Magical Detoxifying honeysuckle
    In Chongning period of Song Dynasty, natural disaster constant year after year, the people had no means of livelihood. The Buddhist monks, in Baiyun Temple on Tianping mountain of Suzhou, begged alms but could get nothing, so they had to live on potherbs. One day, they were very glad to find some beautiful mushrooms in the withered wood mountain stream, climbed up the withered tree and picked them. Got back to the temple, they boiled the mushrooms and tasted very delicious. But when it was midnight the monks unexpectedly felt angina in the belly, mouthfuls of saliva, vomit again and again, dizzy, unable all over, critically ill. They had no way of treating except awaiting doom.Among them, one monk over-40-year-old remembered, at that time of the last year, a young monk caught a heavy poisonous sore on the back and had no medicine to cure. Later, a visiting monk saw it and pulled out some mandarin duck grass outside temple, cleaned and pounded to pieces applied at the affected part. Five days later, the monk got better miraculously. Since mandarin duck grass could cure malicious sore, could it detoxify fungus poison? Thinking of  this, the monk stood up, doddered out of temple, found some mandarin duck grass among miscellaneous grass. After chewing the grass with root and leaf, he felt better, the pain lightened, vomit reduced too. He returned to the temple in a hurry and asked the other monks to eat. Four monks followed him and survived. The others wouldn't chew the grass for its flavor of medical herbs and all died. From then on,  when someone got poisoned by malicious mushroom, the monks would cure them with mandarin duck grass.  Li Shizhen, pharmacy expert of Ming Dynasty, adopted the recipe in "Compendium of Materia Medica".  
    Mandarin duck grass is the whole grass of honeysuckle belonging to honeysuckle evergreen shrub.  Honeysuckle has a fruit and 2 flowers, a yellow one and a white one, looks like gold and silver. They are in pairs, just like mandarin ducks, so it is called "mandarin duck rattan", "mandarin duck grass", "two treasure flowers", "a pair of flowers". Honeysuckle can clear fever, detoxify, detumescence and make eyes brighter, evacuate chill, etc. It can cure hot poisonous swollen disease, ache subcutaneous ulcer, hot warm disease, blood dysentery, haemorrhoids, throat aching etc. can cure fever caused by internal hot or external infection, treat japanese b encephailtis and epidemic encephalitis after boiled. Honeysuckle can assist to treat appendicitis and ligated ulceration. In hot summer, honeysuckle boiled with white chrysanthemum, sugar and water can loose heat, solve hot, sterilize and brighten eyes. For moistening throat, as beverage, it can prevent children measles, sore furuncle, etc. The old often drinking it can prolong life, cure deficiency. In recent years, honeysuckle has been made into series of health care beverage such as honeysuckle tea, silver flower crystal, silver flower dew, silver flower wine that have been launched and well received. 
    
    The honeysuckle has health care worth and medicinal value  Main uses---- clear hot, detoxify, empty worries, make eyes brighter, promote longevity and health care function. Main products are Yinmai Beer, honeysuckle toilet soap, honeysuckle perfume, honeysuckle toothpaste, silver flower beverage, honeysuckle cosmetic, honeysuckle health care tea, spices that are welcomed deeply by people. Among them, honeysuckle health care tea, developed in Luiyu Town, has been acted as sole agent by Australian Mike Company. Honeysuckle becomes famous extensively used medicinal material because of chlorogenic acid, the main composition of antibacterial diminish inflammation. Some products, like Yinhuang oral liquid, Mailuoning injection, Qingkailing injection, double Chinese goldthread oral liquid silver yellow oral liquid, contain honeysuckle as their main composition. With enhancement of people's health care consciousness, honeysuckle demand will be more and more heavier and developing honeysuckle will have a wide prospect. 

