There is a kind of flower, which blooms in the summer, the first bloom is like silver, the long time is like gold, there are yellow and white colors, do you know what kind of flower?
It is estimated that many people understand after reading the description, is this not honeysuckle?
That's right, today we will talk about the first flower of the summer~
Honeysuckle: the "antibiotic" in Chinese medicine
Honeysuckle is a flower bud of honeysuckle, a honeysuckle family, and has many aliases, such as honeysuckle, double flower, golden vine flower and so on.
It is not only a unique flower color, a clear taste, but also a good medicine for detoxification and detoxification. Usually, honeysuckle is picked in the summer, preferably if the flowers are not open and the color is yellow and white.
Chinese medicine believes that honeysuckle is cold, sweet, into the lungs, heart, stomach meridians, has the effect of evacuating wind and heat, clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood and stopping diarrhea, eliminating carbuncle swelling, and replenishing deficiency.
In particular, honeysuckle has a strong power to eliminate carbuncles and swelling, and is an essential medicine for the treatment of all carbuncles and boils.
At the same time, it can also treat a variety of thermal diseases, clinically can be used to treat colds, coughs, sore throat, red eyes, pulmonary carbuncles, cradle carbuncles, wet sores and so on.
Since ancient times, successive medical books and pharmacopoeias have also praised honeysuckle.
The "Materia Medica" states that it is "good at chemical poisoning, so it cures carbuncle, swelling, sores, bayberry, rheumatism and other poisons, and is sincerely a medicine." Those who have not yet become poison can disperse, and those who have become poisonous can collapse."
The "Essentials of Surgery" states that "the treatment of carbuncles and backs, no matter where it is, has miraculous effects".
The True Biography of Medicine says: "The golden flower walks the blood points, the silver flower walks the qi points, and the medicine that reconciles the qi and blood is also, and the qi and blood are adjusted through the meridians, why is it inappropriate?" ”
"Yunnan Materia Medica" said: "(Gold) honeysuckle clears heat, relieves sores, carbuncles, nameless swelling, erysipelas." ”
The Pharmacopoeia (2015 edition) contains its "sweet, cold; return to the lungs, heart, stomach meridians", can "clear heat and detoxification, evacuate wind and heat", often "used for carbuncle boils, laryngeal paralysis, erysipelas, hot poison blood".
In Traditional Chinese medicine, prescriptions, proprietary medicines, and medicinal diets containing honeysuckle are also quite common, so it also enjoys the reputation of "little fairy of the medicine shop".
Modern pharmacological studies have shown that honeysuckle has a broad-spectrum antibacterial effect, and has a strong bacteriostatic effect on streptococcus, staphylococcus, streptococcus pneumoniae, bacillus pertussis, meningococcus, etc.
At the same time, it also has antiviral effects, which have a certain effect on the prevention of influenza, measles, mumps and the treatment of bacterial dysentery and tonsillitis.
Therefore, honeysuckle is known as "antibiotic in Chinese medicine" and "preventive injection in Chinese medicine".
In addition, honeysuckle also has the effect of enhancing immunity, liver protection, anti-inflammatory, etc., and its clinical use is very extensive.
What is more valuable is that honeysuckle can not only be used medicinally, but also especially suitable for consumption, external application, soaking water and gargling (can improve bad breath caused by chronic oral inflammation).
Old rules, the following to recommend some honeysuckle meals ~
Honeysuckle is eaten like this, and the whole family benefits
Honeysuckle is eaten in meals, and there are usually ways to cook porridge, make tea, and cook soup.
For example, Cantonese people are accustomed to using honeysuckle to make tea to drink, there are single-bubble honeysuckle, and there are also honeysuckle with chrysanthemums, locust flowers, kapok and plumeria to brew into a widely spread five-flower tea.
Summer is hot, you can also try -
Honeysuckle mung bean porridge
Ingredients: honeysuckle 30 g, licorice 12 g, mung bean 100 g.
Method: Honeysuckle, licorice to wash and spare, mung beans washed and soaked in water for later; add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, add honeysuckle and licorice (wrapped in cotton yarn medicine bags), boil on high heat, simmer for 3 to 5 minutes on medium-low heat; put the washed mung beans into the soup, boil again on high heat, turn to medium heat and cook until the mung beans blossom.
Note: May be flavored with sugar or salt as individual taste.
Nutritional reviews: This porridge is fragrant and luscious, has the effect of clearing heat and dispelling poison, cooling blood and cooling the heat.
Honeysuckle honey juice
Ingredients: 15 g honeysuckle, 30 g honey.
Directions: Wash the honeysuckle in a pot, add water, bring to a boil over high heat and reduce the heat to fry for 40 minutes; remove the residue and let cool, add honey and stir to drink evenly.
Nutritional reviews: Honey can be combined with stomach and intestines, and honeysuckle, which can alleviate constipation caused by hot knots to a certain extent.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone that although honeysuckle is good, it is cold in medicinal properties and can be eaten by not everyone.
Usually, people with spleen and stomach deficiency (such as people who often have abdominal pain, diarrhea, cold abdomen, cold hands and feet), diarrhea with less food and stool, and people with qi deficiency and pus are contraindicated. It should also not be taken during menstruation in women.