What is Honeysuckle flower?

Contents

• Basic Botanical Data of Honeysuckle flower.
• Constituents and Phytochemicals:Honeysuckle flower.
• Effects and History of Honeysuckle flower.
• Honeysuckle flower:Indications,Combinations and Pharmacology.
• More Applications and function of Honeysuckle flower.
• Honeysuckle flower:Suggestions and Administration.
• Research Update:Honeysuckle flower.

More Applications and function of Honeysuckle flower.:

1. Affection by exopathogenic wind: heat or epidemic febrile diseases at the early stage, manifested as fever and slight aversion to wind and cold. It is often used with forsythia fruit and peppermint, as in Powder of Lonicera and Forsythia (Yin Qiao San).

 2. Invasion of the qi system by pathogenic heat marked by high fever, dire thirst and full pulse: It is often used with gypsum and anemarrhena rhizome.

 3. Sores, car- buncles, furuncles and swelling: It is a very important herb for external diseases, usually used in combination with dandelion and viola herb, as in Antiphlogistic Decoc- tion of Five Herbs. (Wuwei Xiaodu Yin). 4. Diarrhea and dysentery with puru- lent and bloody stool. It is often used with scutellaria root, coptis root and pulsatilla root, or used alone to prepare a concentrated decoc- tion for frequent drink.

 4. Honeysuckle is edible and medicinal: High in Calcium, Magnesium, and Potassium, the leaves can be parboiled and eaten as a vegetable. The edible buds and flowers, made into a syrup or puddings.

 5. Nutrition: The entire plant has been used as an alternative medicine for thousands of years in Asia. The active constituents include calcium, elaidic-acid, hcn, inositol, linoleic-acid, lonicerin, luteolin, magnesium, myristic-acid, potassium, tannin, and zink. Some of this plant's complex chemistry is discussed in the experimental trials listed below.
 

 6. Upper respiratory tract infections: Honeysuckle is particularly good for upper respiratory tract infections. The stems and flowers are used together in infusion or decoction.

 7. The stems: are used internally in the treatment of acute rheumatoid arthritis, mumps and hepatitis.

 8. Blood Pressure: Honeysuckle is alterative, antibacterial, antiinflammatory, antispasmodic, diuretic, febrifuge, and is also used to reduce blood pressure.

 9. Polyphenolic compounds:  isolated from Lonicera japonica inhibit human platelet activation and provide protection from cellular injury, and thus help maintain human vascular homeostasis.

 10. Experimentally:Blood cholesterol the flower extracts have been shown to lower blood cholesterol levels and are antibacterial, antiviral and tuberculostatic.

 11. Externally:Skin Benefit  the flowers are applied as a medicinal wash to skin inflammations, infectious rashes and sores.

 12. Leaves and flowers: are traditionally used to treat chicken pox.

 13. Medicinal virtues: The leaves are the only parts used and are put into gargarisms for sore throats. Some recoinmenda decoction for a cough and the phthisic and to open obstructions of the liver and spleen.

Cosmetic Uses of Honeysuckle

   Honeysuckle extract is a fragrant plant extract that can be a skin irritant, but may also have anti-irritant properties.Lonicera Caprifolium Flower Extract is a kind of Honeysuckle Extract derived from the flower bud of Lonicera Caprifolium,this kind of Honeysuckle Flower Extract help stimulates the removal of toxins and waste materials to promote vibrant skin, rich in ochnaflavones that provide antiviral actions.

   Lonicera Japonica Flower Extract is a kind of Honeysuckle Extract derived from the flower bud of Lonicera Japonica,this kind of Honeysuckle Flower Extract help stimulates the removal of toxins and waste materials to promote vibrant skin, rich in ochnaflavones that provide antiviral actions, anti-inflammatory and anti-fungal properties.

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♣ last edit date:17th,Dec.2010.