How to take honeysuckle properly

The correct way to take honeysuckle is to take 6g~15g and decoct with water. The parts of honeysuckle that are used in medicine are the first blooming flowers or dried flower buds. It is sweet and cold in nature, and belongs to the stomach, lung and heart meridians. It has the efficacy of dispersing wind-heat, detoxifying and clearing heat. 1. Detoxifying and clearing heat: It is often used in the treatment of dengtoxin (acute infectious disease with reddened skin like paint), laryngeal paralysis (red, swollen and painful pharynx, dryness, foreign body sensation, itchy pharynx, difficulty in swallowing), carbuncle ulcers, redness, swelling and hot pains caused by heat toxins and heat toxicity and bloody diarrhea (dysentery caused by heat toxins and blood in stools), etc., and is often used with forsythia, chrysanthemums, and panax notoginseng. 2. Evacuation of wind-heat: commonly used in the onset of warmth and wind-heat colds, for the various stages of warm diseases have a certain degree of efficacy, often used in conjunction with forsythia, burdock, gypsum, Zhimu, raw dihuang and other drugs. It is not to be used by those who have a deficiency of qi, sores and pus, or those who have a deficiency of cold in the spleen and stomach. Therefore, when using traditional Chinese medicine, it is recommended to take under the guidance of a professional physician, and not unauthorized use of medication, so as not to damage the organism.