How to use honeysuckle

April 18, 2023
Honeysuckle is cold in nature, sweet in taste, enters the lung, heart and stomach meridians, and has been known since ancient times as a good medicine to clear heat and detoxify the body. It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, dispersing wind-heat, and is mainly used for treating flatulence, fever, warm diseases, heat and canker sores and tumors. It is effective for dizziness, dry mouth, thirst, sweating, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, measles, pneumonia, encephalitis, acute mastitis, septicemia, appendicitis, skin infections, carbuncles and furuncles, dermatitis, mumps, purulent tonsillitis and other diseases. So what are the ways to use honeysuckle?

Medicinal use

It is used as a decoction of 6-15 g. It is good for dispersing wind-heat and clearing internal heat in raw form; fried charcoal is suitable for heat poisoning and blood dysentery; honeysuckle dew is mostly used for summer fever and irritability.

Silver Chrysanthemum Drink

Take 10 grams each of honeysuckle and white chrysanthemum, brew with boiling water or boiled, add sugar or salt and drink. It has the effect of clearing heat and quenching thirst, and is suitable for patients with headache caused by external wind-heat.

Silver Flower Mint Drink

Take 30 grams of honeysuckle, 10 grams of peppermint and 60 grams of fresh rutabaga. First, add 500 ml of water to honeysuckle and rutabaga and decoct for 15 minutes, then decoct mint for 3 minutes. Strain out the juice and add sugar to take warm. It has the effect of clearing heat and cooling the blood, detoxifying the toxin, generating fluid and quenching thirst, and is suitable for patients with wind-heat colds, the beginning of warm diseases, high fever and irritable thirst.

Yinhua Hawthorn Tea

Take 6 grams of honeysuckle, 50 grams of hawthorn slices, 100 grams of sugar, and the right amount of boiling water. First put the honeysuckle and hawthorn slices in a pot, fire for 5-6 minutes, and then add the appropriate amount of sugar, fire into candied sugar, the candied sugar to make water as tea. This tea has the effect of clearing heat, dispersing silt and eliminating food, suitable for patients with loss of appetite and indigestion due to external sensation.
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