Summer is coming, under the baking of the hot summer, the human body will inevitably have some small problems such as sore throat, cough, red and swollen eyes.
Many people will choose to use "antibiotics" to solve the problem at this time. As everyone knows, this flower is the best phytotherapeutic!
Honeysuckle, everyone is very familiar with, in the treatment of colds, coughs, pharyngitis, you can often see it. Because of its initial opening color white, after one or two days it is yellow, a flower has both colors, so it is named "honeysuckle".
Honeysuckle is known as the "little fairy of the medicine shop" and is a world-renowned health care flower. Ancient medicine believes that honeysuckle is cold and sweet, which can not only relieve the wind and disperse the cold, but also clear heat and detoxify.
In ancient times, honeysuckle was also often used to treat surgical sores and other evidence, such as "Xianfang Life Drink", and honeysuckle was reused to clear heat and detoxify. In the Qing Dynasty, with the development of the Wen Disease School, a variety of important Wen Disease formulas such as Silver Warp Powder and Qingying Soup were mainly used as medicines of honeysuckle, and later widely used in internal diseases.
Now clinically for various fever-related diseases, such as body heat, rashes, spots, heat poison sores carbuncles, sore throat and other symptoms, honeysuckle has a significant effect.
Honeysuckle has a long history of medicinal use, as early as more than a thousand years ago, our ancestors began to use it to prevent and treat diseases, and it was listed as "shangpin" in the Wei and Jin Materia Medica works "Famous Doctors".
Honeysuckle, the detoxifying flower of summer!
Honeysuckle taste sweet, cold, return to the lungs, stomach meridians, has the effect of clearing heat, detoxification, anti-inflammation and swelling. And because of its aromatic smell, cold and hot without hurting the stomach, it is widely used clinically.
Spread the wind and heat
Honeysuckle is good at de-lung fire, suitable for wind fever cold, redness, swelling, heat pain, dizziness and headache, sweating and boredom and other symptoms.
At the beginning of the wind fever and cold, you can take 20g of honeysuckle decoction water or make tea every day, but continuous drinking should not exceed 1 week.
Antioxidant, blood vessel protection
Honeysuckle buds contain a large amount of chlorogenic acid, which can not only delay aging, antioxidants, but also reduce cholesterol attachment, protect blood vessels, and assist in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Anti-inflammatory and sterile
Modern pharmacological studies have proved that honeysuckle has a wide antibacterial spectrum, and has inhibitory effects on Streptococcus pneumoniae, Meningococcus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Bacillus pertussis, Diphtheria bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Bacillus dysentery, Bacillus typhoid and some skin fungi, and also has inhibitory effects on Leptospirus, influenza virus and herpes virus.
The magic of honeysuckle
stye
Stye, also known as blepharitis, commonly known as "needle eye", is an acute inflammation caused by invasion of eyelid glands such as staphylococcus.
Ingredients: Dandelion 30g, honeysuckle 15g (children, the infirm dosage is halved).
Directions: Add water and cook, the first decoction is taken internally, the second decoction is smoked, oral and 2 times a day. This formula is used for 1 to 3 days to have obvious anti-inflammatory and anti-swelling effects.
Chronic pharyngitis
Ingredients: Take 5 fresh figs (sliced), 12 grams of wheat dong, 20 grams of honeysuckle (1 day amount).
Directions: Soak the offspring in boiling water for half an hour and drink for 5 to 7 days.
Acute tonsillitis
Most acute inflammation of the tonsils is caused by the accumulation of fire poison and scorching. Therefore, Chinese medicine generally adopts the treatment method of clearing heat and detoxification.
Ingredients: Honeysuckle 6 g, mint 3 g.
Directions: Put the herbs in a cup, pour in the right amount of boiling water, and add 1 piece of rock sugar. May also be taken by children.
Dust weather
In the northern region, there are more sand and dust weather in spring, and a large number of particles are suspended in the sand and dust, and microbes such as bacterial viruses and mycoplasma are frequently active and spread, which is easy to induce respiratory diseases.
Ingredients: 10 g tangerine peel, 3 chrysanthemums, 0.5 g honeysuckle, 0.5 g mint, rock sugar to taste.
Directions: Mix all the ingredients and brew in boiling water for 5 minutes instead of tea. After taking, continue to add blisters and take 2 to 3 times.
