Honeysuckle is useful in treating conditions such as carbuncles, boils and external wind-heat. Honeysuckle belongs to the Chinese medicine, sweet, cold. It belongs to the lung, heart and stomach meridians. It is the dried flower buds of the plant Lonicera japonica. Honeysuckle has the efficacy of clearing heat and detoxification, evacuating wind-heat, so it can be used for the treatment of carbuncles and boils and external wind-heat and feverish blood dysentery (dysentery caused by feeling heat and poison, with blood in the stool) and other conditions. For example, honeysuckle with forsythia can strengthen the efficacy of clearing heat and removing toxins, and is suitable for external wind-heat as well as colds and flu that are characterized by wind-heat. The adverse reactions and contraindications of the above drugs are not clear. When using medication, it is necessary to be guided by a Chinese medicine practitioner to use medication, do not use medication arbitrarily, so as to avoid adverse consequences.