What are the medicinal parts of honeysuckle?

Honeysuckle is a plant that we are all very familiar with. Many people use honeysuckle in our lives. This is because honeysuckle can not only help people clear away heat and relieve fire, but also stimulate people's taste. People use honeysuckle flowers because drinking tea with them can improve eyesight and relieve heat, so it is popular with everyone. So do you know what the medicinal parts of honeysuckle are? Let’s talk about it in detail below.

Honeysuckle is a treasure from head to toe and has been widely known for its medicinal value since ancient times. The whole body of honeysuckle can be used as medicine. As early as more than 2,000 years ago, our ancestors had a certain understanding of it. In the fifth century AD, people began to use its stems and leaves as medicine. "Shennong's Herbal Classic" records: "Honeysuckle is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and removing blood stasis. It is mainly used to treat exogenous wind-heat, the initial onset of plague, sores and viruses, redness, swelling, heat and pain, and bloody stools". It is listed as a top-grade product and has records of "long-term use to make the body lighter" and "the functions of the stems, leaves, flowers and roots are the same"; "Famous Doctors' Records" records that it has the function of treating "heat and swelling in the summer heat"; Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty used flower buds as medicine, and said in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that it can treat "all rheumatism and various swellings, scabies, bayberry and other malignant sores, and dissipate heat and detoxify", saying that it is a good medicine for "curing wind and swelling, relieving dysentery and expelling corpses", and is also a "good medicine for reducing swelling and dispersing toxins and treating sores", and made the conclusion that honeysuckle, stems, leaves and flowers have the same function, and long-term use can make the body lighter and prolong life.

According to laboratory analysis, the main component of the stems, leaves and flowers of honeysuckle is chlorogenic acid, which has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects clinically. In addition, the flowers contain inositol, saponins, volatile oils, flavonoids, etc.; the leaves contain tannins, honeysuckle, strychnosin, syringin and honeysuckle yellow, etc.; the stems and stem bark contain luteolin, saponins and pure cellulose, etc.; the fruits contain reducing sugars. Modern medical research has proved that honeysuckle has a strong antibacterial effect on Streptococcus aureus, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pneumococcus, Bordetella pertussis, meningococcus, etc., and has a certain effect on the treatment of influenza and inflammation. Honeysuckle can be used alone or in combination with other medicines, or made into pills, soaked in wine, taken internally, or applied externally, all of which have good effects. Honeysuckle is increasingly widely used in medical preparations. According to a survey, one-third of traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions in the country use honeysuckle. The well-known "Yinqiao Jiedu Pills" and "Yinhuang Oral Liquid" are made with honeysuckle as the main raw material. Use honeysuckle as the main ingredient, and add forsythia, isatis indigotica, reed root, and licorice. Boil them in water and drink as tea to prevent Japanese encephalitis and meningitis.

Honeysuckle is cold in nature and sweet in taste. In traditional Chinese medicine, it belongs to the lung, heart, and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, cooling blood, and promoting blood circulation. In clinical application, honeysuckle is mainly used to treat wind-heat colds, sore throat, pneumonia, dysentery, carbuncles, erysipelas, cellulitis and other symptoms; honeysuckle vine has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, clearing phlegm and activating blood circulation, and is mainly used to treat joint pain, urticaria, mumps, bacterial dysentery, fever due to dampness and other symptoms. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a minister of the State of Chu, was exiled when he passed through Xupu, Hunan, where he contracted the plague and fell into a coma. The local mountain people admired Doctor Sanlu and, despite the dangers, picked honeysuckle from the mountains and added several other herbs to make a decoction for the patient to drink. Qu Yuan woke up in less than half an hour and was able to continue writing poems and composing essays. He finished all the chapters of "Nine Songs" and left the lines "After entering Xupu, I wandered around, not knowing where to go" in "Nine Songs. Crossing the River", which has been passed down through the ages.

What are the medicinal parts of honeysuckle? Looking at the introduction above, we have learned that the whole body of honeysuckle can be used as medicine, and it is very helpful for people's health. With the improvement of people's health awareness and the advancement of planting technology, many places have begun to plant honeysuckle. This has allowed more and more people to feel the benefits of honeysuckle for everyone, and we also hope that everyone's body is healthy every day.