Lonicera Flos, Honeysuckle flower, Jin Yin Hua ้้ถ่ฑ
Honeysuckle flower
Jin Yin Hua (TCM)
Lonicera japonica
Botanical Register, 1815
Lonicera japonica
Kerner, Hortus Sempervirens, vol. 60: 1825
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Botanical name:
Lonicera japonica
Parts used:
Flower
The leaf has the same functions, but is weaker, so are only used when the flower is unavailable.
Temperature & Taste:
Cold, dry. Sweet
Classification:
Uses:
1. Clears Heat and Toxin:
-Sores, Boils, Toxic Swellings; it drains pus and promotes healing
-it can disperse Sores before pus has formed and drain pus once formed
-Red, Sore, Swollen or Inflamed Eyes and Throat
-Swellings of the Breast; Abscesses of the Lung or Intestine
2. Clears Wind-Heat, Promotes Sweat:
-acute Wind-Heat cold and flu with Fever, Chills and Fever, Sore Throat, Headache
-used for acute ‘Summer-heat’; Wind-Heat Cold during Summer
3. Clears Damp-Heat from the Lower Abdomen:
-Damp-Heat Diarrhea or Dysentery
-Painful and Dribbling Urine
4. Nourishes Blood, Relieves Thirst:
-while this effect is mild, it is useful to acknowledge as it is indicated in Heat-Toxic with deficiency
-it is also effective for acute Wind-Heat with Thirst
Dose:
Decoction: 6โ9 grams
Powder: 1โ4 grams
Preparation:
Substitutes:
Main Combinations:
Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with Forsythia Lian Qiao
1. Lonicera Jin Yin Hua is commonly combined with Forsythia Lian Qiao for Wind-Heat and Heat-Toxin conditions:
i. add … available in PRO version
ii. add … available in PRO version
iii. for High Fever, add … available in PRO version
iv. add … available in PRO version
v. Toxic Sores, add … available in PRO version
vi. Ulcers with Heat-Toxin, add … available in PRO version
2. Fever, Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with … available in PRO version
3. Painful, deep-rooted Boils, Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with … available in PRO version
4. Abscesses:
i. Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with … available in PRO version
ii. Lung Abscess: Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with … available in PRO version
iii. Internal Abscess: Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with … available in PRO version
iv. Abscesses, Furuncles, Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with … available in PRO version
v. early stage Breast Abscess, Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with … available in PRO version
vi. Breast Abscess, Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with … available in PRO version
5. Carbuncles:
i. Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with … available in PRO version.
ii. Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with … available in PRO version
6. Angry red Sores, Canker sores
i. In Licorice decoction boil … available in PRO version
7. Spots and Pimples of the face, … available in PRO version
8. Bleeding Intestinal Abscess or Dysentery with Blood, Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with … available in PRO version
9.. Dysentery, Lonicera Jin Yin Hua with … available in PRO version
Major Formula:
Yin Qiao San
Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin
Cautions:
Generally Safe and well tolerated
1. Caution in Cold and Weakness of the Stomach
