The difference between honeysuckle and honeysuckle

What is the difference between honeysuckle and honeysuckle? Many people don’t know much about this. Their names are very similar, but many people are not clear about how to choose the best one. They have some differences in many aspects, so when choosing them, some methods are needed so that they can be distinguished and used with confidence.

What are the differences between honeysuckle and golden honeysuckle? The following is a detailed introduction so that you can distinguish them easily and make the right choice when using them. It will be of great help to you in all aspects.

The difference between honeysuckle and honeysuckle :

Different sources

Honeysuckle is the dried buds or just opened flowers of the honeysuckle plant of the Caprifoliaceae family. Honeysuckle is the dried buds or just-opened flowers of the Caprifoliaceae plants, such as Honeysuckle of the gray felt hair, Honeysuckle of the red gland or Honeysuckle of the south China.

Different properties

Honeysuckle is rod-shaped, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, slightly curved, 2 to 3 cm long, 3 mm in diameter at the top and 1.5 mm in diameter at the bottom. The surface is yellowish-white or greenish-white and densely covered with short soft hairs. Occasionally, leaf-like bracts are seen. The calyx is green, 5-lobed at the tip, with hairy lobes about 2 mm long. The open corolla is tubular, with two lips at the tip, and 5 stamens attached to the tube wall, which are yellow. There is 1 pistil, the ovary is glabrous, with a fresh fragrance and a light and slightly bitter taste.

Gray felt honeysuckle is stick-shaped and curved, 3 to 4.5 cm long, 2 mm in diameter at the top and 1 mm in diameter at the bottom, with a green-brown to yellow-white surface. The peduncles are clustered. The lobes of the corolla when open are less than half of the total length, slightly hard in texture, slightly elastic when pinched, with a light fragrance and a slightly bitter-sweet taste.

Red gland honeysuckle is 2.5 to 4.5 cm long and 0.8 to 2 mm in diameter. The surface is yellowish white to yellowish brown, glabrous or sparsely hairy, and the calyx tube is glabrous.

The Chinese honeysuckle is 1.6 to 3.5 cm long and 0.5 to 2 mm in diameter. The calyx tube and corolla are densely covered with grayish white hairs, and the ovary is hairy.

Different ingredients and contents

Honeysuckle contains chlorogenic acid. The 2005 edition of the "Pharmacopoeia" stipulates: Chlorogenic acid is determined by high performance liquid chromatography: This product, calculated on the basis of the dry product, contains not less than 1.5% chlorogenic acid. Honeysuckle contains luteolin. The 2005 edition of the "Pharmacopoeia" stipulates: Determination of luteolin by high performance liquid chromatography: This product, calculated on the dry basis, contains not less than 0.10% luteolin.

The 2005 edition of the Pharmacopoeia stipulates that the chlorogenic acid content of Honeysuckle is determined by high performance liquid chromatography: This product, calculated on the basis of the dry product, contains not less than 1.5% chlorogenic acid.

There are great differences between honeysuckle and mountain honeysuckle in terms of the above-mentioned sources, properties, ingredients, etc., and care should be taken to distinguish them when using them.

Through the above introduction, we have some understanding of the difference between honeysuckle and golden honeysuckle. When choosing them, there are also some differences in their usage methods. Therefore, after purchasing them, you cannot choose the same usage method. This will cause great harm to human health, which is also something you need to understand.