Forsythia is a traditional Chinese medicine with the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, evacuating wind-heat, etc. Its correct method of taking is decoction. The correct way to take it is to decoct it. The active ingredients are limited to precipitation, so it is generally not recommended to take forsythia in water.
Forsythia is the dried fruit of the plant forsythia of the family Mulleinaceae, with the efficacy of clearing heat and removing toxins, evacuating wind-heat, subduing swellings and dispersing knots, and it can be used for the treatment of wind-heat colds and flu, the first signs of warm diseases, high fever, thirst, dizziness, feverish drenching (burning and stinging pain in the urine is obvious, accompanied by urinary urgency, discomfort in the abdomen and pulling), astringency and pain and other illnesses.
The drug can also be used in the treatment of carbuncle (a poisonous sore, an acute suppurative disease that occurs on the body surface, limbs, and internal organs), scrofula (mainly refers to tuberculosis of the cervical lymph nodes), and tansy (an acute infectious disease in which the skin can be seen to be red as if it had been coated with pigment).
The proper use of forsythia is decoction, and it is generally not recommended to take it in water. In addition, forsythia is slightly cold in nature, so it is not suitable for people with cold spleen and stomach and pus clearing with deficiency of qi.
It is recommended to follow the doctor’s advice to take Chinese herbal medicines reasonably, and not to take them blindly on one’s own.