When does honeysuckle flower?

Honeysuckle scientific name honeysuckle, medicinal honeysuckle honeysuckle for honeysuckle and the same genus plant dry buds or with early blooming flowers, since ancient times as a good medicine for heat-clearing and detoxification, not only can spread wind-heat, but also good at clearing blood poison, it has a significant effect on a variety of heat venereal diseases, such as body fever, rash, hair spots, heat-toxic sore carbuncle, sore throat and so on. Let's take a look at when honeysuckle blossoms.

When does honeysuckle blossom?

Honeysuckle usually begins to bloom in late May and ends around mid-October with a florescence of about 150 days. Usually, the first stubble blossoms in late May, the second in mid-July, the third in mid-August and the fourth in mid-October, and the flowering period of each stubble is about 7 days. The total pedicel of honeysuckle is usually solitary in the upper leaf axil of the branchlet, as long as or slightly shorter than the petiole, the Corolla is white, sometimes the base toward the sunny side is reddish, then turns yellow, lip-shaped, the tube is slightly longer than the lip, fragrant.

Where is the origin of honeysuckle?

Honeysuckle has strong adaptability, like yang, shade, cold, drought and moisture tolerance, and is not strict with the soil, but it grows best on moist and fertile deep sandy soil and shoots twice every spring and summer. The planting areas are mainly concentrated in Shandong, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places, among which Pingyi County, Linyi City, Shandong Province is the main producing area of honeysuckle. Korea and Japan are also distributed, escaping from North America has become a weed difficult to weed.

Efficacy and function of Flos Lonicerae

1. Heat-clearing and detoxification: honeysuckle has the effect of qi leveling, and the effect of heat-clearing and detoxification is very obvious. In the hot summer, you can often drink honeysuckle bubble water, which can not only play the effect of relieving summer heat, but also improve the spirit and make the body feel refreshed.

2. Blood clearance and detoxification: drinking tea with honeysuckle can help the human body clean up the fat and harmful substances in the blood in time, increase vascular blood flow, and effectively prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular dangerous diseases such as myocardial infarction.

3. Prevention of influenza: studies have found that honeysuckle can inhibit a variety of bacteria that cause colds, and drinking can increase our antiviral ability and enhance human immunity. It can be described as a "traditional Chinese medicine antibiotic" in the field of traditional Chinese medicine.

4. Dispel heat and dissipate evil: Flos Lonicerae has a certain effect on the onset of wind-heat or febrile disease, such as body-heat headache, restlessness, dizziness, dry throat and dry mouth.

5. Cooling blood and stopping dysentery: honeysuckle soaking water has the effect of detoxifying dysentery, cooling blood and pharynx on heat-toxic dysentery, purulent blood of diarrhea, damp-temperature blocking throat, sore throat and so on.

6. antibacterial and anti-inflammatory: honeysuckle contains a kind of effective inhibition of dysentery, typhoid, meningococci, green pus, Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus and influenza virus. After entering the body, it can effectively promote the release of adrenocortical hormone, which has a good inhibitory effect on all kinds of inflammation and swelling.