The difference between honeysuckle and the broken intestine grass is mainly embodied in the flavor attributed to the meridian, the efficacy of the role as well as the use of attention.
1. Sexual flavor attribution: honeysuckle for the Lonicera japonica plant Lonicera japonica dry buds or with the first flowers, taste sweet, cold, to the lungs, heart, stomach meridian; broken intestines, also known as the hook, for the strychnine plant hooks the dry roots and stems, taste bitter, pungent, warm, have a big poison.
2. Efficacy: honeysuckle has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, dispersing wind and heat, and can be used for carbuncles and furuncles, dengtoxin (acute infectious diseases, visible skin redness like paint), wind-heat colds and other diseases; broken intestines have the efficacy of expelling wind, attacking toxins, pain relieving, and is used externally for scabies and epilepsy, scrofula (mainly refers to the cervical lymph node nodules), eczema, carbuncles, furuncles, rheumatism paralysis, bruises and other diseases.
3. Use Note: Spleen and stomach cold and qi deficiency sores and pus clearing should be avoided honeysuckle; severed bowel grass is highly toxic, can only be used externally, can not be taken internally.
If you are not feeling well, we recommend that you consult a doctor in time and follow the doctor’s instructions for medication. The medication must be under the guidance of a professional physician, do not take medication on your own, so as not to delay the condition.
Source of “Broken Intestine Grass”: “Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Second Edition”.