Jin Yin Hua
| Jin Yin Hua in TCM:Explore the properties of Jin Yin Hua according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: lonicera flower, honeysuckle flower
Pharmacuetical Name: Flos Lonicerae
Properties: sweet, cold
Temperature: cold
Channels: LU, LI, ST
Flavors: sweet
Special Properties:
clears heat, eliminates toxins, resolves summer heat
Actions / Indications:
- ClearsToxic Heat (hot, painful sores and swellings
at various stages; breast abcess; intestinal abcess)
- Exterior wind-heat (wei syndrome of warm-febrile
diseases, exterior wind-heat with slight aversion to wind, sore throat,
headache, summer-heat, used for ying syndrome to prevent pathogen from
going deeper)
- Cools blood and stops dysenteric disorder (dysenteric
disorder with pus and blood in stools)
Special Notes:
- Antibiotic effects, anti-inflammatory, and anti-pyretic.
- One study showed excellent results to treat common cold in over 1000 patients.
Contraindications:
- (cc: SP and ST cold deficiency with diarrhea)
- (cc: sores due to qi deficiency and yin type sores)
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