietary problems. Some patients suffer from constipation due to bad bowel habits. Some elderly friends also suffer from constipation because of the degeneration of intestinal peristalsis function.

So is there anything we can do to relieve and treat constipation?

We can take good care of patients with constipation through diet. Patients with constipation can eat more foods containing crude fiber, which is conducive to defecation, and they should develop a good habit of defecation on time. Patients with constipation can eat more foods that can promote intestinal peristalsis.

Honeysuckle, also known as honeysuckle (scientific name: Lonicera japonica). The name "honeysuckle" comes from "Compendium of Materia Medica". Because the honeysuckle flowers are white when they first bloom and then turn yellow, they are named honeysuckle. The medicinal herb honeysuckle is the dried buds or initially opened flowers of the plant Lonicera japonica and plants of the same genus in the Caprifoliaceae family.

Honeysuckle blooms in March, has five petals, a slight fragrance, and a red stem. The flowers are white when they first open, and turn yellow after one or two days, hence the name honeysuckle. Because there are two flowers on one stalk, and two stamens sticking out, they are in pairs and inseparable, like a male and female accompanying each other, or like mandarin ducks dancing, it is called Mandarin Duck Vine.

The most obvious feature of this species is the large leaf-like bracts. It looks somewhat like the South China Honeysuckle, but the bracts of that species are narrow rather than leaf-shaped, the calyx tube is densely covered with short soft hairs, and the twigs are densely covered with curly short soft hairs, which are obviously different from this species. This species has great morphological variation, with great changes in the hairs of branches and leaves, the shape and size of leaves, the length of the corolla, the hairs, and the ratio of the length of the lip to the tube. But all these changes seem to be more related to the ecological environment and do not show any correlation with geographical distribution.

Honeysuckle has been praised as a good medicine for clearing away heat and detoxifying since ancient times. It is sweet, cold and aromatic. It can clear away heat without hurting the stomach. Its aromatic fragrance can also dispel evil. Honeysuckle can not only dispel wind-heat, but also clear blood toxins. It is used to treat various febrile diseases, such as fever, rash, spots, heat and toxic sores, sore throat, etc., and the effect is significant.

Honeysuckle has been widely known for its medicinal value since ancient times. Its main effect is to clear away heat and detoxify. It is mainly used to treat fever caused by febrile diseases, bloody diarrhea caused by heat toxins, carbuncles, furuncles, etc. Modern research has shown that honeysuckle contains pharmacologically active ingredients such as chlorogenic acid and luteolin, which have a strong inhibitory effect on various pathogenic bacteria such as hemolytic streptococci and Staphylococcus aureus, and upper respiratory tract infection pathogenic viruses. In addition, it can also enhance immunity, prevent early pregnancy, protect the liver, fight tumors, reduce inflammation, reduce fever, stop bleeding (coagulation), inhibit intestinal absorption of cholesterol, etc. It has a wide range of clinical uses and can be used in combination with other drugs to treat more than 40 diseases such as respiratory tract infections, bacillary dysentery, acute urinary tract infections, and hypertension.

We introduced above that there are many patients suffering from constipation nowadays. We analyzed several causes of constipation. Diet, degeneration of intestinal peristalsis function and bad bowel habits are all causes of constipation. The honeysuckle mentioned above has good detoxification and anti-inflammatory effects. Honeysuckle can lose weight, so patients with constipation can eat some honeysuckle appropriately.

Honeysuckle is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the lung, heart, and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, tonifying deficiency and treating wind. It is mainly used to treat bloating and lower body diseases, fever due to febrile diseases, heat and toxic carbuncles, and tumors. It has certain therapeutic effects on dizziness, dry mouth, sweating, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, measles, pneumonia, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, acute mastitis, sepsis, appendicitis, skin infections, carbuncles, erysipelas, mumps, and purulent tonsillitis.

Boiled water with honeysuckle vines has a certain therapeutic effect on children's eczema and other skin itching, and has an inhibitory effect on many pathogenic bacteria and viruses of livestock and poultry. If a certain dose of honeysuckle vine leaves (honeysuckle vine) powder or boiled water can be added during the animal breeding process, it will have a very good effect on the prevention and treatment of animal febrile fever, wind-heat cold, pharyngitis, pneumonia, dysentery, swelling and ulcers, erysipelas, cellulitis and other diseases. Using Forsythia suspensa, Isatis root and honeysuckle decoction can treat mumps; honeysuckle tea can dispel heat and improve eyesight; Forsythia suspensa and honeysuckle cold soup can treat exogenous fever and cough. At the same time, add honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, platycodon and licorice to water and boil for 10 minutes, then let it cool and drink it as a beverage to treat pharyngitis and tonsillitis.

The honeysuckle preparations that have been produced include "Yinqiao Jiedu Tablets", "Yinhuang Tablets", "Yinhuang Injection" and so on. "Honeysuckle dew" is the aromatic volatile oil and water-soluble exudate extracted from honeysuckle by distillation. It is a good product for clearing heat and detoxifying. It can treat fetal toxins, sores, furunculosis, fever and thirst in children. It can be used instead of tea in summer to treat warm sha pox, bloody dysentery, etc. The stem vine is called "honeysuckle vine" and is also used for medicinal purposes. The active ingredients of honeysuckle are chlorogenic acid and isochlorogenic acid. This is a secondary metabolite produced during plant metabolism. Its content not only depends on the type of plant, but may also be greatly affected by ecological and geographical conditions such as climate and soil, as well as phenological periods.

Honeysuckle tea has a unique weight-loss function, and can also inhibit and kill pathogens in the throat, and has anti-infection effects on the elderly and children. Regular consumption of honeysuckle soaked or decoction is beneficial to the treatment and recovery of wind-fire red eyes, sore throat, obesity, liver heat syndrome and liver-heat type hypertension.