Medicinal value of honeysuckle vine

We all know that honeysuckle is a treasure from head to toe. It has great benefits for people's health, and the different parts of honeysuckle will also bring different effects to people's health. Honeysuckle vine is also a very good medicinal material among honeysuckle. Chinese medicine calls honeysuckle vine also called honeysuckle vine, and it is used to treat many diseases. The medicinal value of honeysuckle vine is very great and it brings many benefits to people. So do you know what the functions of honeysuckle vine are?

Honeysuckle vine is also known as gold and silver vine, honeysuckle vine, right-handed vine, thousand-gold vine, old man's beard, golden hairpin, big lychee, egret vine, willow vine, mandarin duck grass, honeysuckle, left-wrapped vine, cold-tolerant grass, spiritual grass, honey barrel vine, honeysuckle vine, gold and silver vine, honeysuckle pole, sweet vine, right-handed vine, two-flower vine, silver flower vine, purified honeysuckle vine, honeysuckle grass, silver flower vine, and two-flower vine.

【Nature and flavor】: Sweet; cold in nature.

① "Bielu": sweet, warm, non-toxic.

② "Material Treatise": spicy taste.

③ "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica": Minor Cold.

④ "Bencao Zaixin": tastes sweet and bitter, slightly cold in nature.

【Precautions】: It is forbidden to use in patients with spleen and stomach deficiency, and persistent diarrhea.

[Effects and functions of honeysuckle vine]: Clears away heat and detoxifies; dredges the meridians. It is used to treat fever caused by febrile diseases; sores, carbuncles, swelling and infection; dysentery caused by heat toxins; and rheumatism and heat arthralgia. It is used for fever caused by febrile diseases, bloody dysentery caused by heat toxins, carbuncles, ulcers, rheumatism and heat arthralgia, and red, swollen, hot and painful joints.

① "Bielu": It is used to treat cold, heat, and body swelling.

②Tao Hongjing: Boil the juice to make wine, which can replenish deficiency and cure wind.

③ "Materia Medica": It is used to treat abdominal distension and can promote the downward flow of earth energy.

④ "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica": It is used to treat heat toxicity, bloody dysentery, and watery dysentery.

⑤ "Lu Canyan Materia Medica": Treats pain in muscles and bones.

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": It can relieve the middle and lower qi, eliminate phlegm, dispel wind and heat, and clear the hot and painful throat.

⑦ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats all rheumatism and swelling, carbuncle, scabies, bayberry sores, dissipates heat and detoxifies.

⑧ "Bencao Zaixin": Treats heart deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, replenishes qi and relieves fullness, cough, carbuncle and impotence. .

⑨ "Nanjing Folk Herbs": The stems, leaves and flowers are effective in treating eye inflammation.

⑩ "Guizhou Folk Prescriptions and Medicines Collection": Leaves: applied externally to treat knife wounds.

⑾Guangzhou Army's "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": Treats leg pain caused by damp heat.

[Additional prescription]: ① Treating exogenous diseases of all seasons, fever, thirst, or limb aches and pains: Honeysuckle vine (with leaves or flowers, dried) 1 liang (3 liang of fresh). Decoction and drink frequently instead of tea. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)

② Treat bloody dysentery caused by heat toxins: decoct honeysuckle vine in a concentrated solution. (Sheng Hui Fang)

③For treating carbuncle on the back, intestinal carbuncle, breast carbuncle, unknown swelling and pain, aversion to cold and high fever, similar to typhoid fever: 5 liang each of honeysuckle (remove the stem) and astragalus (remove the stalk), 1 liang and 2 qian of angelica, and 8 liang of licorice (roasted). Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, take 2 qian each time, add 1.5 cups of wine, boil until 1 cup remains. If the disease is in the upper part, take the medicine after meals; if the disease is in the lower part, take the medicine before meals, and take the second dose after a while; keep the residue for external application. Those that have not yet formed pus will disappear internally, and those that have already formed pus will burst immediately. (The miraculous Tolisan from the Bureau of Prescriptions)

④For treating all carbuncle: 5 liang of honeysuckle vine (raw), 1 liang of licorice root node. Use two bowls of water to boil the above ingredients into one bowl. Add one bowl of good wine without ash and boil it for several times. Remove the residue and divide it into three doses. Use it up in one day and night. If the patient is seriously ill, take two doses day and night until urination and defecation are normal. Also, use a handful of honeysuckle vines, grind them into powder, and apply it around the body with a little wine. (Honeysuckle wine from Essentials of Surgery)

⑤ Treat all kinds of swelling and pain, wounds caused by metal blades, and malignant sores: 4 liang of golden vine, 3 qian of magnet, and 1 jin of fragrant oil. Boil until dry and remove the dregs, add 8 liang of yellow ochre, and boil until no water drops from it, then use as usual. (Honeysuckle Cream from "The Secret of Business")

⑥To treat persistent ulcers: a handful of left-wrapped vines. Mash it, add 5 fen of realgar and 2 liters of water, boil it in a clay pot, seal it with seven layers of paper, make a hole, wait for the gas to come out, and fumigate the hole with the sore for three hours. After the yellow water comes out, use tissue-growing medicine to achieve the effect. It can also treat carbuncle caused by calomel poison. ("Yu Jushi's Selection of Wonderful Prescriptions")

⑦To treat long-term sores that turn into fistulas: soak honeysuckle in wine and drink it regularly. (Essentials of Diagnosis and Treatment)

⑧Treat rheumatoid arthritis: 1 liang of honeysuckle vine, 4 qian of rare spatholobi, 5 qian of millettia reticulata, 5 qian of old crane grass, 4 qian of white mulberry, decocted in water and taken orally. (Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine)

⑨To treat poisonous grass poisoning: Take an appropriate amount of fresh tender stems and leaves of honeysuckle, wash them with cold boiled water, chew them finely and drink them. (Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Shanghai)

What are the medicinal values ​​of honeysuckle vines? After reading the introduction above, I believe everyone knows more about honeysuckle vines. Honeysuckle vines are a very good Chinese medicinal material. They are of great help to people. They have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying. People who often suffer from joint pain and rheumatism can also use it frequently. However, although honeysuckle vines are good, you must ask a doctor when using them, so that it is safer to use.