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Jinyinhua is the dried bud or that with early blossoming flower of Lonicera japonica Thunb., pertaining to Caprifoliaceae. It is collected in early summer before blossom, and is dried. The raw form is used. Also it is used after stir-baked or processed ito daw form.

[ Medicinal Properties ]: Sweet and cold; relate to lung, heart and stomach meridians.

[ Medicinal Efficacies ]: Clear heat, relieve toxicity; diperse wind and discharge heat.

[ Usage and Dosage ]: 6-5g. It is stir-baked to charcoal for blood dysentery. Also it is used externally.

[ Precautions ]: Avoid with deficiency-cold of spleen ad stomach, as well as diluted pus in sores and ulcers due to qi deficiency.

 

[ Clinical Applications ]: 1. Ulcers, abscess, furuncle,and swelling        Jinyinhua is the most significant medicinal to treat internal abscess and external abscess, by itself or by pounding the fresh one for external application. Also it can be used with Yejuhua, Pugongying and Zihuadiding; for example inn Wuwei Xiaodu Decoction. it treats abdominal pain due to intestinal abscess, combined with Danggui, Yiyiren and Huangqin.

 

2. External contraction of wind-heat,  and early stage of warm disease    For external contraction of wind-heat or ealry stage of warm disease, manifesting as fever, headache, sore thorat and thirst, ususally it is combined with Lianqiao, Bohe and Niubangzi; for example in Yinqiao Powder. It treats entering of heat into qi level, manifesting as high fever, agitation, thirst, surging and large pulse, combined with Shigao, Zhimu and Lianqiao. Also it treats entering of heat into nutrient and blood level, manifesting as purple tongue, coma, agitation and insomnia, in combination with Shengdihuang, Xuanshen and Danshen in Qingying Decoctiong, for it can push heat out from nutrient through qi.

 

3. Heat toxin and blood dysentery     It is applied alone by processing the fresh one into condensed decoction, to be taken in small doses at short intervals, or in combinatin with Huangqin, Huanglian and Baitouweng.

Also it can be processed into dew, to clear heat, relieve summer-heat, clear head and eyes. It can treat agitation and thirst due to summer-heat, swollen and sore throat, infantile herpes simplex and heat rash.

[ Annotation ]:Ren dong teng :Rendongteng is the dried stem of honeysuckle, also known as Yinhuateng. In fall and winter, cut the twig with leaves and sun dry. The raw form is used. Sweet and bitter. it relate to lung and stomach meridians. its property is similar to that of Jinyinhua, but weaker in clearing heat and relieving toxicity. Also it can disperse wind and unblock collaterals to treat warm disease,fever, heat toxin, blood dysentery, abscess,swelling, sores and ulcers, wind-damp-heat arthralgia with reddish, swollen and pain joints. Dosage 9-30 g.

金银花为忍冬科植物忍冬Lonicera japonica Thund．、红腺忍冬L. hypoglauca Miq.、山银花L. confusa DC.或毛花柱忍冬L. dasystyla Rehd.的干燥花蕾或带初开的花。我国南北各地均有分布，主产于河南、山东等省。夏初花开放前采摘，阴干。生用，炒用或制成露剂使用。