honeysuckle
Honeysuckle, also known as honeysuckle (scientific name: Lonicera japonica). The name "Honeysuckle" comes from "Compendium of Materia Medica". Because the honeysuckle flower is white at first, and then turns yellow, it is named honeysuckle. The medicinal material honeysuckle is the dried flower buds or flowers of the same genus Lonicera Lonicera and the same genus. Honeysuckle, blooming in March, five out, slightly fragrant, reddish stalks, white at the beginning of flowering, yellow after one or two days, hence the name honeysuckle. And because one stalk and two flowers, the two stamens protrude out, they are in pairs, inseparable, like male and female accompanying each other, and like mandarin ducks dancing in pairs, so it is called mandarin duck vine. The most distinctive feature of this species is the large leaf-like bracts. It looks a bit like Lonicera chinensis in appearance, but the bracts of that species are narrow rather than leaf-shaped, the calyx tube is densely pubescent, and the branchlets are densely curly pubescent, which is obviously different from this species. The morphological variation of this species is very large, regardless of the hairy indument of the branches and leaves, the shape and size of the leaf, the length of the corolla, the length ratio of the hairy indument and the lip to the tube, etc., there are great changes. However, all these changes seem to be more related to the ecological environment, and do not show a correlation with geographical distribution. Honeysuckle has been known as a good medicine for clearing away heat and detoxification since ancient times. It is sweet and cold in nature and fragrant, sweet and cold in clearing heat without hurting the stomach, and the fragrance is thorough and can dispel evil. Honeysuckle can not only disperse wind-heat, but also clear blood toxin. It is used for various febrile diseases, such as body heat, rash, spots, heat-toxin sores, sore throat, etc., and the effect is remarkable.
alias
Gold and silver vines, silver vines, two-color flower vines, two treasure vines, right-turning vines, sub-wind vines, mandarin duck vines, and two flowers
Indications
Clear heat and detoxify, evacuate wind-heat, penetrate camp and turn qi, cool blood and stop dysentery
Meridian distribution of sexual taste
Cold in nature, sweet in taste, enters the lung, heart, and stomach meridians
Selected Prescriptions
① Prevention of JE and ECM: honeysuckle and forsythia. Daqing root, reed root, and licorice each 15g. Decoction in water instead of tea, one dose per day for three to five days.
②Treat the wind and heat of the lunar calendar, the beginning of winter temperature, but the heat is not aversion to cold and thirsty: 50g forsythia, 50g silver flower, 30g bitter platycodon, 30g mint, 20g bamboo leaves, 25g raw licorice, nepeta ear 20g, 25g light tempeh, 30g burdock. The upper pestle is loose, 30g per serving, decocted with fresh reed root soup.
③Treatment of dysentery: honeysuckle (into a copper pot, baked and preserved) 25g. Red dysentery is taken with white honey water, and white dysentery is taken with granulated sugar water.
④Treatment of hot drench: 50g each of honeysuckle, sea vine, coriander, golden cherry root, and imperina root. Decoction in water, one dose per day, five to seven days as a course of treatment.
⑤ For biliary tract infection and wound infection: 50g of honeysuckle, 25g each of forsythia, daqinggen, scutellaria baicalensis and wild chrysanthemum. Decoction in water, one dose per day.
⑥Treatment of sores and sores with severe pain and purple-black discoloration: 100g of honeysuckle with branches and leaves (file), 200g of Astragalus membranaceus, and 50g of licorice. Cut it finely, add one liter of wine, put it in a pot, close the mouth, boil it in heavy soup for three or two hours, take it out, remove the dregs, and take it immediately.
⑦ Treat all swollen toxins, regardless of whether they have been ulcerated or not, or fever at the beginning, with boils and diarrhea, sore throat and milk moth: Half a bowl of honeysuckle (including stems and leaves) natural juice, decoct eight minutes and take it, and apply it with dregs , Detoxification Tori, dispersing Qi and blood, its merits are unique.
⑧Treatment of carbuncle and gangrene at the beginning of the back: 250g honeysuckle, decoct in ten bowls of water to two bowls, add 100g of angelica, decoct to one bowl, and take it at once.
⑨ Treat all internal and external carbuncles: honeysuckle 200g, licorice 150g. Decoction with water, decoction with wine for those who can drink.
⑩Treatment of carbuncle in the large intestine, the hands cannot be pressed, and the right foot is bent but not stretched: 150g honeysuckle, 100g angelica, 50g Burnet, 50g Radix Radix Scrophulariae, 50g Radix Scrophulariae, 15g raw licorice, 25g barley, 10g skullcap. Decoction in water.
Therapeutic practice
Honeysuckle Casserole Lean Pork
Ingredients: lean meat (300g), Tianshan snow lotus (appropriate amount), honeysuckle (8g), scallops (15g), yam (15g), salt (appropriate amount), chicken essence (appropriate amount)
Method: 1. Wash lean meat and cut into pieces; wash Tianshan snow lotus, honeysuckle and scallops; wash yam, peel and cut into pieces.
2. Put the lean meat into boiling water to pass through the water, take it out and wash it. 3 Put the lean meat, Tianshan snow lotus, honeysuckle, scallops, and yam into the pot, add water and simmer for 2 hours on low heat, then add salt and chicken essence.
3 Bring to a boil over high heat, add rice wine, green onions, garlic and other seasonings and eat.
Medicinal value: This soup has the effects of clearing heat and relieving heat, nourishing qi and nourishing yin, nourishing yin and kidney, strengthening spleen and stomach.
Honeysuckle Steamed Fish
Main ingredients: 750 grams of grass carp, 50 grams of honeysuckle, 100 grams of glutinous rice flour, 50 grams of sesame oil, 25 grams of cooking wine, 15 grams of soy sauce, 2 grams of pepper, 3 grams of salt, and 1 gram of monosodium glutamate.
Method: Step 1: Wash the honeysuckle, soak it in clean water, and drain;
Step 2: Add a small amount of water to wet the glutinous rice flour;
Step 3: Eviscerate the grass carp, wash and drain. Cut the fish into pieces, add sesame oil, cooking wine, soy sauce, pepper, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, etc., mix well, and set aside;
Step 4: Use a knife to slit the fish block, insert honeysuckle in the slit, spread a little rice flour, and put it into a steaming bowl;
Step 5: Mix the remaining honeysuckle, wet rice noodles and the juice of the fish cubes, sprinkle them on the fish cubes, and steam them in the basket.
Medicinal value: It has the effects of invigorating the spleen and appetizing, tonifying deficiency and nourishing the body, and treating headaches.
Mung bean honeysuckle porridge
Main ingredients: 150 grams of rice, 50 grams each of honeysuckle and mung beans, appropriate amount of sugar.
Method: 1. Wash the rice with clean water; soak the honeysuckle with warm water; soak the mung beans thoroughly with warm water.
2. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot and boil, add rice and mung beans, and use a low heat to cook until the rice blooms.
3. Then add honeysuckle, add sugar, and cook for 15 minutes on low heat.
Medicinal value: Clear away heat and detoxify, relieve the hot feeling in early summer.
