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Today, Honeysuckle Flower refers to the dried flower buds or newly opened flowers of honeysuckle flower family plant honeysuckle flower Lonicera japonica Thunb., Honeysuckle Stem refers to the dry stems and branches of this plant, and wild honeysuckle flower bud refers to honeysuckle flower family plant honeysuckle flower Lonicera. macranthoides Hand.-Mazz., honeysuckle flower Lonicera hypoglauca Miq. or honeysuckle flower Lonicera confusa DC. Honeysuckle Flower is both wild and cultivated. It is mainly produced in Mi County, Wen County, Boai, Qinyang, Dengfeng, Gongxian, Xingyang, Wuzhi and Meng County of Henan Province. It is called "Huaiyinhua", also known as "Huaiyinhua" ”, those produced in Pingyi, Feixian, Cangshan, Yishui, Mengyin and other places in Shandong are called “Dong Yinhua” or “Ji Yinhua”, especially those produced in Mi County, Henan Province, and the product is specially called “Milan Flower”. flower". In addition, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou and other places also produce it. Honeysuckle Stem is less used and its output is the same as Honeysuckle Flower. Zhongguo Yaodian The 2005 version separated the red gland honeysuckle flower and South China honeysuckle flower, which were originally used as Honeysuckle Flowers for medicine, from the Honeysuckle Flower strips, and added the gray felt honeysuckle flower, which together serve as the "wild honeysuckle flower bud". The original plant, wild honeysuckle flower bud, is cultivated or wild in many parts of the country. The majority of the plant is cultivated, with no obvious authenticity.

materia medica research believes that the medicinal parts of honeysuckle flower were still mainly rattan seedlings and leaves until the Song Dynasty. The name Honeysuckle Flower in the prescription books at that time mainly refers to its stems and leaves rather than the flower buds. The use of honeysuckle flower as medicine began in the Song Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, the reason for the prosperity of Honeysuckle Flower may be related to the emphasis on using its flower buds for tea leaf fluid retention at that time. The ancient Honeysuckle Flower was mainly derived from the Lonicera genus of the honeysuckle flower family. The authentic status of the Lonicera japonica used today is related to the wide distribution and large-scale planting of this variety in Henan, especially the emphasis on Honeysuckle Flower in this area since the Song Dynasty. Various varieties of wild honeysuckle flower bud have always been one of the sources of Honeysuckle Flower. However, judging from the guidance of the 2005 edition of the Pharmacopoeia, if there are no new discoveries in the ingredients and medicinal effects of these wild honeysuckle flower buds in the future, they will most likely be obtained from medicinal materials. The market has been eliminated, so large-scale planting is not recommended.

