Guizhou's endemic wild honeysuckle with high content grows in Suiyang County, a charming poetry town in China and a chili town in China, where the environment is beautiful and the climate is pleasant, with an average altitude of about 13m, which is the best altitude for honeysuckle growth. Original ecology, no pollution, high quality, its chlorogenic acid content is as high as 7.44%, far higher than the national standard of 1.5%, which is a national high-quality variety and a good choice for medicine and health care products. Suiyang has developed wild honeysuckle transplanting for more than 3 years. At present, the planting area of the county is nearly 2, mu, with an annual output of nearly 2 million Jin.
Flos lonicerae is one of the 7 precious Chinese herbal medicines identified in the State Council, which has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, dredging channels and collaterals, resisting bacteria and viruses, etc. More than 7% of cold medicines and anti-inflammatory Chinese herbal medicines contain Flos lonicerae, which is known as "Chinese medicine antibiotic" and "green antibiotic" and belongs to a plant with both medicine and food. Honeysuckle tea is fragrant, sweet and delicious, which is deeply loved by consumers and sells well in domestic and foreign markets. Efficacy: honeysuckle tea has the effects of relieving summer heat, sobering up, clearing brain, quenching thirst, clearing toxic substances in the body, reducing blood fat, losing weight, beautifying and cleaning skin, preventing cancer, preventing aging and prolonging life; Lowering blood pressure, lowering serum cholesterol, increasing coronary blood flow, and preventing coronary heart disease and cardiodynia; Inhibit the formation of cerebral thrombosis; Improve microcirculation, eliminate lipid peroxide deposition, improve human hypoxia tolerance, promote human metabolism, regulate human function, and improve immunity.
Suiyang honeysuckle has the characteristics of long flower strips, hard bone stubble, good color, pure texture, no miscellaneous branches, strong fragrance and so on. It is rich in more than 2 effective components such as chlorogenic acid and luteolin, and has high medicinal value. Its chlorogenic acid content is as high as 7.44%, ranking the highest in China. Up to now, the planting area of honeysuckle in Suiyang County has exceeded 11, mu, with an annual output of 2,84 tons and a comprehensive output value of 68.16 million yuan. Suiyang county has developed and launched more than 4 honeysuckle tea brands such as Jibang honeysuckle tea, and Lang Xiaoxiao and solid canned herbal tea have been put on the market.
A well-known brand is "_ _" brand honeysuckle tea, which is produced by Guizhou Yinhua Ecological Agriculture Comprehensive Development Co., Ltd. At present, it has two professional cooperatives of honeysuckle (locally called Shanyinhua), and has more than 1, mu of honeysuckle transplanting and planting base with an annual output of more than 1 million Jin. This tea is selected from the high-quality honeysuckle flower buds in Yinhua Village, Xiaoguan Township, Suiyang County at an altitude of 13-14 meters. It is scientifically processed, original and pollution-free, and it is really a good product for health care and gift.
quality and technical requirements of honeysuckle in Suiyang
I. provenance
LonicerajaponicaThunb.
ii. Site conditions
In the mountainous and hilly areas with an altitude of 6m to 18m within the range of origin, the soil types are loose and moist silt soil and yellow loam soil, with organic matter content ≥1% and soil pH value of 5. to 7.5.
3. Cultivation management
1. Propagation method: seed propagation or hardwood cutting propagation.
2. Transplantation: November to February of the following year. According to the plant spacing of 1m, the row spacing of 1.5m, and the hole depth of 25cm to 3cm, one plant is planted in each hole, and the number of basic seedlings per 667_ (mu) is 4 to 45.
3. fertilization: apply decomposed organic fertilizer ≥45kg every 667_ (mu) per year.
4. plastic pruning: it is divided into winter pruning and summer pruning, with summer pruning in the growing period and winter pruning from winter to March of the following year.
5. environmental and safety requirements: the use of pesticides and fertilizers must comply with relevant state regulations and must not pollute the environment.
iv. harvesting and processing
1. harvesting time: harvesting from mid-June to mid-July, with the increase of altitude, the harvesting time is delayed accordingly.
2. harvesting method: harvesting the bluish-white buds to be opened or the newly opened white flowers, and picking all the flower branches.
3. processing method:
(1) sun drying method: the collected flower buds are thinned and exposed to the sun, and turned while drying, and dried thoroughly.
(2) air drying method: put the picked buds in a drying tray, and put the drying tray indoors to dry in a cool, ventilated and dry place.
(3) frying method: put the picked flower buds into a clean scalding pot, then stir-fry them evenly until the flower buds wither evenly, and then take them out and dry them.
(4) steaming and drying method: spread the picked flower buds loosely on a steaming basket, put them in a steamer in layers, put them in a boiling water pot, steam for 3 to 5 minutes, and take them out to dry.
(5) Baking method: spread the picked buds in an oven, bake at 35℃ for 24 hours, then bake at 4℃ for 5 to 1 hours, continue to heat up, control the temperature at 45℃ to 5℃ for another 1 hours, and then raise the oven temperature to 55℃ to 6℃ to make the flowers dry quickly.
5. Quality characteristics
1. Sensory characteristics: the smell is fragrant, the surface is green-brown to yellow-white, the quality is slightly hard, the hand is slightly elastic, and the taste is light and slightly bitter. The total pedicels are clustered, and the corolla lobes of the openers are less than half of the total length. The bud is long and thin, rod-shaped, thick on the top and thin on the bottom, slightly curved.
2. Physical and chemical indexes: moisture content ≤12.%, total ash content ≤1.%, acid-insoluble ash content ≤3.%, chlorogenic acid content ≥5.% and luteolin content ≥.1%.
3. safety and other quality and technical requirements: product safety and other quality and technical requirements must comply with relevant national regulations.