Honeysuckle and lotus leaves generally have no contraindications, so honeysuckle can be brewed with lotus leaves to drink, but the effect of herbal infusions is limited.
Honeysuckle is the dried flower buds of Lonicera japonica or the flower with the first bloom, and it is cold in nature, and its effect is to clear away heat and detoxification, evacuate wind-heat, which can be used for carbuncles, boils, paralysis of the throat (pharyngeal redness, swelling and pain, or dryness, a foreign body sensation, or pharyngeal itching and discomfort, dysphagia), dengtoxin (an acute infectious disease, the visible redness of the skin is like a pigment coating), wind-heat colds and fever and other illnesses.
However, honeysuckle should be avoided by those who have cold spleen and stomach and pus clearing from sores and ulcers with Qi deficiency.
Lotus leaf is the dried leaf of Lotus japonicus of the Water Lily family. It is flat in nature and is effective in clearing summer heat and removing dampness, elevating Qing-Yang (conveying nutrients from digested food to the head and face and other parts of the body), cooling the blood and stopping bleeding, and can be used in the treatment of summer-heat and thirst, summer-dampness and diarrhea, diarrhea due to deficiency of the spleen, and epistaxis (vomiting of blood due to blood-heat and bleeding from the nose).
The above two herbs have no clear contraindications, so they can be brewed together. However, the amount of medicinal ingredients that can be precipitated from the Chinese herbal medicines in water is relatively small, so their efficacy and effects are limited, and it is recommended to take them in the form of decoction. If you need to use Chinese herbs, it is recommended to do so under the guidance of a doctor.