【Variety Review】

Honeysuckle Flower was called honeysuckle flower in ancient times. It was recorded in Mingyi Bielu. Tao Hong-jing said: "It can be found everywhere today. It grows like a vine and does not wither in the winter, so it is called honeysuckle flower." As for Honeysuckle Flower, The name was first seen in Sushen Liangfang. Its treatment of Yongju Fang uses honeysuckle flower young seedlings and Liquorice Root. There is a note after the prescription: "I am in Jiangxi, there is The medical monk Jian Qing was good at curing back gangrene, and he found the prescription, using old man's beard, which was quite mysterious. Ten years later, when I passed through Jinling, I heard that the doctor Wang Qi was also good at curing ulcers, and he used Japanese honeysuckle stem in his prescription. The old man has a beard. A few years later, his friend Wang Ziyuan said that he had tried to live several people, and he used Japanese honeysuckle stem. After Liyang passed, Dr. Du was treating ulcers, and he tried to live one person for 20,000 yuan, and used Japanese honeysuckle stem. stem. Prince Ning Guowei of Xuanzhou refutes one side and uses Honeysuckle Flower. Liu Chunchen, a scholar from Haizhou, passes one side and uses gold hairpin strands. These kings all have their own skills and ask for their grass to look at it and build something. The rest. Based on materia medica, it is honeysuckle flower." It also describes the shape of honeysuckle flower and the origin of other names: "honeysuckle flower has rounded leaf tips and stems, and hairy stems and leaves. It can be found everywhere in field fences. The two leaves are opposite. , the new leaves in spring and summer are slightly pointed and light green and soft in color. In autumn, they are thick, dark and round in color. When there is frost, the leaves are curled and purple in color. They will not wither through the winter. They bloom in April, very fragrant and lovely, like jasmine and daphne. The color is white, turning yellow in a few days, with each yellow and white alternating, so it is named Honeysuckle Flower. The flowers bloom with stamens and several stems like silk, so it is called an old man's beard and a golden hairpin. In winter, the leaves are round and thick like squid, so it is named Honeysuckle Flower. japanese honeysuckle stem. The root can be moved to the sill of the courtyard in case of emergencies." Yishuo also quoted "Yi Jian Ji Zhi" as saying: "During Chongning, five monks from Baiyun Temple in Tianping Mountain, Suzhou were walking in the mountains. They got a bunch of mushrooms, which were very big. They picked them and cooked them. They vomited at night. The three of them hurriedly picked the mandarin duck grass and ate it, and they recovered. The two of them were not willing to eat it and vomited until they died. This grass grows on vines and has yellow and white flowers in opposite directions. It is found everywhere near water and mountains. It is particularly effective in treating swelling and poisoning of Yongju. It can be taken or applied. Today, people call it Honeysuckle Flower, also called old man's beard, and the materia medica is called honeysuckle flower. "Refer to Xinxiu Bencao's morphological description of honeysuckle flower: "This grass grows on a vine and wraps around the vegetation. The seedling stems are reddish-purple, and the host has a thin white-skinned membrane. Its young stems are hairy and the leaves are like Honeysuckle flower also has hairs on top and bottom, with white flowers and purple stamens." I know that what others call honeysuckle flower or honeysuckle flower are plants of the genus Lonicera in the honeysuckle flower family.

Honeysuckle flower used rattan stems in ancient times, so Bielu said it was harvested in December. "Zheng Lei" quoted Zhouhou Fang to treat flying corpses and corpse injections, and honeysuckle flower stems were used. Leaves, until the Song Dynasty, although it was known as Honeysuckle Flower, not many people used the flower. The actual users of Sushen Liangfang and Yishuo are still the canes or whole grass of honeysuckle flower. In addition, Lyuchanyan Bencao is also used in the second volume. The name of Honeysuckle Flower is mentioned, and the name of the article is "Heron Vine", and Jiyan Beiju Fang is a magical prescription for treating acute mastitis back gangrene. Honeysuckle Flower is used alone, but it is marked after the prescription. "Collect the leaves and grind them into decoction." From this, we know that the name "Honeysuckle Flower" in the prescription books at that time was to describe its plant characteristics and not specifically to use the flowers as medicine. "Three categories of disease cause Jiyi Disease Prescriptions" Volume 10 of the honeysuckle flower pill prescription, using honeysuckle flower grass, only officially mentioned: "Both the roots, flowers and leaves can be used. One old man's beard, one honeysuckle flower, one Honeysuckle Flower."

In the Ming DynastyJiuhuang Bencao, "Honeysuckle Flower" was used as the correct name for honeysuckle flower for the first time. The article goes: "Honeysuckle Flower, materia medica is called honeysuckle flower, one is the heron vine, the other is the left twining vine, A golden hair stem, also known as old man's beard, also known as Honeysuckle Stem. It was not recorded in the state where it came from in the past, but it can also be found in the mountains and fields of Huixian County today. Its vines do not wither in the winter, so it is called honeysuckle flower grass. The attached tree spreads The stems are slightly purple, with leaves on opposite nodes. The leaves are green like lychee leaves, but also like water tea leaves. The heads are slightly lumpy and soft, and the back is quite astringent, like black soybean. The leaves are large and have five flowers. Slightly fragrant, the pedicle is red, and the flowers are white at first, and turn yellow after one or two days, hence the name Honeysuckle Flower. Materia medica does not mention Yongju back gangrene, which is used by modern celebrities for miraculous effects. It tastes sweet, Warm in nature, non-toxic." Later Diannan Bencao described the effects of Honeysuckle Flower and Honeysuckle Stem respectively, and briefly said: "Honeysuckle Flower is bitter in taste and cold in nature, clears away heat, and relieves sores. Yongju back gangrene, innominate swelling pain, dandruff, scrofula, pestilent qi. Vine, can widen the lowering qi, dispersing phlegm, dispelling wind heat, clear throat heat pain. "

