INDIVIDUAL HERBS
| Pharmaceutical Latin: | Flos Lonicerae |
| Common English: | Honeysuckle Flower Lonicera Woodbine |
| Taste | Temperature | Entering Meridians | Dosage |
Sweet (Astringent) |
Cold |
Large Intestine Lung Stomach (Heart) |
6-20g (smaller doses for Wind-Heat, larger doses for Heat toxin, sores and abscess) May use up to 60g in severe cases Tincture: 2-5 ml |
| Actions | Indications/Syndromes |
Clears Heat and resolves Fire toxicity |
Hot, painful sores and skin eruptions in various stages of development, especially breast, throat and eyes, infections, herpes simplex Intestinal abscesses, boils, carbuncles, abscesses, pimples, Chuang Yung |
Vents and disperses External Wind-Heat |
Early-Stage Wind-Heat Warm-Heat pathogen with fever, chills, slight aversion to Wind, sore throat and headache External Summerheat |
Clears Damp-Heat from the Lower Jiao |
Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao with dysentery or Lin Syndrome |
| Cools the Blood and stops bleeding (charred) | Blood Heat dysentery |
CONTRAINDICATIONS |
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INCOMPATIBILITIES |
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS |
Fr. Forsythiae |
Fr. Forsythiae |
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Various Heat disorders. (Exterior, Interior Qi, Blood) |
External Wind-Heat. |
Summer Heat fever without sweating. |
Fr. Forsythiae |
Fr. Forsythiae |
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Unremitting high fever. |
Purpuric rash caused by Heat toxin in epidemic disease. |
Vents Heat to the Qi Level from the Ying Level. |
Fr. Forsythiae |
Fr. Forsythiae |
Rx. Glycyrrhizae |
Pain and swelling of the throat. |
Wei Stage and Qi Stage Heat. Pneumonia with Heat signs. |
Toxic swellings and sores. |
Hb. Taraxaci |
Rx. Scutellariae |
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Sloughing ulcers from Heat toxicity. |
Sores, lesions carbuncles, ulceration of the skin and furuncles. |
Suppurating boils that have not ulcerated, or have ulcerated but are not discharging pus. |
Rx. Scutellariae |
Rx. Pulsatillae |
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Bloody diarrhea and dysentery. |
Summerheat. |
Bloody dysenteric disorder. |
Rx. Pulsatillae |
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Toxic Heat diarrhea. |
Bleeding Intestinal abscess or bleeding dysenteric disorder due to Damp-Warm febrile disease. |
Qi Stage Heat. |
Cx. Moutan |
Hb. Taraxaci |
Rx. Angelicae Sinensis |
Ying Stage and Xue Stage Heat. |
Boils, carbuncles and furuncles. |
Reduces obstruction and toxicity for swollen, painful sores and necrosis of surrounding tissue. |
Gypsum Fibrosum |
Rx. Rehmanniae |
Fr. Forsythiae |
Bronchitis with Heat signs. |
Ying level Heat with insomnia, irritability, skin blotches, dry mouth with a dark-purplish tongue. |
Throat soreness and swelling. |
Rx. Scrophulariae |
Sugar |
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Intestinal abscess. |
Suppurative inflammation of the legs. |
Diarrhea with mucus but no Blood. |
Brown Sugar |
Rx. Scutellariae |
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Diarrhea with Blood. |
Diarrhea or dysentery with mucus due to Damp-Heat and toxins. |
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- Do not store in iron.
- It is made into a sweet tea and taken in the summertime to protect against the effects of Heat.
- It is especially appropriate when fever, inflammation and purulence (Fire toxin) prevail.
- It is indicated for severe summer fever in children and fulminant, violent diseases of unknown origin, pyogenic infection, rheumatism, carbuncle, cellulitis, tinea, malignant boils, syphilitic skin lesions and poisoning.
- This herb has been shown to inhibit the growth of cancer cells.
- This herb is good for diseases caused by pathogenic Wind, including; abdominal fullness with diarrhea and swelling.
- For carbuncles and cellulitis, take a decoction of 250g Jin Yin Hua and 60g Rx. Angelicae Sinensis Dang Gui.
- European herbalists used to squeeze the juice to treat snakebites.
- Although not emphasized, this herb also tonifies Deficiency, enriches the Blood and alleviates thirst.
- It also resolves toxicity and expels pus.
- It can be used for any stage of Warm pathogen from superficial to deep (Wei Stage to Xue Stage).
- If toxin has not formed, it can disperse it, if toxin is already formed, it can perforate it.
- Traditionally, this herb also tonifies Deficiency, enriches the Blood, and alleviates thirst.
- This herb inhibits ascites carcinoma.
- Both Flos Lonicerae Jin Yin Hua and Fr. Forsythiae Lian Qiao are cooling and relieve toxicity and both guide Heat to the surface while cooling Internally. Lian Qiao cools Heart Fire, disperses stagnant Qi at the Blood level, treats Lin syndrome and treats shigella and staphylococcus while Jin Yin Hua disperses surface Heat, is sweet and cold so does less harm to the Stomach and treats salmonella and streptococcus.
- Charred Honeysuckle Flower Jin Yin Hua Tan enters the Blood Level, cools Heat, resolves toxicity, cools the Blood and alleviates dysenteric disorders to treat Heat toxin which has gathered in the Intestines, injured Blood collaterals and caused dysenteric disorders with hemafecia. It is also used for irregular uterine bleeding.
- Honeysuckle Flower Dew Jin Yin Hua Lu cools Summerheat while remaining gentle on the Stomach. It is excellent for children's Heat rash and toxic sores.
- Honeysuckle Leaves Jin Yin Hua Ye are less powerful and used when the flowers are in short supply.
- Honeysuckle Fruit Jin Yin Hua Zi is cooling, resolves toxicity and alleviates dysenteric disorders. It is used for toxic sores and the treatment of residual Heat from later stages of measles. (Some say the fruit is toxic).
- Breast cancer and fibrocystic breast disease have responded well to this herb.