Jingxi Honeysuckle

Jingxi Honeysuckle

　　Jingxi honeysuckle is a renowned specialty product of Jingxi County, Baise City, Guangxi.

　　Production Area

　　It is produced across the mountainous areas within Jingxi County, Baise City, Guangxi, with higher yields found in towns such as Yuewei, Ande, Longlin, Kuixu, Longbang, and Ludong.

　　Honeysuckle Cultivation Base

　　Production Environment

　　Jingxi County features a subtropical monsoon climate, with no intense heat in summer and no severe cold in winter. The annual average temperature is 19.1°C, earning it the nickname “Little Kunming” for its climate. The favorable natural conditions are highly conducive to the growth of honeysuckle.

　　Product Characteristics

　　Honeysuckle, also known as Lonicera japonica, is an evergreen, vining shrub belonging to the Caprifoliaceae family. Its entire plant is densely covered with brown soft hairs, and it has opposite-growing elliptical leaves that remain green throughout winter—hence the name “winter enduring.” Originally wild, it has in recent years been cultivated artificially. Both the flowers and stems are used medicinally. The plant blooms from February to March, bearing white tubular, labiate flowers that later turn yellow and emit a fragrance, hence the name “gold-silver flower.” The flower buds, just before blooming, are harvested, fumigated with sulfur, and dried in the sun to produce the final product.

　　Nutritional Benefits and Efficacy

　　Honeysuckle is mainly used to treat wind-heat type colds, fever, rashes, sore throat, heat-toxin dysentery, boils, abscesses, and other conditions. As recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: “Honeysuckle can cure all types of rheumatism and swellings, carbuncles, scabies, syphilitic sores, and other malignant ulcers, as well as clear heat and detoxify.” The vines of honeysuckle have similar efficacy to the flowers, additionally clearing wind-heat from the meridians and relieving meridian pain. The distilled essence of the flowers and leaves makes for a premium heat-clearing and detoxifying beverage.