In spring, everything in nature recovers, and yang qi rises, which easily disturbs the internal heat accumulated in the liver, gallbladder, and stomach. Fire symptoms, Spring dryness is an internal heat syndrome that occurs after the body’s yin and yang imbalance. Moreover, the climate is dry in spring, the weather is fickle, and when the human body is poorly adapted to the climate, diseases are also prone to occur, and it is difficult to maintain a balance and stability of metabolism in the body, which can easily lead to physiological dysfunction and anger symptoms, and honeysuckle is at this time. of heat-clearing products.
Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle, blooms from March to April every year until summer, slightly fragrant , the pedicle is red, the color of the flower is white at the beginning, and the color is yellow after one or two days, hence the name honeysuckle. And because one pedicle and two flowers, the two stamens are exposed, they are in pairs, inseparable, like male and female companions, and like mandarin ducks dancing in pairs, so it is called mandarin duck vine.
Honeysuckle has another common name, honeysuckle. In the winter, the old leaves wither, and the leaf axils cluster with new leaves, which do not wither through the winter, so it is called “Honeysuckle”. ForbearanceWinter was first recorded in the medical classic “Famous Doctors” in the late Han Dynasty. According to legend, the name of honeysuckle was named by Sun Simiao, the king of medicine.
Efficacy of honeysuckle
Honeysuckle is famous for its medicinal properties—the most Simple and primitive plant antibiotics. It is sweet, cold in nature, and enters the lung and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxification, dredging wind and dredging collaterals. It is known as the king of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and removing blood stasis, and curing sores. “Shen Nong’s Materia Medica” states: “Honeysuckle flower is cold in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and removing stasis. It is mainly used for exogenous wind-heat, early onset of plague, sores and boils, redness, swelling, heat and pain, pus and blood in stool. “Wait.
1. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory
Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory is one of the important effects of honeysuckle tea, which is the Tea contains a variety of natural antibacterial ingredients, which can quickly eliminate bacteria and viruses in the human body and prevent bacteria from multiplying and regenerating in the human body. disease occurs.
2. Clearing away heat and detoxifying to prevent anger
Honeysuckle tea is a kind of health-care tea with cold and cool properties. People usually drink it after drinking it. It can clear heat and detoxify, and has a certain preventive and relieving effect on people’s anger, sore throat, sore mouth and other adverse symptoms caused by excessive heat toxin in the body. In addition, when people have oral ulcers in life, use honeysuckle tea. Rinsing your mouth with water can also make ulcer symptoms get better quickly.
3. Anti-acne and beauty
The ancients pushed honeysuckle as the essential medicine for the treatment of heat and sore. “Compendium of Materia Medica·Volume II” pointed out that the characteristics of honeysuckle for detoxification and treatment of sores are that “it is a divine product for disinfection. It will disperse if it is not poisoned, and it will disappear if it has become poisoned.” Usually people drink it after brewing. Honeysuckle tea can absorb rich nutrients, it can nourish the skin, lighten pigmentation, and make people’s skin white, tender and smooth. In addition, the anti-inflammatory and bactericidal ingredients contained in honeysuckle tea can also eliminate bacteria deep in the skin and prevent Pimples and acne breakouts.
4. Enhance immunity
Honeysuckle can promote the phagocytic ability of leukocytes and enhance immunity. The biological activity of chlorogenic acid contained in honeysuckle can promote the metabolism of the body after entering the body, regulate the function of the human body and help improve the immunity of the human body.
Eating taboo
Honeysuckle is cold in nature, not suitable for long-term drinking, only suitable for hot The effect is better when it is certified, but drinking too much will be counterproductive. It should be reminded that people with deficient constitution and menstrual period should not drink it, otherwise, adverse reactions may occur.
In addition, excessive consumption of honeysuckle dew or people with deficiency-cold constitution will have side effects. Long-term use can easily lead to deficiency of the spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, and even abdominal pain and diarrhea. Therefore, under normal conditions of taking, it is advisable for adults to take less than 400 ml a day, children to take no more than 180 ml a day, and it should not be taken for more than a week. In addition, honeysuckle can be brewed 2 to 3 times, and it is not suitable to drink after overnight. Also, honeysuckle tea should not be drunk cold, because this can easily lead to diarrhea in the body.
1. Shuanghua tea
Materials: Honeysuckle 10 grams, 10 grams of chrysanthemum.
Practice: Boil water to brew tea instead.
Efficacy: Remove wind and relieve external appearance, clear heat and detoxify. Exogenous wind-heat sees aversion to cold, fever, headache, discomfort, sore throat, etc. It has a good effect on heat syndromes such as wind-heat and common cold.
2. Silver Flower Lotus Seed Soup
Materials: 30 grams of honeysuckle, 15 grams of peony bark, 30 grams of lotus seeds, appropriate amount of sugar.
Practice: The first 2 flavors are boiled in water, remove the residue and extract the juice, add the lotus seeds and cook until cooked, add an appropriate amount of sugar and mix well.
Efficacy: High fever and chills, lower abdominal pain, refusal to press, excessive vaginal discharge, yellow pus-like color, thick and foul smelling, dry mouth and bitter taste, nausea and anorexia, yellow urine Short, dry stool embolism.
3. Silver Flower Hawthorn Tea
Material: Honeysuckle 6 grams, 50 grams of hawthorn slices, 100 grams of sugar, and appropriate amount of boiling water.
Methods:Put honeysuckle and hawthorn slices in a pot first, stir fry for 5-6 minutes, add an appropriate amount of sugar, stir fry them into candied fruit, and soak in this candy cane Drink water as tea.
Efficacy: This tea has the functions of clearing heat, dispelling stasis, and digestion, suitable for patients with loss of appetite and indigestion caused by external factors.
Finally, it should be noted that honeysuckle belongs to traditional Chinese medicine, so there will be relative side effects. Take it under the guidance, so as not to backfire and cause harm to the body.