Can you drink water with Thousand Gold Vine?

Thousand Gold Vine, the Chinese herb Lonicera japonica, can be brewed and drunk. Lonicera japonica is the dried stems and branches of Lonicera japonica, family Lonicera. This medicine is sweet and cold, belongs to the lung and stomach meridian, has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification (removing heat and toxicity from the body), dredging the wind and opening the channels. Clinically, it can be used for the treatment of fever of warm diseases, feverish blood dysentery (dysentery caused by feeling heat and poison, with blood in the stool), carbuncle sores and ulcers, rheumatism-heat paralysis (often manifested as burning, pain, redness and swelling of joint muscles), redness, swelling and heat pain in the joints and other conditions. It should be noted that Lonicera japonica is cold in nature and should not be used by patients with cold spleen and stomach (weak and cold spleen and stomach). In addition, the efficacy of taking it in water is limited, and it cannot replace medication to treat diseases. If necessary, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital for treatment under the guidance of a professional physician.