The courtyard is planted with a pot of spring cold prevention, summer fire and fragrance.

Honeysuckle, a honeysuckle family, perennial semi-evergreen winding woody vines. "Honeysuckle" a name from the "Compendium of Materia Medica," due to honeysuckle flower opening for white, then turned yellow, so named honeysuckle. honeysuckle is dry bud or budding flower of honeysuckle plant and plant of that same genus of honeysuckle family. Also because of a peduncle two flowers, two stamens outside, in pairs, inseparable, like male and female company, but also like mandarin duck dance, so there are mandarin duck vine said.

Flos honeysuckle fragrance is a traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times, enjoy the reputation of "small fairy medicine shop". Honeysuckle is sweet and cold, and has been praised as a good medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying since ancient times. The well-known Chinese medicine Shuanghuanglian refers to two-color flower_honeysuckle, and Yinqiao Jiedu tablet refers to honeysuckle.

Honeysuckle flower generally in the summer of April to June, this period honeysuckle flowering most vigorous, flower quality is also the best. In autumn honeysuckle flowers bloom, and the fruit ripens. The fragrance of honeysuckle is clear and elegant, pure white when the flower opens, the fragrance is the most intense, the next day becomes yellow, and the fragrance gradually dissipates. Because honeysuckle flowers, flowering cycle is long, garden planted on a pot of honeysuckle, fragrance elegant, full of courtyard aroma.

Honeysuckle refreshing, its flowers, stems, leaves, vines can be used as medicine. The most commonly used is honeysuckle flower tea, honeysuckle tea drinking from the Qing Dynasty,"materia medica truth""honeysuckle" article mentioned: "Jiangnan place, this instead of tea." "Plant name real map test" records: "Wu heatstroke month, with flowers into tea drink, tea shop to sell new honeysuckle for expensive, are produced in Zhongzhou also." Honeysuckle tea sweet, cold nature, with clearing away heat and detoxification, Shu Li throat, eliminate summer heat in addition to the role of trouble.

Honeysuckle function:

1. Anti-virus and anti-inflammatory

Honeysuckle soaked in water has a good inhibitory effect on various viruses, including various fungi, typhoid fever and wound suppuration have obvious inhibitory effects. Honeysuckle soaking water can promote the transformation of lymphocytes, enhance the phagocytic function of leukocytes, thus achieving the effect of improving immunity. It has a certain preventive effect on colds.

2. Clearing heat and relieving fire

Summer hot, autumn air dry, easy to get angry. Honeysuckle has a certain role in clearing away heat and relieving fire. Honeysuckle has a good effect on people with strong internal fire. It has a good therapeutic effect on mouth sores caused by fire, dry tongue and other symptoms.

3. Evacuation

Honeysuckle is sweet and cold in nature, and its fragrance is fragrant and transparent. It can not only clear away heat and toxic materials, but also disperse cold. It can be used for the treatment of wind-heat exterior syndrome and various stages of warm disease, defensive qi and blood. In addition, honeysuckle also has the role of clearing summer heat, summer decoction on behalf of tea or honeysuckle dew can relieve summer heat, treatment of exogenous summer heat and other diseases.

Honeysuckle planting precautions

Honeysuckle, like sun, shade resistance, sufficient light, can not be placed in the shade, ventilation should be timely and usual; The soil requirements are not strict, but the moist, fertile deep sandy soil grows best, but the soil with enough phosphorus fertilizer is needed; Pruning timely, during the growth of honeysuckle, pruning work should also be done well, pruning branches and buds and pruning unhealthy branches and buds will also affect flowering.