{"id":927,"date":"2012-11-12T22:08:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T22:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=927"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:31:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T16:31:54","slug":"honeysuckle-lonicera-caprifolium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Honeysuckle ~ Lonicera caprifolium"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bosland.fr\/catalogue\/photo\/Lonicera_caprifolium_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"252\" \/>Honeysuckle<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: Lonicera caprifolium<\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Caprifoliaceae<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: flowers (mainly), leaves, seeds, juice, bark<\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: widespread in temperate zones<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: volatile oils (inalool and jasmone), tannins, salicylic acid, luteolin, inositol<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: bitter, sweet, cool, affinity for upper body<\/p>\n<p><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: expectorant, laxative, diaphoretic; fruit: emetic, cathartic; juice: purgative; leaves and flowers: cold and flu, fever, antispasmodic, emollient<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>: seeds: diuretic<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: colitis, decocted leaves: nervous asthma; distilled flower water: nervous headache, bark: gout, kidney stones, liver problems; flowers: coughs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: GI sores, cramps, convulsions, palsies, sunburns, skin blemishes, childbirth, abscesses, breast inflammation, sores, dysentery<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: stem\/flower bud decoction: 15-30 g\/600 ml water; ointment; pwd seeds: dose unknown; flower infusion: 1 tsp\/cup water tid, 30-60 grams (Khalsa); tincture: 5 ml tid<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: none known<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: Wren, R.C. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Potter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations<\/span>; http:\/\/www.herbs2000.com\/herbs\/herbs_honeysuckle.htm; http:\/\/plantsdatabase.com\/go\/1640\/; http:\/\/plants.gardenbed.com\/39\/3864_med.asp; http:\/\/www.nature1.org\/h\/honeys31.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honeysuckle Latin name: Lonicera caprifolium Family: Caprifoliaceae Part used: flowers (mainly), leaves, seeds, juice, bark Habitat: widespread in temperate zones Main constituents: volatile oils (inalool and jasmone), tannins, salicylic acid, luteolin, inositol Energetics: bitter, sweet, cool, affinity for upper body Main herbal actions: expectorant, laxative, diaphoretic; fruit: emetic, cathartic; juice: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268,70,39,171,3,269,267,136,95,96,48,36,71,20,273,49,274,270,271,116,78,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affinity-for-upper-body","category-antispasmodic","category-bitter","category-cathartic","category-chinese-herbs","category-colitis","category-cool","category-cough","category-diaphoretic","category-emetic","category-emollient","category-energetics-taste","category-expectorant","category-health-conditions","category-kidney-stones","category-laxative","category-liver-problems","category-nervous-asthma","category-nervous-headache","category-purgative","category-sweet","category-the-way-of-chinese-herbs","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}