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When it comes to Honeysuckle (Jin Yin Hua), everyone is familiar with it. We often drink honeysuckle tea or honeysuckle syrup in our daily lives, but do we really understand honeysuckle? In today’s Daily Herb, TCM Sister introduces this medicinal material to everyone~
Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle, also known as Rén Dōng (学名：Lonicera japonica). The name “Honeysuckle” comes from the Compendium of Materia Medica (本草纲目), as the flowers of honeysuckle initially bloom white and later turn yellow, hence the name. The medicinal material honeysuckle consists of the dried flower buds or freshly opened flowers of the honeysuckle plant from the Caprifoliaceae family.
Honeysuckle has been praised since ancient times as an excellent medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying. It is sweet and cold in nature, aromatic, and clears heat without harming the stomach, while its fragrance can dispel evil. Honeysuckle can disperse wind-heat and effectively clear blood toxins, making it useful for various febrile diseases such as fever, rashes, spots, heat toxins, and sore throat.
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Honeysuckle is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine with a long history, first recorded in the Record of Famous Physicians (名医别录) as a superior product. The name “Honeysuckle” first appeared in Li Shizhen’s Compendium of Materia Medica, mentioned under the “Rén Dōng” section. Due to its long-standing use in modern literature, it is now recognized as the correct name for this medicinal material and is included in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. Additionally, it is also known by other names such as “Yin Hua”, “Shuang Hua”, “Er Hua”, “Er Bao Hua”, and “Shuang Bao Hua”.
Rén Dōng is cold in nature, sweet in taste, and enters the lung, heart, and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, and tonifying to treat wind. It is primarily used for symptoms such as abdominal distension, febrile diseases, heat toxin sores, and tumors. It has certain efficacy for conditions like dizziness, dry mouth, excessive sweating, intestinal inflammation, bacterial dysentery, measles, pneumonia, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, acute mastitis, sepsis, appendicitis, skin infections, carbuncles, erysipelas, mumps, and purulent tonsillitis.
Honeysuckle
Available honeysuckle preparations include “Yin Qiao Jie Du Pian”, “Yin Qiao Pian”, and “Yin Huang Injection”. “Honeysuckle syrup” is an aromatic volatile oil and water-soluble extract obtained from honeysuckle through distillation, which is an excellent product for clearing heat and detoxifying, treating conditions like infantile fetal toxins, sores, and fever-induced thirst. In summer, it can be used as a tea substitute to treat warm heat rashes and bloody dysentery. The stems and vines, known as “Rén Dōng Téng”, are also used medicinally. The effective components of honeysuckle are chlorogenic acid and isochlorogenic acid, which are secondary metabolites produced during the plant’s metabolic processes. Their content not only depends on the plant species but can also be significantly influenced by ecological and geographical conditions, as well as phenological periods.
Honeysuckle tea has unique weight loss functions and can inhibit and kill pathogenic bacteria in the throat, providing anti-infection benefits for the elderly and children. Regular consumption of honeysuckle infusion or decoction is beneficial for treating and recovering from conditions such as wind-heat eye redness, sore throat, obesity, liver heat syndrome, and liver heat type hypertension.
Editor: Yin Dongwei
Reviewer: Yan Yixi
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