{"id":2019,"date":"2017-04-03T20:56:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicinalherbinfo.org\/000Herbs2016\/?page_id=2019"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:24:33","slug":"honeysuckle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicinalherbinfo.org\/000Herbs2016\/1herbs\/honeysuckle\/","title":{"rendered":"Honeysuckle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=center>\n<h5>Contents:<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"#Names\">Common Names<\/a> | <a href=\"#Parts\">Parts Usually Used<\/a> | <a href=\"#Description\">Plant(s) &amp; Culture<\/a> | <a href=\"#Where\">Where Found<\/a> | <a href=\"#Properties\">Medicinal Properties<\/a> | <a href=\"#Biochemical\">Biochemical Information<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#Legends\">Legends, Myths and Stories<\/a> | <a href=\"#Uses\">Uses<\/a> | <a href=\"#Dosages\">Formulas or Dosages<\/a> | <a href=\"#Warning\">Warning<\/a> | <a href=\"#Bibliography\">Bibliography<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Scientific Names<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medicinalherbinfo.org\/000Herbs2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Honeysuckle.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" alt=\"Honeysuckle - Lonicera Japonica\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Lonicera periclymenum L.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Lonicera Japonica<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Caprifoliaceae<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Honeysuckle family<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><a name=\"Names\">Common Names<\/a> <\/h3>\n<p><b>Lonicera periclymenum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>European honeysuckle<\/li>\n<li>Woodbine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Lonicera Japonica:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chinese honeysuckle<\/li>\n<li>Japanese honeysuckle<\/li>\n<li>Jin yin hua<\/li>\n<li>Ren dong teng<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        <\/b> <a href=\"#top\"><font size=\"-1\">Back to Top<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<hr size=3 width=80% COLOR=\"#004040\" align=\"center\">\n<h3><a name=\"Parts\">Parts Usually Used<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lonicera periclymenum:<\/strong><br \/>\nFlowers, bark<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lonicera Japonica:<\/strong><br \/>\nBark, flowers, leaves<br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\"><font size=\"-1\">Back to Top<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=3 width=80% COLOR=\"#004040\" align=\"center\">\n<h3><a name=\"Description\">Description of Plant(s) and Culture<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medicinalherbinfo.org\/000Herbs2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Honeysuckle1.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"350\" height=\"430\" alt=\"Honeysuckle - Lonicera Japonica\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lonicera periclymenum:<\/strong><strong><\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cWho does not know the honeysuckle?\u201d  No need to describe it.<\/p>\n<p>The flowers of this plant, pink, creamy-yellow and purple, are not only pretty but are medicinal as well.  They are sweet-tasting and may be eaten raw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lonicera Japonica:<\/strong><br \/>\nJapanese honeysuckle is an evergreen trailing, twining vine.  The leaves are oval, entire (not toothed) and the flowers are white or buff; lobes are strongly spreading from the throat, stamens protruding; flowers in April and July.<\/p>\n<p>This evergreen trailing twining vine has become a troublesome weed in the South.  The flowers are white but quickly fade to yellow, earning the plant the name \u201cGold and Silver Flower\u201d in China.  The leaves and flowers are used in Traditional Chinese Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Another variety:<\/strong> Called honeysuckle (L. interrupta).  The leaves were used by Yuki (California) to wash sores (SEE SORES).  Shoshones pound raw root and apply to swellings. <br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\"><font size=\"-1\">Back to Top<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=3 width=80% COLOR=\"#004040\" align=\"center\">\n<h3><a name=\"Where\">Where Found<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lonicera periclymenum:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe borders of woods, in hedges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lonicera Japonica:<\/strong><br \/>\nNoxious weed in much of the southern states; north to Massachusetts, Indiana.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\"><font size=\"-1\">Back to Top<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=3 width=80% COLOR=\"#004040\" align=\"center\">\n<h3><a name=\"Properties\">Medicinal Properties<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medicinalherbinfo.org\/000Herbs2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Honeysuckle2.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Honeysuckle - Lonicera periclymenum\" width=\"350\" height=\"214\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lonicera periclymenum:<\/strong><br \/>\nDiuretic, antispasmodic, expectorant, laxative, emetic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lonicera Japonica:<\/strong><br \/>\nAlterative, antiviral, antibacterial, antibiotic, antispasmodic, astringent, diuretic, diaphoretic, febrifuge, refrigerant<br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\"><font size=\"-1\">Back to Top<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=3 width=80% COLOR=\"#004040\" align=\"center\">\n<h3><a name=\"Biochemical\">Biochemical Information<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lonicera periclymenum:<\/strong><br \/>\nTannin, flavonoids, mucilage, sugars, salicylic acid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lonicera Japonica:<\/strong><br \/>\nLuteolin, inositol, tannin, sugars, mucilage<br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\"><font size=\"-1\">Back to Top<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=3 width=80% COLOR=\"#004040\" align=\"center\">\n<h3><a name=\"Legends\">Legends, Myths and Stories<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lonicera periclymenum:<\/strong><br \/>\nPliney recommended woodbine to be taken in wine for spleen disorders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lonicera Japonica:<\/strong><br \/>\nToday, Chinese honeysuckle is more likely to be used medicinally.  