Lonicera Caprifolium. Lonicera Japonica in flowering buds. Lonicera Japonica Plant

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1 Lonicera Caprifolium Lonicera Japonica Plant Lonicera Japonica in flowering buds CAMPO COSMETICS (S) PTE LTD Level 31, 6 Battery Road Singapore Tel: (65) Fax: (65) natcolors_preserve@yahoo.com Web site: http// CAMPO Multi-Purpose Cosmetic Base Chemicals & Active Ingredients CAMPO Novel Functional Active Cosmetic Ingredients and Raw-Materials

2 JAPANESE HOHEYSUCKLE (GOLD-SILVER FLOWER, JINYINHUA) There lived a young couple in a small village with two twin girls: one was named Golden Flower and other Silver Flower. The Twin girls, who had always loved each other, grew up to be very close and had promised each other that they would never get married and would never separate from each other. Not long after they had passed their seventeenth birthdays, Golden Flower suddenly fell ill, with a high fever and red sports all over her body. This is a contagious disease and there is no cure for it. Everybody should keep away from the patient, warned the doctor who made the diagnosis. But Silver Flower insisted on staying closed to her sister no matter what, and nobody could convince her otherwise. However, the doctor was right, it was indeed a contagious disease, as the twin sisters died a few days later and was buried together. In the spring of the following year, all kinds of plants were growing all over the graveyard, but nothing grew on the graves of the twin sisters, except for one plant with an abundance of yellow and white flowers. People in the village were very curious about this strange phenomenon, and some were even convinced that the twin sisters had turned into the flowers. At the time when the plant was in full blossom, two little twin girls in the village fell ill with high fever and red spots all over their bodies - with exactly the same disease that killed Golden Flower and Silver Flower. The parents called on the same doctor to treat their little girls and the doctor gave the same diagnosis. Although they were told that there was no cure for the disease, the parents went ahead and picked the flowers that grew on the graves of the two deceased sisters and decocted them for their daughters to drink. The two little girls soon recovered from their illness to enjoy their happiness once again. The people in the village named the herb after the deceased twin sisters calling it goldsilver flower.

3 Lonicera Japonica Plant Lonicera Japonica in flowering buds

4 JAPANESE HOHEYSUCKLE LONICERA JAPONICA (GOLD-SILVER FLOWER, JINYINHUA) Jinyinha or Lonicera Japonica comes from the Caprifoliaceae family. The plant has white or purplish flowers, which grow in pairs with yellow or golden ones. Lonicera from Lonicera Japonica, the scientific name for Jinyinhua Lonicera from Lonicera Japonica, the scientific name for Jinyinhua is named in honour of Adam Lonicer ( ) a German physician and naturalist. The common name, honey suckle, was given in the mistaken belief that bees obtained honey from the flowers. In ancient Greece, the plant was an object of religious worship. European herbalists used to squeeze the juice from the plant to treat snakebites. The seeds and flowers, boiled and mixed with oil, are applied to swellings. The flowers are still being used as a cure for asthma.. Li Shin-Chen gives a good description of this Chinese honey suckle or woodbine. The first Chinese name refers to the plant not withering during the winter, and the second to the fact that the flowers, which are at first white afterwards become yellow, and as they do not fall early, the plant bears both colors at the same time. The flowers, vine and leaves are employed in medicine. Prolonged use is said to increase vitality and to lengthen life. Antifebrile, corrective, and astringent properties are ascribed, and it is used in the treatment of all sorts of infections and poisons. A wine (Jeu-tung-chin) and a plaster (Jeu-tung -kao) are official. The dried flowers in the Chinese medicine shops have a smell resembling that of some kind of tobacco. The flowers are sweet in flavour and emit cold energy attributive to the lung, stomach and large intestine channels. The flower buds - the part most commonly used - and rounds at the upper end and narrow at the base. The jinyinhua can reduce excessive heat in the body, counteract toxins, cool down the blood and disperse wind in the body. Thus, it is often prescribed for carbuncles, dysentery and sore or swollen throats Reports on the leaves is being poisonous has been controversial. Some pharmacological studies have actually shown that the herb can increase as well as reduce blood sugar content, and have antitumour, antibacterial and antifungal properties. Experiments have shown Jinyinhua has certain attributes, which make it an effective treatment in five major areas: protecting the liver, inhibiting influenza and mumps, reducing blood fat and fighting bacteria. In addition, since this herb contains lonicerin, saponin, and inositol, and has been found to possess antibacterial and antiviral effects, it is now being widely used to treat the common cold, influenza, cystitis, arthritis eye and throat infections, and contagious hepatitis.

5 Chinese : Jinyinhua (Gold - Silver Flower) Re : 2894 Common name : Japanese honey -suckle. Family : Caprifoliaceae. Chinese name : Gold-silver-flower (so named because it has both colors.) Scientific names : Lonicera japonica Thunb, Lonicera hypoglauca miq. Lonicera : Confusa Dc.,Lonicera Caprifolium and Lonicera dasystyle Rehd. Pharmaceutical name : Flos Lonicerae. Part used : Buds. Dosage : 12g. Flavor : Sweet. Energy : Cold Class : 2, herbs to reduce excessive heat inside the body. Meridians : Lungs, stomach, heart, and spleen. Actions : To clear up heat counteract toxic effects, cool down the blood, and disperse wind the heat. Indications : Carbuncles, dysentery, and sore throat with swelling. Notes : Experiments have shown that jinyinhua can Produce five major effects: It can (1) Protect the Liver (2) Inhibits influenza (3) Inhibit mumps (4) Reduce blood fat (5) Be used as an Antibacterial herb BIBLIOGRAPHY: Anti inflammatory effect of Lonicera Japonica in proteinase-activated receptor 2-medicated paw edema. Jin Tae, Seung-Woo Han, Jae-Young Yoo, Jin-A Kim, Ok-Seon Baek, Jong-Pil Lim, Dae-Ki Kim, Young-Ho Kim, Ki-Hwan Bae and Young-Mi Lee. Clinica Chimica Acta Volume 330, Issues 1-2, April 2003, Pages Hong Kong s Herbal Renaissance. A Return. Jeffery Lagain. Life Extension magazine. February An update on natural preservatives. Dweck A.C. Personal Care. September 2005 Qualitative and quantitative analysis of active flavanoids in Flos Lonicera by capillary zone electrophoresis coupled with solid-phase extraction. Jun Chen, Song-Lin Li, Ping Li, Yue Song, Xing-Yun Chai, Ding-Yuan Ma.

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