heat-clearing
Honeysuckle Flowers
金银花 · Jīnyínhuā
Lonicera japonica
Nature
Cold
Saveur
Sweet
Meridian
Lung, Heart, Stomach
Named 'gold-silver flower' for buds that open white and age to gold, honeysuckle is the foremost heat-toxin-clearing herb in Chinese medicine. The Pingyi region of Shandong supplies buds picked at dawn before opening, when their chlorogenic acid content peaks. A staple of summer cooling teas and skin-clearing decoctions.
🌿 Fonctions
- •Clears heat and resolves toxicity
- •Disperses wind-heat
- •Cools the blood and stops dysentery
📖 Usage
10–15 g in decoction or steeped as a cooling tea, often with chrysanthemum and mint.
🔬 Recherche moderne
Chlorogenic acid and luteolin from honeysuckle are among the most studied natural antiviral and anti-inflammatory compounds in Chinese herbal research.
⚠️ Contre-indications
Avoid in cold-deficiency conditions, spleen-deficiency diarrhea, and during menstruation with cold signs.
