Drinking honeysuckle has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins (removing heat and evil from the body) and evacuating wind-heat.
Honeysuckle is a traditional Chinese medicine, dry flower buds or with primordial flowers of Lonicera, extracted from the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. It is sweet in flavor, slightly cold in nature, and belongs to the lung, heart and stomach meridians. It has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, evacuating wind-heat, and can be used for carbuncle, furuncle, throat paralysis, tannin, feverish blood dysentery, wind-heat colds, and fever of warm diseases.
The adverse effects of honeysuckle are not clear, and it is contraindicated to combine with dandelion to formulate compound injection. Precautions, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold (spleen and stomach weakness and cold), boils and pus need to be avoided.
Chinese medicines or proprietary Chinese medicines need to be used under the guidance of a Chinese doctor to identify the symptoms, and individuals should not use them blindly to avoid adverse effects.