Honeysuckle (Lonicera Japonica) Cut & Sifted Flowers

Description ShareTweetPinLinkedInPrintEmail Honeysuckle (Lonicera Japonica) Cut & Sifted Flowers HERB COMMON NAME :  Honeysuckle HERB SCIENTIFIC NAME :  Lonicera Japonica OTHER NAMES :  Woodbine, Italian Woodbine, Dutch Honeysuckle, Goat’s Leaf, Hedge-Tree, Chin Yin Hua, Chin Yin T’Eng, Japanese Honeysuckle, Jen Tung, Jen Tung Chiu, Jen Tung Kao, Sui-Kazura, Yin Hua, Hall’s Honeysuckle, White Honeysuckle, Chinese Honeysuckle, Halliana FAMILY :  Caprifoliaceae ASSOCIATIONS & CORRESPONDENCES : Element: Earth Planet: Jupiter Day: Thursday Direction: North Zodiac Sign: Aries Chakra: 6th Third Eye Chakra (Ajna), 7th Crown Chakra (Sahasrara) Energy: Yang Gender: Masculine Ogham: Eabhadh, Uileann Tarot: Justice, Tower Animal: Hummingbird, Bees Sabbat or Holiday: Beltane / May Day / Walpurgis (April 30 – May 1) ; Ostara / the Spring Equinox (btw. March 19-23) Deity or God / Goddess Association: Cerridwen, Gaia, the Morrigan, Venus   Parts Used:  Flowers Description:  Honeysuckle has been used extensively in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Japanese Honeysuckle herb shows promise in studies for its healthful benefits. Honeysuckle is a sustainable alternative to Goldenseal as they have many of the same properties and uses. The most impressive benefits of honeysuckle flower tea include preventing infections, improving digestion, regulating blood sugar levels, reducing inflammation, and treating cold and flu.  People use honeysuckle for indigestion, bacterial and viral infections, memory, diabetes, and many other conditions. Traditional Eastern Herbalism recommends using the herb for upper respiratory tract infections (including pneumonia and tuberculosis) because of its lung supporting benefits. Those with asthma often use honeysuckle to soothe and clear the airways. A decoction (covering with water and simmering) of Honeysuckle stems is used to help acute rheumatoid arthritis, mumps and hepatitis. Honeysuckle stems, leaves and flowers are used together as an herbal infusion for dysentery. Honeysuckle flower buds stems and leaves can be used alone or with other herbs such as Violets, Mullein or Plantain to make a cough syrup or soothing herbal tea for colds. An infusion of the flower buds has historically been used for a wide range of ailments including syphillitic skin diseases and tumors, and enteritis. Experimentally, the flower extracts have been shown to lower blood cholesterol levels.  Honeysuckle is also used to reduce blood pressure. Externally, the flowers are applied as an herbal wash to skin inflammations, infectious rashes and sores. Honeysuckle can be invasive if not kept under control, and thus there is no need for cultivating it. If you want Honeysuckle for herbal use, there are plenty of landowners and nature organizations that will be glad to have you remove it from their property. Make sure it has not been exposed to pollution or chemical spraying before you agree to help eradicate it. Historical Uses:  alterative, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, inflammation, antispasmodic, muscle spasms, depurative, diuretic, febrifuge, bacterial infection, viral infection, respiratory infection, bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, digestion, indigestion, regulate blood sugar, cold, flu, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, mumps, hepatitis, dysentery, cough, syphilis, enteritis, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, skin rash, sores Mystical Attributes:  The name honeysuckle comes from the tradition of children biting off the ends of the flowers to enjoy the drops of nectar inside. Although the flowers are small, their scent when fresh is voluptuous. These dried buds have a pleasant summery aroma. The vines of the honeysuckle plant may symbolically twined together to bind two lovers to ensure fidelity and desire for each other. Honeysuckle brought into a home will help ensure a good marriage for the people who live there. Create a wreath of the flowering vines to encircle green money-drawing candles to increase their effectiveness. Burn honeysuckle to support any money drawing spell. Or place the flowers in a vase in the house for the same purpose. Grow honeysuckle near your home to attract love, luck and wealth and to protect your garden from negative influences. Honeysuckle is said to help the user distinguish between a person’s genuineness or falsity. The scent of honeysuckle is said to clear the mind, stimulate psychic powers, sharpen intuition, encourage psychic dreams, sweeten any mood and stimulate generosity. Rub a lightly crushed flower on the forehead to increase psychic abilities. A honeysuckle plant grown outside near the home will bring good luck. If it grows over the door, it will protect the household from fevers. Mystical Intentions:  maiden work, love spells, affection, attraction, binding, fidelity, loyalty, marriage, happiness, friendship, ease sorrow, generosity, honesty, finding the truth, luck, money, prosperity, wealth, fortune, gardening, clear the mind, awareness, balance, calm, peace, harmony, spiritual healing, mental clarity, focus, psychic ability, intuition, dream work, visions, clairvoyance, divination, protection from illness, breaking curses and hexes, angel magic, wish making Other Uses: Ground cover Insecticide Basketry Vines are used to make baskets Saponins in Japanese honeysuckle are toxic to some creatures, such as fish, and hunting tribes have traditionally put large quantities of them in streams, lakes etc. in order to stupefy or kill the fish.   Taste & Smell:  The sweet jasmine-like with a tinge of vanilla scent of honeysuckle flowers is strongest in the evening. Honeysuckle flowers have a slightly sweet and honey-like flavor, with a hint of earthy floral. Botany, Cultivation & Harvesting:  Japanese Honeysuckle is a perennial herb Native to East Asia (China, Japan, Korea). It is now naturalized in Britain and the United States, from southern New York and New Jersey to southern Florida, and west to southwestern Texas. Inland it is distributed from Pennsylvania and West Virginia to Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. In the eastern and southern United States, Japanese honeysuckle is an important white-tailed deer food and is often invasive. Japanese Honeysuckle is a climbing vine or shrub. It has a dense root system that may extend laterally for a distance of 7 to 10 feet, and attain depths of 3 to 4 feet. The simple, opposite, pinnate leaves are oval to oblong in shape and are semi-evergreen and may persist on vines year-round, up to 3 inches in length. Japanese Honeysuckle flowers range from 1 to 2 inches in length and are white with a slight purple or pink tinge when young, changing to white or yellow with age. The plant flowers in June, and the flowers are edible. The extremely fragrant, two-lipped flowers are borne in pairs in the axils of young branches and are produced throughout the summer. The fruit is a black, berrylike drupe with three to five one-seeded stones. The fruit is ripe in August and is NOT edible. Japanese Honeysuckle prefers partial shade to full sun and moist soil. Honeysuckle stems are harvested in the autumn and winter. The flowers are harvested in early morning before they open. The herb is dried for later use. Prune back hard in winter to prevent the build-up of woody growth, provide a trellis. Constituents: calcium elaidic-acid hcn inositol linoleic-acid lonicerin luteolin magnesium myristic-acid potassium tannin zinc     Sources: https://spiritartsandherbs.com/sources **IMPORTANT INFORMATON: Products are sold as curio items for entertainment purposes only and based upon historical and magical uses.  We do not imply or guarantee that any items provide specific abilities, powers, outcomes, remedies, or treatments. Any information provided on listings or through private conversation is intended for educational purposes only and are based on historical folklore and traditions, and should not replace the advice of a physician. Use our products at your own risk. By purchasing this item, you understand and release Spirit Arts & Herbs Inc from any liability. No items we sell are for internal use and should never be ingested for any reason. Some may also not be safe for topical application, or even be safe to touch while unprotected. 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