Honeysuckle flower widely used for fever, rash, measles

What is honeysuckle flower(Japanese Honeysuckle, Jin Yin Hua)?
Actually there are a few honeysuckle vine varieties. And their medicinal part is the dried flower bud or just barely open flower of Lonicera japonica Thunb., Lonicera hypoglauca Miq., Lonicera confusa DC., or Lonicera dasystyla Rehd., which are plants in the family caprifoliaceae. Hence, other names of it are Flos Lonicerae, Flos Lonicerae Japonicae, Honey Suckle, Jinyinhua, Ren Dong, Woodbine, and so on. In China, they are distributed in the north and south China, including Henan, Shandong and other provinces. It is regularly collected in early summer when the flowers are just blooming. And the following step is to place them in the shade to dry. It is traditionally used raw, fried, or distillated. And today it can be reachable by much more ways, such as honeysuckle flower tea, extract, essence, drink, drop, jam, jelly, and more.

Lonicera japonica is a semi-evergreen perennial twining woody vine, which normally can grow to 9 meters in height. Stems are hollow, with many branches and the younger ones are densely covered by pubescence and glandular hairs. Leaves are opposite; petiole is 4 to 10cm long and densely pubescent; blade is papery, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 2.5 to 8cm long, 1 to 5.5cm wide, and with mucronate, gradually acute or obtuse apex, rounded or cordate base, and entire margin. Flowers are axillary in pair; pedicels are densely covered with pubescence and glandular hairs; peduncle grows usually in the twigs’ upper part axils. Berry is spherical, 6 to 7cm in diameter, and blue-black and shiny when ripe. Flowering time is from April to July and the fruiting time is from June to November.

Honeysuckle flower health benefits
Being one of 40 types of cultivated bulk medical herbs, Japanese honeysuckle now has become a household name. It is consumed mainly for the sake of health maintenance since it has long been considered as a good medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials. More importantly, unlike other cold-nature herbal medications honeysuckles won’t impair the function of stomach. That is also the reason why it is so popular in prevention and control of epidemic disease. What’s more, it is also widely used for the treatment of a variety of pyreticosis, such as fever, rash, measles, Carbuncle, sore throat, etc. All the above-mentioned effects have been well documented in "Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic" and "Compendium of Materia Medica". In 1980s, the State Ministry of Health in China ever conducted a chemical analysis for honeysuckle, and found that it contained a variety of essential trace elements, chemical composition, and many beneficial enzymes that could defy aging, fight cancer, and help weight loss.