Honeysuckle is a traditional herbal medicine in China, which can be found in many provinces of China. Honeysuckle originates in China and has been using as medicine over 1500 years. In Ming dynasty, it was included into BenCao GangMu (Compendium of Materia Medica) by Li Shizhen.
Honeysuckle boasts many therapeutic effects, such as Antibacterial function, anti-inflammatory, antifebrile action, reducing blood lipid, diuretic function and toxin-expelling function. It can be used to prevent Cancer and B encephalitis. Its detoxifying function is very effective. There are many tales about its functions and its original name.
In the time of three kingdoms, Zhuge Liang, the premier of Shu kingdom, once lead his army to fight against Meng Huo, a leader of local group in the deep mountains and forests. The soldiers in his army suffered from severe miasma, a poisonous air. When they passed by a small village, he saw many malnourished villagers because of the lack of food. Sympathizing with the miserable conditions of those people, he donated the army provisions to save them. All villagers are grateful to the army. In the crowd, a local grandpa found them in the disease and asked his two daughters, Jin Hua and Yin Hua (golden flower and silver flower) to fetch some herbs in the mountains. However, those two girls never came back but were found dismembered by wolves besides a basket of herbs. The herb saved the lives of the soldiers but the two girls were dead. In order to remember them, the people called this kind of herb, Jin Yin hua (golden and silver flower) which is the Chinese name of Honeysuckle.
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