According to the Pharmacopoeia

This product is the dried flower buds or flowers with the first bloom of Lonicera japonica Thunb. It is harvested in early summer before the flowers open and dried.

Characteristics] The product is rod-shaped, thick on the bottom, slightly curved, 2-3cm long, the upper diameter of about 3mm, the lower diameter of about 1.5mm, the surface of yellow-white or green-white (stored for a long time, the color gradually darker), densely pubescent. Occasional leafy bracts. Calyx green, apex 5-lobed, lobes hairy, ca. 2 mm. open corolla tube, apex 2-lipped; stamens 5, attached to tube wall, yellow; pistil 1, ovary glabrous. Gas fragrance, taste light, slightly bitter.

Sweet, cold. Attributed to the lung, heart and stomach meridians.

Functions and Indications] Clearing heat and removing toxins, evacuating wind-heat. It is used for carbuncle, furuncle, throat paralysis, dengtoxin, fever and blood dysentery, wind-heat cold, and fever of warm disease.

Usage and dosage] 6~15g.

Storage: In a cool, dry place, moisture-proof, moth-proof.

Composition and application of honeysuckle

The functional components of honeysuckle are mainly flavonoids, organic acids, volatile oils, triterpenoid saponins and so on.

Among them, organic acids are the material basis of honeysuckle to clear heat and detoxification, and more than 40 kinds of them have been isolated and identified, and with the development of separation technology and precision equipment, more organic acids of honeysuckle have been found one after another.

With the development of isolation technology and precision equipment, more organic acid-like active substances of honeysuckle have been discovered. The combined effect of various functional components of honeysuckle has given honeysuckle many pharmacological activities, such as antibacterial and antiviral, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic, hepatoprotective, hepatolytic and choleretic, immune-enhancing and antitumor, and lipid-lowering.

The anti-influenza virus pharmacological effects of honeysuckle and its mechanism are mainly for the inhibition of viral proliferation, the protection of lung injury, and the regulation of body immune function. The active ingredients in honeysuckle mainly play an antiviral role by inhibiting viral activity, reducing the release of inflammatory factors, and promoting the proliferation of lymphocytes in the body.

Applications of Honeysuckle

Application of honeysuckle in food industry

The application of honeysuckle in the food industry is mainly reflected in the development of a large number of beverages, candies, wines, yogurts and other health foods containing functional ingredients of honeysuckle.

Honeysuckle beverages have the effects of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, lowering fire and improving eyesight, generating body fluid and protecting the liver, lowering fat and sugar, nourishing the blood and calming the nerves, and improving immunity due to the presence of functional ingredients. Such as Wanglaoji, and its Zheng, honeysuckle bitter melon drink, honeysuckle Luo Han Guo drink, ginkgo biloba honeysuckle health drinks, prickly pear honeysuckle instant tea Jane, honeysuckle mung bean juice composite drinks, fish and honeysuckle composite health herbal tea drinks, cassia berries goji berry honeysuckle functional composite drinks.

Add appropriate amount of lotus leaf antibacterial active substances and honeysuckle heat detoxification efficacy of ingredients into the chewing gum ingredients, the development of health care chewing gum.

With mint and honeysuckle as the main raw materials, fermentation production of health yogurt with unique flavor of mint and honeysuckle. In the 3:1 sour horn, honeysuckle based on the main material, add 18% sucrose, 1% maltose, 0.9% agar, 0.1% pectin, 0.1% carrageenan, 0.3% citric acid and other auxiliary materials, such as 105 ℃ simmering for 15 minutes to make honeysuckle sour horn fruitcake, the cake body is semi-transparent, deep yellowish-brown, soft and elastic, non-sticky teeth, sweet and sour, with a strong flavor of honeysuckle.

Using rice and honeysuckle as the main raw materials, fermentation production of yellow wine pulp, blending low health care honeysuckle yellow wine. By changing the ratio of yellow wine, honeysuckle juice, sucrose, citric acid and other substances to improve the color, taste, aroma and style of the product.

Application of honeysuckle in medicine

Honeysuckle is widely used in the field of medicine, with a variety of types and dosage forms, such as oral liquid, injection, granules, tablets, creams, capsules, etc. It is used to treat respiratory tract infections, pharyngolaryngitis, tonsillitis, mastitis, mouth ulcers, colds and bronchitis and other diseases. Drugs with honeysuckle extract as the main raw material include honeysuckle tablets, compound honeysuckle herbal gargle, yinqiao detoxification tablets, honeysuckle injection, yinhuang injection, shuanghuang injection, honeysuckle infusion, yinhuang granules, shuanghuanglian oral solution, golden voice open sound pills, and honeysuckle dew, etc.; and drugs with honeysuckle as the auxiliary ingredient include qingkailing, and pediatric clearing heat ning granules.