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Honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum

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A caprifolium blooming in a norwegian garden
A caprifolium blooming in a norwegian garden
Common Names
Honeysuckle , jin yin hua, lonicera
Botanical Name
Lonicera periclymenum
Family
CAPRIFOLIACEAE Honeysuckle Family
Honeysuckle Medicinal Properties & Benefits
Common Uses: Abrasions/Cuts * Abscess/Boil *
Properties: Astringent* Depurative* Expectorant* Diuretic*
Parts Used: Aerial parts
Constituents:mucilage, glucoside, salicylic acid, invertin
Traditions: Traditional Chinese Medicine *

This sweet smelling shrub fills the summer air with it's sweet scent. According to Grieve "A dozen or more of the 100 species of Lonicera or Honeysuckle are used medicinally" . 3 Lonicera caprifolium is astringent, depurative, expectorant, laxative, diuretic and useful in the treatment of respiratory and catarrh. 1 The flowers are used in external applications for skin infections.4


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Traditional Chinese Medicine
tradional chinese medicine

In Traditional Chinese medicine, honeysuckle flowers are among the important herbs for clearing heat and relieving toxicity. 1

F. suspensa (Chinese:; pinyin: liánqiào) is considered one of the 50 fundamental herbs in Chinese herbology, but is relagated to ornamental use only here in the West.

Side Effects:
How to Use: Honeysuckle
Preparation Methods & Dosage :Teas, tinctures, flower water. ointments

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referencesHoneysuckle Medicinal Uses & Benefits
Abrasions/Cuts * Abscess/Boil *
Honeysuckle for :Skin rash, boils
Skin rash, boils Honeysuckle flowers act as natural antihistamine, although they are more useful for treating rashes and inflammation than for treating coughing and sneezing. Traditionally combined with mint for rashes or outbreaks on the skin following nervous tension, and with scutellaria to treat boils

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Honeysuckle for :Bronchitis, chest congestion
Bronchitis, chest congestion

I regard honeysuckle and forsythia* as safe and effective, although they are not listed as GRAS by the FDA ( whose ways are a mystery to me). I wouldn't hesitate to use them for bronchitis and the chest congestion of colds and flu. Chinese studies have confirmed centuries of folkloric use.

James Duke, The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook (2000)

Plant Description


Related Species L. caprifolium, the Italian honeysuckle, L. tartarica, from Siberia, and L. xylosteum from Asia and eastern Europe
History and Traditions
historyThe flowers have been highly valued for medicinal purposes by many cultures worldwide and their use was recommended by Dioscorides and Gerard.
Astrology:
folkloreMercury hath dominion over the common sort. Dodoneus saith, The leaves and flowers are good to ease the griping pains of the gout, the herb being boiled and used in a clyster. If the herb be made into a poultice, and applied to inflammations, it will ease them. The juice dropped in the eyes, is a familiar medicine, with many country people, to take away the pin and web (as they call it) in the eyes; it also allays the heat and blood shooting of them. Country people do also in many places drink the juice thereof against the biting of an adder; and having boiled the herb in water, they first wash the place with the decoction, and then lay some of the herb also to the hurt place. The herb also boiled in swine's grease, and so made into an ointment, is good to apply to the biting of any venomous creature. The herb also bruised and heated between tiles, and applied hot to the share, causes them to make water who had it stopt before. It is held likewise to be good for wounds, and to take away seed. The decoction of the herb and flowers, with the seed and root, taken for some time, helps women that are troubled with the whites. The seed and flowers boiled in water, and afterwards made into a poultice with some oil, and applied, helps hard swellings and imposthumes. Nicholas Culpeper
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References:
  1. Duke, James The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook .(December 15, 2000)
  2. Mountain Rose Herbs Honeysuckle Profile
  3. Richard Mabey. The New Age Herbalist (1988)

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