How to choose honeysuckle? Can honeysuckle and Sterculia lychnophora be taken together?

After being soaked in water, honeysuckle tea is golden yellow with green, bright in color, and slightly bitter with fragrance. Drinking honeysuckle, puffed sea, and chrysanthemum in water can relieve internal heat, clear away heat, and detoxify. It is beneficial for chronic pharyngitis, opening the throat, clearing heat and moistening the lungs. Let's take a look at whether honeysuckle and puffed sea can be drunk together and how to choose honeysuckle.

Contents of this article

1. How to choose honeysuckle

2. Can honeysuckle and Sterculia lychnophora be taken together?

3. Can babies drink honeysuckle when they have internal heat?

How to choose honeysuckle

The best time to pick honeysuckle tea is before the flowers bloom, when the upper part of the buds swells and turns white. If picked too early, the buds are not yet mature and the nutrients are not fully formed. If picked too late, the flowers bloom too much and too many nutrients are lost. Therefore, when choosing honeysuckle tea, it is best to choose swollen, unopened buds. The first-class ones are those with no more than 5% open flowers, broken buds and yellow stripes.

When selecting honeysuckle, you need to pay attention to the color of the flower, impurities, and whether it is insect-eaten or mildewed. Honeysuckle without black stripes, black heads, branches and leaves, impurities, insect-eaten or mildewed is the best.

High-quality honeysuckle has a fresh fragrance, while poor-quality or improperly stored and moldy honeysuckle has no fragrance, and sometimes even smells damp and moldy. In addition, some businesses use sulfur fumigation to prevent insects from growing on honeysuckle. Honeysuckle that smells pungent when you get close to it is mostly fumigated with sulfur, so try not to buy it.

Most of the honeysuckle flowers sold in the market are dried products. Choose the ones with thick and slightly hard corollas, dry and non-sticky when held, and with a top feel. Adulterated and inferior products are mostly made by spraying sugar water on the genuine products and mixing them with flour and other impurities to increase the weight. They may look similar in appearance, but the flower buds are sticky or even moldy and discolored. If you turn them over gently, you will find that small particles fall off.

After being steeped in water, high-quality honeysuckle tea is bright in color with a hint of green and a slightly bitter and fragrant taste. However, low-quality honeysuckle tea is darker in color, sometimes brownish black, and tastes sour, mostly due to sulfur fumigation.

Can honeysuckle and Sterculia lychnophora be taken together?

Nutritionists say honeysuckle and puffed tamarind can be drunk together to treat pharyngitis or tonsil infection. Drinking honeysuckle, puffed tamarind and chrysanthemum in water can relieve internal heat, clear away heat and detoxify, and is beneficial for chronic pharyngitis, clearing heat and moistening the lungs.

Can babies drink honeysuckle when they have internal heat?

Honeysuckle is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, dispersing wind and heat, and has a certain effect on getting angry. Honeysuckle tea is cold in nature, so people with weak spleen and stomach should not take it. If breastfeeding women take it, it will also affect the baby and may cause diarrhea in the baby, so try not to take it, or drink less, drink more water, and eat more fresh fruits and vegetables~