Forsythia boiled in water for the treatment of false sweating is usually decocted in the same way as other medicines, taking the right amount of forsythia and adding it to a container for decoction, waiting for the decoction to boil and then taking the juice of the medicine.
Forsythia belongs to the heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines in the heat-clearing medicines, and is bitter and cold in nature. Forsythia enters the lung meridian, small intestine meridian and heart meridian. It can be used internally and externally, and has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, subduing swellings and dispersing lumps.
Forsythia is used in the treatment of wind-heat colds, carbuncles (a kind of poisonous sores, acute suppurative diseases occurring on the body surface, limbs and internal organs), the beginning of warm diseases, scrofula (mainly refers to the cervical lymph nodes tuberculosis), warmth and heat into the camp, mammary carbuncle (the redness, swelling, and pain of the breasts and the milk discharge is not smooth, and eventually forms a suppurative disease).
It can also be used to treat high fever and thirst, salpingitis (acute infectious diseases, visible skin redness like paint), dizziness, hair spots, hot shower (burning stinging pain during urination, accompanied by urinary frequency and urgency, abdominal discomfort) urinary closure, and so on.
Forsythia is cold in nature and should be used with caution in cases of loose stools and diarrhea. Forsythia is contraindicated in those who have a history of allergy to forsythia. If necessary, please use under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.