Honeysuckle is a detoxifying plant that we often use. Its efficacy is very good, but there is a kind of flower that looks like honeysuckle, but the effect is completely different. It is the mountain silver flower. What is the difference between this mountain honeysuckle and honeysuckle? We understand the following:
What is Mountain Silver Flower?
The honeysuckle flower is a dry bud or first flower of the honeysuckle family of the genus Lonicera, Lonicera xylocarpa, L. sinensis or L. sinensis. Born in the stream, under the sparse forest or bushes. Produced in all parts of southern China. Tropism of taste: sweet, cold. Lungs, heart, and stomach. The corolla lobe of the opener is less than half the length, slightly harder, and slightly more elastic in the hand, with a clear fragrance and a slightly bitter taste. The main ingredients are chlorogenic acid and luteolin.
What is honeysuckle?
Honeysuckle, also known as honeysuckle, bloom, first white, then yellow, white when silver, yellow when gold, silver and silver, gorgeous, so called honeysuckle. And because of one pedicle and two flowers, two flowers are explored and paired in pairs. Inseparable and inseparable. Honeysuckle has been hailed as a good medicine for heat and detoxification. It is sweet and cold, aromatic, warm and cold without hurting the stomach. Honeysuckle can not only spread wind and heat, but also clear blood poisoning, for a variety of heat diseases, such as fever, rash, spotting, fever, sore throat, sore throat, etc., have a significant effect.
The difference between mountain silver and honeysuckle:
1, source
Honeysuckle is a dried bud or an early flower of the honeysuckle plant Lonicera. The honeysuckle is a dry bud or first flower of the honeysuckle honeysuckle plant, the red gland honeysuckle or the southern china honeysuckle.
2, plant morphology
Honeysuckle was rod-shaped, coarse and thin, slightly curved, 2 to 3 cm long, 3 mm in diameter at the top, and 1.5 mm in diameter at the bottom. The surface was yellow-white or green-white and densely pubescent. Occasional leaf blade, calyx green, apex 5-lobed, lobes hairy, ca. 2 mm, open corolla tube, apex 2-limbed, stamen 5 attached to tube wall, yellow; pistil 1, ovary glabrous , gas fragrance, taste slightly bitter.
The Lonicera macranthoides were rod-shaped and pin-cushioned, 3 to 4.5 cm long, 2 mm in upper diameter, 1 mm in diameter in the lower part, and green-brown to yellow-white on the surface. The total pedicels are clustered. The corolla lobe of the opener is less than half the length, slightly harder, and slightly more elastic in the hand, with a clear fragrance and a slightly bitter taste.
The red gland honeysuckle grows 2.5 to 4.5 cm in length and 0.8 to 2 mm in diameter. The surface is yellow-white to yellow-brown, hairless or sparsely hairy, and tuber hairless.
The southern Chinese honeysuckle grows 1.6-3.5cm in diameter and 0.5-2mm in diameter. The corolla and corolla are densely covered with gray hairs, and the ovary is hairy.
In general, it can be distinguished by the following four aspects:
(1) Odor: The scent of honeysuckle and honeysuckle is very different. The smell of honeysuckle is calm, and the smell of honeysuckle is more fragrant.
(2) Size: The honeysuckle flower is larger than the mountain silver flower, and its bud is more full than the mountain silver flower.
(3) Color: There are differences in the flower color of honeysuckle and honeysuckle. The color of the mountain honeysuckle is deeper than the color of the honeysuckle, and the color dark green may have some purple color.
(4) Bud: honeysuckle flower name honeysuckle flower, its flower is called honeysuckle, and the herbal medicine used in herbal tea is the flower bud of honeysuckle flowers, therefore, the difference between buds is very important, honeysuckle flower bud hair more, feels very soft and elastic , And the flower buds of the mountain silver flower feel very hard, less hair on the flower.
3, the content of ingredients
Honeysuckle containing chlorogenic acid, 2005 edition "Pharmacopoeia" provides: Determination of chlorogenic acid according to high performance liquid chromatography: This product is calculated on dry products, containing chlorogenic acid shall not be less than 1.5%.
Honeysuckle contains woody glycosides, 2005 edition "Pharmacopoeia" provides: Determination of high-performance liquid chromatography method of clopidin: This product is calculated according to the dry product, containing not less than 0.10% of woody glycosides.
Mountain Yinhua acid acid containing 2005 Pharmacopoeia regulations: Determination of chlorogenic acid according to high performance liquid chromatography: This product is calculated according to dry products, containing chlorogenic acid shall not be less than 1.5%.
4, effect
Honeysuckle honey in herbal tea can not be replaced with honeysuckle, mainly because the effect of honeysuckle and honeysuckle is different, and is exactly the opposite. Chinese medicine believes that honeysuckle is cold, sweet and slightly sour. It has the effects of heat-clearing, detoxifying, cooling, and activating the meridians. It can be used for swollen acne, throat, erysipelas, hot bloody phlegm, wind-heat fever, and mild fever. Fever; but the mountain silver anther is hot, does not have the role of heat and detoxification, its efficacy is completely contrary to honeysuckle. And the main component of honeysuckle is luteolin, and luteolin is hardly contained in honeysuckle, but the content of chlorogenic acid is higher than that of honeysuckle.
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