Honeysuckle Flower – 1 lb (454 g)

Honeysuckle Flower, known in Chinese as 金银花 (Jīnyínhuā) and scientifically as Flos Lonicerae Japonicae, is a valued herb in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This TCM herb has been traditionally used to support natural wellness, maintain vitality, and encourage holistic balance. At TCMforyou.com, we provide premium-quality Honeysuckle Flower carefully sourced to preserve its therapeutic properties.

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[Overview] This herb is also known as Ren Dong Hua, Silver Flower, Double Flower, and Er Bao Flower. It is the flower bud or partially opened flower of plants in the Caprifoliaceae family: Lonicera japonica Thunb., Lonicera hypoglauca Miq., or Lonicera dasystyla Rehd. It is distributed throughout northern and southern China, mainly produced in Henan and Shandong provinces. It is harvested before the flowers fully open in early summer and is immediately dried in the shade or by baking after picking.

[Properties] Sweet in taste, cold in nature. Enters the Lung, Heart, and Stomach meridians.

[Actions] Clears heat and detoxifies, disperses wind-heat.

[Applications]
1. Used for carbuncles, sores, and ulcers. This herb can treat all types of sores and toxic swellings with redness, swelling, pain, fever, and chills. It is often combined with Fang Feng, Bai Zhi, Ru Xiang, and Mo Yao, as in the formula Xian Fang Huo Ming Yin (Immortal Formula for Life Preservation). For furuncles and toxic swellings that are hard, deep-rooted, and severely heat-toxic, it can be combined with Wild Chrysanthemum, Dandelion, and Viola yedoensis, as in Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin (Five-Ingredient Detoxifying Drink). For carbuncles with deficient original qi that cannot ulcerate and disperse, it is combined with Ren Shen, Huang Qi, and Dang Gui, as in Tuo Li Xiao Du San (Supporting Detoxifying Powder). For treating gangrene with intense heat toxin and severe pain, or with persistent pus discharge after ulceration and toe necrosis and shedding, it is often combined with Xuan Shen, Dang Gui, and Gan Cao, as in Si Miao Yong An Tang (Four-Marvel Brave Peace Decoction). For lung abscess, combined with Xuan Shen, Tian Hua Fen, and Jie Geng, as in Wan Fei Yin (Complete Lung Drink); for intestinal abscess, combined with Xuan Shen, Dang Gui, and Yi Yi Ren, as in Qing Chang Yin (Clear Intestine Drink).
2. Used for external contracted wind-heat or early warm disease with fever, headache, sore throat, and thirst. It can be combined with Bo He, Jie Geng, Niu Bang Zi, and Gan Cao, as in Yin Qiao San (Honeysuckle and Forsythia Powder). If the pathogenic heat has just entered the nutritive level with fever worse at night, occasional delirium, and faint rashes, it is combined with Sheng Di and Dan Pi, as in Qing Ying Tang (Clear the Nutritive Decoction).
3. Used for dysentery due to heat toxin. Jin Qian Hua (Lysimachia flower) can clear intestinal heat and is good for treating dysentery with red or white stools caused by heat toxin stagnation. It can be used alone, stir-fried to preserve its nature, and taken with honey water or sugar water depending on the type of dysentery, as in Ren Dong San (Honeysuckle Powder). It can also be combined with Bai Tou Weng, Dang Gui, and Chi Shao for detoxification and blood activation.

[Dosage and Administration] Internal use: decoction, 10–20 g; or incorporated into pills or powders. External use: appropriate amount, fresh herb pounded and applied topically.

[Cautions] Use with caution in cases of spleen and stomach deficiency cold and yin-type sores.

[Modern Research]
1. Chemical constituents: Flos Lonicerae contains chlorogenic acid, isochlorogenic acid, ginkgolide, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, and volatile oils. Lonicera hypoglauca flowers contain chlorogenic acid. The related species Lonicera fulvotomentosa flower buds contain fulvotomentoside A, α-hederin, sapindoside B, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, luteolin, and volatile oils.
2. Pharmacological effects: Honeysuckle infusion and decoction have broad-spectrum antibacterial effects, inhibiting Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus, pneumococcus, meningococcus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, and other pathogens. The decoction also inhibits influenza virus, enterovirus, herpes virus, Coxsackie virus, echovirus, and leptospira, suppressing viral replication and delaying virus-induced cytopathic effects. Honeysuckle extracts have anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects; reduce intestinal cholesterol absorption in rats and lower plasma cholesterol levels; ethanol extracts show anti-early pregnancy effects; aqueous and alcoholic extracts exhibit significant cytotoxicity against mouse sarcoma S180 and Ehrlich ascites carcinoma.
3. Clinical reports: Leptospirosis—an injection prepared from honeysuckle and Centipeda minima (each ml containing 1 g and 2 g of crude drug respectively) was administered intravenously at 250 ml daily, combined with oral decoctions of both herbs (30 g and 40 g respectively). Fifty-five cases were treated, all cured after 3 to 12 days of treatment. [Zhong Yi Za Zhi, 1984, (8):48]