This was first listed in the Tang Ben Cao, written in 659 AD and is one of the most important Chinese herbs for clearing poisons from the body.<\/p>\n<p>Yuki Basketry:  On the Round Valley Reservation, the original inhabitants were Yukis.  Materials were much the same as those used by their neighbors, except that in addition to those, Yukis used maple and honeysuckle to make baskets.<\/p>\n<p>Another plant called honeysuckle is <strong><em>Diervilla canadensis<\/em><\/strong>. <br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\"><font size=\"-1\">Back to Top<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=3 width=80% COLOR=\"#004040\" align=\"center\">\n<h3><a name=\"Uses\">Uses<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lonicera periclymenum:<\/strong><br \/>\nA tonic for the heart and a remedy for most cardiac disorders.  It is good for chest colds, coughs, and asthma, rheumatism, arthritis, swollen glands including mumps, childbirth, liver trouble, sore throat, dropsy, and ailments of the skin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lonicera Japonica:<\/strong><br \/>\nHoneysuckle is used for infections and inflammations and has broad spectrum antimicrobial activity against Salmonella typhi, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae.  Leaves and flowers make a beverage tea in Japan.  Flowers traditionally used in eastern Asia in tea for bacterial dysentery, enteritis, laryngitis, conjunctivitis, inflammations of the urinary tract and reproductive organs, fevers, colds, flu.  Often combined with forsythia fruit. It is similar to the echinacea of Chinese medicine.  Externally, as a wash for rheumatism, sores, tumors (especially breast cancer), infected boils, scabies, swelling.  The stem tea is weaker.  Experimentally, flower extracts lower cholesterol; reduces blood pressure, also used to treat tuberculosis.  This serious weed might be managed by utilizing it for proven medical purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Recent studies in China have found honeysuckle to be effective in treatment of certain cancers, especially of the breast.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same plant as the commonly known ornamental flower.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\"><font size=\"-1\">Back to Top<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=3 width=80% COLOR=\"#004040\" align=\"center\">\n<h3><a name=\"Dosages\">Formulas or Dosages<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Lonicera periclymenum:<\/strong><br \/>\nHarvest in summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syrup:  <\/strong>infuse 4 lb. of fresh petals and 1 quart boiling water in a covered vessel for 12 hours; express lightly at the end of that time, then decant.  Add twice the weight of white sugar and make a syrup.  Take a dessert-spoonful daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Infusion:<\/strong> for those who would prefer something less sickly, and less fattening, than the syrup, can prepare a standard infusion or decoction from the grated bark;  1 part bark to 7 parts water.  Take 2 cupfuls daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lonicera Japonica:<\/strong><br \/>\nHarvest in summer.<\/p>\n<p>May use the same instructions for syrup and infusion.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\"><font size=\"-1\">Back to Top<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=3 width=80% COLOR=\"#004040\" align=\"center\">\n<h3><a name=\"Warning\">Warning<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Lonicera (various species) have somewhat poisonous fruits and also emetic.<br \/>\n<a href=\"#top\"><font size=\"-1\">Back to Top<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=3 width=80% COLOR=\"#004040\" align=\"center\">\n<h3><a name=\"Bibliography\">Bibliography<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001RFJ4OK\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B001RFJ4OK&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=medherinf-20&#038;linkId=WTTGW7GJFD75FLVP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medicinalherbinfo.org\/000Herbs2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/buyit.gif\" width=41 height=16 border=0 alt=\"Buy It!\"> American Folk Medicine<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=medherinf-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0690066937\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>, by Clarence Meyer, Meyerbooks, publisher, PO Box 427, Glenwood, Illinois 60425, 1973<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/156458187X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=156458187X&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=medherinf-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medicinalherbinfo.org\/000Herbs2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/buyit.gif\" width=41 height=16 border=0 alt=\"Buy It!\"> The Complete Medicinal Herbal<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=medherinf-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=156458187X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>, by Penelope Ody, Dorling Kindersley, Inc, 232 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, First American Edition, copyright 1993<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0395988144\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0395988144&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=medherinf-20&#038;linkId=X7ZTSHWQ2N4GVWXT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medicinalherbinfo.org\/000Herbs2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/buyit.gif\" width=41 height=16 border=0 alt=\"Buy It!\"> Eastern\/Central Medicinal Plants<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=medherinf-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0395988144\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>, by Steven Foster and James A. 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Hylton, Rodale Press, Inc. Emmaus, PA, 18049., 1974<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\"><font size=\"-1\">Back to Top<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4390707348229770\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- MHI-wide-728x90 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4390707348229770\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5012760358\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contents: Common Names | Parts Usually Used | Plant(s) &amp; Culture | Where Found | Medicinal Properties | Biochemical Information Legends, Myths and Stories | Uses | Formulas or Dosages | Warning | Bibliography Scientific Names Lonicera periclymenum L. 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