LONICERA JAPONICA.—(Jên-tung), 555, (Chin-yin-t‘êng), 162-165. Li Shih-chên gives a good description of this Chinese honeysuckle, or woodbine. The first Chinese name refers to the plant not withering during the winter, and the second to the fact that the flowers, which are at first white, afterwards become yellow, and as they do not fall early, the plant bears both colors at the same time. The flowers, vine, and leaves are employed in medicine. Prolonged use is said to increase vitality and to lengthen life. Antifebrile, corrective, and astringent properties are ascribed, and it is used in the treatment of all sorts of infections and poisons. A wine (Jên-tung-chiu) and a plaster (Jên-tung-kao) are officinal. The dried flowers in the Chinese medicine shops have a smell resembling that of some kinds of tobacco.
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