Eczema in Chinese medicine is called wet sores, there is no clear evidence that drinking honeysuckle water will aggravate wet sores.
Eczema is a kind of allergic inflammatory skin disease, mostly due to wind-damp-heat evil impregnation of the skin, dampness and heat caused by the internal growth of its lesions symmetrically distributed, there can be blisters, pimples, scabs and other different forms of intense itching, with a tendency to ooze, and easy to recurring episodes into a chronic.
Honeysuckle is a heat-cleansing and detoxifying (removing heat and toxicity from the body) medicine, and its effects are to clear heat and detoxify, evacuate wind-heat, cool the blood and stop dysentery (clearing heat and cooling the blood and eliminating dysentery, etc.). It can be used to treat carbuncle boils (boils are sores that occur on the limbs or face, small in shape with deep roots, as hard as nails), wind-heat colds, and heat-poisoned blood dysentery (dysentery caused by heat-poisoned feelings and blood in the stool).
Honeysuckle is a medicine for treating Yang evidence sores and ulcers, and can be applied to both internal and external carbuncles, but it is contraindicated in cases of qi deficiency sores and pus clearing.
There is no evidence to suggest that drinking honeysuckle may lead to exacerbation of wet sores. If the patient has wet sores, it is recommended to go to the hospital as soon as possible to avoid the development of the disease.