1. Aliases

Golden Silver Vine, Two Flower Vine, Silver Flower Body, Egret Vine, Left Entangled Vine, Cold Enduring Grass, Tongling Grass, Honeysuckle Grass, Sweet Vine, Right Spinning Vine, and Thousand Golden Vine.
2. Plant morphology
Leaf climbing edge irrigation. The juvenile technique has dense soft and glandular hairs, with leaves that are wide, lanceolate to oval shaped, 3-8 centimeters long, and when thin, both sides are covered with hair. Flowers grow in pairs on leaves, bracts leaf like, with ciliate edges, calyx tube hairless, 5-lobed. The corolla is two lipped, 3-4 centimeters long, initially white with a hint of purple before turning yellow. It has an aroma and is covered with soft and glandular hairs on the outside. The upper lip has 4 lobes, standing upright, and the lower lip is inverted. Stamens 5, and style slightly longer than corolla. Berry, spherical, black. The flowering period is from June to August, and the fruiting period is from August to October.
3. Origin distribution
Born on mountain slopes through irrigation, sparse forests, rocky mounds, field ridges, and roadsides. Distributed in provinces such as Northeast, North China, South China, and Southeast.
4. Harvesting and processing
Harvest leafy vines in autumn and winter, tie them into small bundles, and dry them in the sun.
5. Characteristics of medicinal herbs
Long cylindrical, multi branched, often wrapped in bundles, with a surface brownish red to dark brown, and the outer skin easily peels off. The branches are full of knots. Crisp texture, yellow white cross-section, hollow.
6. Nature, taste, and meridian tropism
Cold in nature, sweet in taste. Return to the lung meridian and stomach meridian.
7. Effect and function
Clear heat and detoxify, disperse wind and clear collaterals. A heat clearing and detoxifying medicine belonging to the subcategory of heat clearing drugs.
8. Clinical applications
Dosage: 9-30 grams, decoct in water. Used to treat warm diseases such as fever, heat toxic dysentery, abscess, rheumatic fever, joint redness, swelling, and pain.
9. Pharmacological research
Antimicrobial activity against pathogens: In vitro experiments have shown that the water extract of Lonicera japonica has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus. Its water decoction (1:40) can delay cellular damage caused by orphan viruses. It also has an inhibitory effect on Leptospira.
10. Chemical composition
Stems and vines contain chlorogenic acid and isochlorogenic acid. The above ground part contains loganin, secologanin dimethylacetal, vogeloside, epi vogeloside, hederagenin-3-O-alpha-L-arbinopyranoside, and ivy saponin-3-O-alpha-L-arbinopyranoside. Glycosides [hederagin-3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1-2) - α - L-arabinopyranoside], ivy saponin-3-O-alpha-L-pyranosyl-28-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1-6) - β - D-glucopyranoside [hederagin-3-O-alpha-L-arabinopyranosyl-28-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl (1-6) - β - D-glucopyranoside].
11. Taboos for use
Prohibited for those with spleen and stomach deficiency cold and persistent diarrhea.
12. Compatibility prescription
① Treating carbuncle, intestinal abscess, milk abscess, unknown swelling and toxin, causing pain, hating cold and strengthening heat, similar to typhoid fever: five liang each of Lonicera japonica (removing stems) and Astragalus membranaceus (removing reeds), one liang and two liang each of Angelica sinensis, and eight liang of licorice (roasting). The upper part is fine powder, which costs two yuan per serving. One and a half cups of wine are served and fried until one is served. If sick, take it after taking food, and take it before taking food. Take a few moments to take the second coat and apply the residue externally. Those who have not yet formed pus will dissipate internally, while those who have already formed pus will collapse. (The divine effect of Tori San in "Jufang")
② Treatment of muscle and bone pain: Crush the egret vine into fine powder, take two coins per serving, and mix with hot wine. If only filing, use papaya, white peony, osmanthus officinale, Angelica sinensis, and licorice in one place, half a cup of wine and half a cup of water, fry until 80%, remove impurities, and heat up before hollow eating to effectively treat athlete's foot. ("Walking on the Cliff Grass")
③ After treating thirst and healing, it is advisable to take this medicine first to prevent carbuncle and necrosis. You can use the roots, stems, flowers, and leaves of Lonicera japonica, regardless of the amount. Put it in a bottle, soak it in ashless good wine, simmer it with bran fire for a night, take it out and dry it in the sun. Grind a small amount of licorice into fine powder, and use soaked medicinal wine to make a batter. The size of the pill is as large as a wuzi. Take 50 to 100 pills each, and let the soup and wine go. This medicine does not specifically treat carbuncle and gangrene, but can greatly quench thirst. (Synopsis of Surgery - Honeysuckle Pills)
④ Cure evil sores without healing: Take a handful of left tangled vines. Crush, add five parts of realgar, two liters of water, fry in a clay jar, seal seven times with paper, pierce a hole, wait for the gas to escape, and smoke the hole with sores for three hours. After producing a large amount of yellow water, take effect with a muscle building medicine. It also treats mild powdery carbuncle. (The Puji Prescription cites "Yu Jushi's Selection of Strange Prescriptions")
⑤ To treat all kinds of swelling and pain, wounds caused by golden blades, and ulcers: four taels of golden and silver vines, three coins of suction iron stones, one pound of fragrant oil, boil to remove the dregs, add eight taels of yellow elixir, and wait until the drops of water do not disperse, then spread and use as usual. (The Compendium of Materia Medica cites the Honeysuckle Cream from "Qiankun Secret Yun")
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