Pruritus of the skin
More common in summer and autumn, the skin around the body itching, hot, itchy, cold itching stop, skin itching bright red, hot touch, scratching out the blood after itching stop, upset thirst, eat spicy food and itching intensified, tongue red moss thin white, pulse string number.
Ingredients: Honeysuckle 12 g, Tribulus terrestris 12 g, Honey 10 g.
Directions: Add honeysuckle and tribulus terrestris into a casserole dish with an appropriate amount of water, steam 2 times, combine the steaming liquid, remove the residue, and add honey.
Seven cases, away from honeysuckle
Honeysuckle is cold, if not symptomatic, should be used with caution.
Do not overdose
Honeysuckle medicinal use does not exceed 15 grams at a time, tea substitutes do not exceed 5 grams in a single use, and boiled porridge (soup) does not exceed 40 grams in a single use.
It is not contraindicated during menstruation
Honeysuckle is cold, it is best not to take it during menstruation to avoid adverse effects on the body.
People with spleen and stomach deficiency should be cautious when taking it
Honeysuckle is a cold product, for the cold constitution or weak and sick people, but will increase the spleen and stomach need to bear the burden, which is very detrimental to health.
Honeysuckle soaked water do not take overnight
Honeysuckle can be brewed two or three times in water, and it is best not to take it overnight to avoid affecting health due to deterioration.
Honeysuckle soaked in water should not be drunk cold
Because the double cold can easily lead to diarrhea in the body. After brewing in boiling water, take it while hot to better exert the medicinal effect and nutritional value of honeysuckle.
Honeysuckle soaked water should not be drunk every day
Only when your body has a "fire" and other situations should you choose to take honeysuckle, and it is best not to drink it every day, otherwise the damage to the spleen and stomach is relatively large.
Patients with hepatitis B should not take it for a long time
Patients with hepatitis B should not drink water with honeysuckle for a long time, otherwise it is easy to cause gastrointestinal discomfort in the body, such as diarrhea, bowel sounds or poor stomach intake.
Honeysuckle with a little trick
Prevention of all diseases is the first, whether it is to clear the heat and dispel the heat, or to prevent the disease and strengthen the body, the method is also simple, directly brewed with boiling water into "honeysuckle tea".
There is also a small partner like the "honeysuckle dew", many pharmacies have sold finished products, but its practice is not difficult, you can also DIY at home:
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Preparation Method:
Take 50g of honeysuckle, add 1000~1500ml of water, and soak together for 30 minutes. Put the water together in the pot, simmer for 20 to 30 minutes, strain out the soup, and add rock sugar. Add water to fry, you can continue to carry out 2 to 3 times, and finally put out the medicinal juice several times and let it cool.
function
This homemade "honeysuckle dew" is sweet and thirst-quenching and can be used as a health drink for summer regulars.
These considerations should be kept in mind
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Honeysuckle can be brewed two or three times, and should not be drunk overnight.
02
People with weak spleen and stomach, weak qi, and women, pregnant women, and young children who are in menstruation should not drink.
03
The commonly used proprietary Chinese medicines "Silver Warp Detoxification Pills", "Silver Warp Powder", "Gardenia Golden Flower Pills" are all based on honeysuckle as the main medicine, if you are already taking these drugs, do not repeatedly drink or eat honeysuckle preparations.
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Honeysuckle is not suitable for long-term use, and it is only suitable for making tea or medicinal food for health care in late spring and summer, and the weather will be suspended when the weather will be cold.
note
Every year from April to June, there are large areas of wild honeysuckle blooming on the mountain, but when you pick it, be careful to kiss it with a hook that looks exactly like it!
Hooks and snouts are poisonous throughout the plant, the main ingredient is leptosine, of which the young leaves are the most toxic, and adults can be fatal when swallowing a few tablets.
According to legend, Shennong was killed by eating the hook kiss and the liver and intestines were cut off and poisoned, so the hook kiss was also called "broken intestinal grass".
We can distinguish from the pattern and color:
●Broken intestinal grass: the corolla is yellow, the flower shape is funnel-shaped, it is a closed-petal flower, 1 to 1.6 cm long;
●Honeysuckle: The corolla is lip-shaped, the flowers are trumpet-shaped, and they are off-petal flowers, and the flower tube is slender.