The Ming Dynasty's "Pin Hui Jing Yao", Bencao Gangmu, and "materia medica Cheng Ya Ban Gao" and other books said that honeysuckle flower "the stems, leaves and flowers have the same function", which dates back to Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. Starting from the 19th century, flowers were emphasized and vines were neglected. Representative remarks such as Depei Bencao (the 26th year of Qianlong reign, 1761) said: "The vines and leaves can be used, but the flowers are especially good." Bencao Qiuzhen (Qianlong 34th year, 1769) said: "Flowers and leaves have the same function, and the flowers are particularly wonderful." The reason may be related to the emphasis on fluid retention at that time, using Honeysuckle Flower tea leaf and making Honeysuckle Flower dew. Bencao Qiuzhen Honeysuckle Flower article mentioned: "In the south of the Yangtze River, this is used to replace tea leaf." Zhiwu Mingshi Tukao said: "Wu summerheat stroke moon, with flowers into tea leaf fluid retention, Honeysuckle Flower is the most expensive tea leaf shop when it is newly sold, and they are all produced in Zhongzhou." The production of Honeysuckle Flower dew can be seen in Bencao Gangmu Shiyi: "Gold and silver dew is steamed from Honeysuckle Stem flowers, and the flowers are fragrant when steamed. Dried flowers are less valuable. They have fragrant aroma and sweet taste. They can whet the appetite and relieve heat by removing toxin. Use it instead of tea leaves in the summer months. It can be fed to children without sores, and it can especially dispel summer heat."

【Evolution of Authentic】

Honeysuckle flower is produced in various places with different varieties. "Updated Weiyao Tiaobian once named Honeysuckle Flower from different places of origin to distinguish them. Cao Yun: "Honeysuckle Flower is produced in Huaihe, Henan. The Qing one is called Huai Mi, which is yellow and white in color, soft, waxy and clean, and has thick and long flowers with fine hairs. The ones produced in Yuzhou are called Yu Mi. The flowers are smaller, have no fine hairs, and change color easily, which is also good. The ones produced in Jinan are Jiyin, the color is dark yellow, and the flowers are broken sometimes. The ones from Bozhou have small stems, and the flowers are broken. The ones from Hubei and Guangdong are dark yellow, the stems and flowers are heavily chipped, the smell is turbid, and they cannot be used as medicine." It should be affirmed that these are not suitable for medicine. Most Honeysuckle Flowers are plants of the genus Lonicera in the honeysuckle flower family. The acquisition of the authentic status of Lonicera japonica is largely related to the wide distribution and planting of this variety in Henan, especially the emphasis on Honeysuckle Flowers here since the Song Dynasty. Volume 3 of "Old News of Quwei" says: "There is a kind of flower growing in the fields of Zheng and Xu in February and March. Its fragrance is clear and distant. When I smell it immediately, it looks like a mignonette. The flower is white in color. The natives call it the egret flower because of its similar shape. It is also called Wulixiang." According to what he said, it is Honeysuckle Flower, and Zheng Xu is in Henan. Jiuhuang Bencao said that "they are also found in the mountains and fields of Huixian County today" and attached pictures. Zhiwu Mingshi Tukao also said that "they are all produced in Zhongzhou".

Obviously, there is no doubt that Henan is the main production area of ​​Honeysuckle Flower. As for the newly differentiated variety "wild honeysuckle flower bud" in the 2005 version of Zhongguo Yaodian, it was actually one of the sources of Honeysuckle Flower in ancient times. However, according to the guidance of the Pharmacopoeia, if there are no new discoveries in ingredients and medicinal effects of these wild honeysuckle flower buds in the future, they are likely to be eliminated from the medicinal material market, so large-scale cultivation is not recommended.