Jin Yin Hua

"Gold Silver Flower"

Herbs that Clear Heat and Relieve Toxicity

 

 

Channels: LI, LU, ST

Properties: Sweet, Cold

Common: Honeysuckle Flower or Lonicera

Latin: Flos Lonicerae Japonicae

 

Acitions : 

  • Clears heat and reduces toxins: for fever and any type of hot boils, sores, or swellings, especially in the breast, eyes, and throat.
  • Expels pathogenic wind-heat: for common cold with fever, sore throat and headache also used in treating summerheat.
  • Expels damp-heat in the lower jiao: for diarrhea, dysentery, intestinal abscesses, or painful urination.

 

Contraindications:

  • Do not use in cases of diarrhea resulting from cold in the spleen and stomach. Also contraindicated in skin conditions with clear exudate.

 

Dosage:

  • 9-15g. Part used = flower bud. Prepared dry-fried to treat diarrhea.