With high economic benefit，
With very high economic benefit, the function of medicine and health care of honeysuckle is waiting for  developing and utilizing. As famous and precious traditional Chinese medicine, honeysuckle had been known by our ancestor as early as 2,000 years ago. It was ranked as top grade medicine in "Shennong Herb Classics" and recorded the function of detumescence in "Well-known Doctors Record". Li Shizhen said, in "Compendium of Materia Medica", "honeysuckle can cure rheumatism, malicious swollen, acariasis, and detoxify" and drew the conclusion that the leaves and flowers had the same function and prolong people's longevity if often had them.

 Honeysuckle can be separately be medicine or dosage with others. Pills, taking orally and external application bring good curative effect. The book named "Imperial Dimly Record" recorded life of Cixi. There was a description of honeysuckle moistening skin:" With toilet soap and clean water, Cixi washed off the egg white on her face and put some liquid juice"( honeysuckle distilled liquid).“ It is said that the liquid has high astringency, it made the tight skin loose and wouldn't expand again. Mao Zedong had said that honeysuckle, seed of boat-fruited sterculia were very beneficial to the throat. Along with the development of medicinal science and technology, people have further understanding of honeysuckle. In addition, honeysuckle flower contains inositol, soap glucoside, volatile oil, flavone, etc. Its leaves contain tannide, honeysuckle glucoside, wooden soft-shelled turtle glucoside, lilac glucoside and honeysuckle flavin etc. Its stem and stem peel contains mignonette flavin, soap glucoside and pure fibrin, etc. Its fruits contain reducing sugar. Modern medical researches proved that honeysuckle can restrain fungus, such as streptococcus, staphylococcus, typhoid bacillus, dysentery bacillus, coliform bacteria, green suppuration bacillus, pneumonia diplococcus, whooping bacillus, meningitis coccus ,etc. It has certain curative effect to flu and inflammation. According to the investigation, one-third of the Chinese medicine prescriptions use honeysuckle. Honeysuckle boiled with forsythia, isatis leaf, reed rhizome, licorice root and water can prevent "japanese b encephailtis" and "epidemic meningitis". Honeysuckle calyx, a kind of parasitic seedling, is good medicine to treat throat abscess. The changes of food structure and improvement of the living standard, the uses of the honeysuckle will be wider and wider. It's developing from medicine to foods, beverage and daily-use chemical industry, etc. Tea made with honeysuckle smells fragrant, cleans heart, breathes comfortably, defends administration and lowers the temperature. Honeysuckle series products, such as honeysuckle dew, honeysuckle toothpaste, honeysuckle medicine, cigarettes come out one after another. Using its stem, leaves, and flower of honeysuckle as main material, Nanjing Wide Plant Researching Institute with Sino-foreign Joint Venture Pingyi Health Care Instrument Co., Ltd. produced honeysuckle wine and Zhonghua toothpaste. The products were advertised in Chinese Central Television and well received by consumers and sell well in home and abroad. Especially in Southeast Asia countries, people regard honeysuckle as treasure. Japanese make honeysuckle gift for relatives and friends, presenting lucky and money. Clients from U.S.A., Japan, Romania, Australia came to Pingyi to observe honeysuckle for many times. They strived to be the first to order goods. The export transfer exchange rate is very high and the demands are large. It will have  a good prospect in international market after China joins WTO. So developing honeysuckle will benefit the nation and enrich the people. 
    In Pingyi county, many villagers got rich by planting honeysuckle. Planting honeysuckle in each mu (0.17 acre) only need to invest about 500 yuan (used for seeds, pesticide, chemical fertilizer and labor cost) and can get more than 150 kilograms of dried flowers, worth 6000 yuan in1999. Pingyi locates in mountain area with no industrial projects and each person only has a half mu (0.08 acre). But you can see buildings, warehouse, shops, hotels everywhere, demonstrating the economic liftoff, prosperous scene. Honeysuckle planting has been the leader industry for agricultural development. Menghua No. 1, cultivated and popularized by Pingyi Excellent Honeysuckle Seeds Popularization Center, improved the output and quality economic benefits.