Honeysuckle

Botanical Name: Lonicera

Other names: jin yin

Taste: Sweet

Mizaj: Cooling & Moistening

Actions:

• Flowers - diuretic, antispasmodic, expectorant, laxative, promotes vomiting
• Buds - antibacterial, reduces blood pressure, anti-inflammatory, mild diuretic, antispasmodic
• Stems - cooling

Therapeutic use: bad coughs, asthma, feverish conditions, clear toxicity, diarrhea

Dosage/Application:

• Infusions - coughs, asthma
• Syrup - coughs
• Decoction - (buds) early stages of feverish colds, 10-15 g to 600 ml water, (stems) inflammatory disease, painful joints, and influenza, 15-30 g to 600 ml water.
• Tincture - diarrhea or gastroenteritis from food poisoning

Reference:

Ody, Penelope. The Complete Medicinal Herbal. Dorling Kindersley, 1993.

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