Honeysuckle
Flower (jin yin hua)
Flos
Lonicerae
Properties:
Sweet in flavour, cold in nature, it acts on the lung,
heat and stomach channels. The sweet and cold properties
clear away heat and the fragrance expels heat outward. It
is good at clearing away the heart and stomachfire for
detoxication and expelling the wind-heat in the lung
channel for diaphoresis. It is often used to treat the
syndromes of suppurative infections due to noxious heat,
excessive heat in the qi division, invasion of the ying
division by warm and heat pathogens and the affection by
exopathogenic wind-heat.
Effects:
Clearing away heat, detoxicating and expelling wind-heat.
Indications:
1.
For suppurative infections on body surface, acute
mastitis, furunculosis, it is often used in combination
with the heat-clearing and detoxicating drugs, as
forsythia fruit, dandelion herb and wild chrysanthmum
flower. In case of acute appendicitis and abdominal pain,
it is used in combination with rhubarb, peony bark and
peach kernel to clear bowels, detoxicate, and drain pus.
2.
For exopathogenic and cold affection at the early stage of
the epidemic febrile diseases
with the pathogenic factors still lingering in the
wei division, it is used in combination with the drugs for
expelling wind-heat, such as forsythia fruit and pepper
mint, known as Yin Qiao San (Powder of Lonicera and
Forsythia). The herb can also be indicated for epidemic
febrile diseases with the exopathogens in the qi and blood
divisions if they are used in combination with the
heat-clearing and fire-purging or heat-clearing and
blood-cooling drugs.
In
addition, it can treat the syndromes of restlessness and
thirst due to the summer heat because it has the functions
of clearing away and relieving the summer heat.
Dosage
and Administration: 10-15g.
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