It is a herb of Mercury, and appropriated to the lungs; the celestial Crab claims dominion over it, neither is it a foe to the Lion; if the lungs be afflicted by Jupiter, this is your cure. It is fitting a conserve made of the flowers should be kept in every gentlewoman's house; I know no better cure for the asthma than this besides it takes away the evil of the spleen: provokes urine, procures speedy delivery of women in travail, relieves cramps, convulsions, and palsies, and whatsoever griefs come of cold or obstructed perspiration; if you make use of it as an ointment, it will clear the skin of morphew, freckles, and sun-burnings, or whatever else discolours it, and then the maids will love it.
Authors say, the flowers are of more effect than the leaves, and that is true: but they say the seeds are the least effectual of all. But there is a vital spirit in every seed to beget its like; there is a greater heat in the seed than any other part of the plant; and heat is the mother of action.'
GERARD SAYS: 'The Honeysuckle is "neither cold nor binding, but hot and attenuating or making thin." ' He quotes Dioscorides as saying that, 'the ripe seed gathered and dried in the shadow and drunk for four days together, doth waste and consume away the hardness of the spleen and removeth wearisomeness, helpeth the shortness and difficulty of breathing, cureth the hicket (hiccough), etc. A syrup made of the flowers is good to be drunk against diseases of the lungs and spleen.' He also recommends it for sores in various parts of the alimentary canal.
THE TECHNICAL INFORMATION FROM A MODERN HERBAL BY GRIEVE IS AS FOLLOWS: Our native Honeysuckle has expectorant and laxative properties. The flowers in the form of syrup have been used for diseases of the respiratory organs and in asthma and the leaves as decoction in diseases of the liver and spleen. It was also considered a good ingredient in gargles". "a native of Siberia, an upright species, a shrub, not a climber, has berries which are nauseously bitter and purgative. The wood of". "native of Eastern Europe and Asia, but found naturalized in Sussex, also of shrub-like nature, is used by the Russians to prepare an empyrheumatic oil for 'cold tumours and chronic pains.' It is sold in China as Jin -"Animals seldom touch the leaves of this species and birds eat its berries only in hard weather - they are reputed to be purgative and emetic". brachypoda "is used in Japan as a drastic purgative, and "japonica is sold in China as"-yin-"the Bush Honeysuckle, especially" (L. Diervilla, Linn.) , has a similar repute, especially as a diuretic and as an application to relieve itching. Various species of "Snow-berry, Wax-berry, Coral-berry, Indian Currant, Turkey-berry, Wolf-berry, to give a few of its names, of North America, are similarly employed". "is often planted in hedges.
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