Drinking honeysuckle in water is incorrect. The correct way to take honeysuckle is to decoct the water, soaking water can play a limited role in the efficacy of the drug, often do not achieve the effect of the treatment of disease. Honeysuckle with what with, can not be generalized, need to be based on the condition of specific judgment.
Honeysuckle is a traditional Chinese medicine, for the Lonicera japonica plant Lonicera japonica dried flower buds. It has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, evacuating wind-heat. It is effective in treating fever and blood dysentery (dysentery caused by heat and poison, with blood in the stool), carbuncles and swollen poisons, wind-heat colds and other conditions. The adverse effects of honeysuckle are still unclear, note that the spleen and stomach cold people should not use.
What to use with honeysuckle needs to be judged according to the needs of the condition. For example, honeysuckle is used with scutellaria baicalensis and bupleurum to treat feverish blood dysentery; honeysuckle is used with forsythia and mint to treat external wind-heat.
If you need to use the drug need to be identified by a doctor to use, do not blindly use their own medicine, so as not to cause adverse reactions.