Dandelion and honeysuckle are different from each other in terms of taste and flavor, efficacy, indications, etc. It is recommended that patients follow the doctor’s instructions to standardize the use of medication.
1. Sexual flavor attributed to the meridian: both are cold drugs, both into the stomach meridian, but dandelion taste sweet, bitter, also into the liver meridian; honeysuckle taste sweet, also into the heart and lung meridian.
2. Efficacy: both have the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins (removing heat and toxins from the body), but dandelion can also dissipate lumps and swellings, diuresis and drenching; honeysuckle can also evacuate wind-heat.
3. Indications: Both can treat carbuncle boils (mostly occurring in the limbs or facial sores, shape of small roots deep, such as nails as hard), but dandelion can also be treated with damp-heat jaundice, red eyes, swelling and pain; honeysuckle can be used to treat exogenous wind-heat, fever and blood dysentery (dysentery caused by feeling the heat, see blood in the stools), and so on.
4. Adverse reactions: dandelion, if taken in excess, may lead to slow diarrhea; honeysuckle adverse reactions are not clear.
If you need to take the above drugs, it is recommended that the patient under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner to standardize the use of medication, do not blindly use drugs without authorization.