Cold water soaked honeysuckle can be taken, but the active ingredients can not be well dissolved, the medicinal effect of the role may be greatly reduced, so it is not recommended.
Honeysuckle belongs to the lung, heart, stomach meridian, for the Lonicera japonica plant Lonicera japonica dry buds or with the first bloom of the flower, sweet taste, cold nature. It has the efficacy of clearing away heat and detoxification, and evacuating wind-heat.
It is suitable for the treatment of laryngeal paralysis (redness, swelling and pain in the throat, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or itchy discomfort in the throat, difficulty in swallowing), dengtoxin (acute infectious disease, visible redness of the skin like paint), carbuncles and furuncles, pyrexia and dysentery (dysentery caused by feeling heat and toxicity, with blood in the stools), wind-heat colds and fever, and other illnesses.
Honeysuckle is cold in nature, and should be avoided by people with qi deficiency, sores and pus clearing, as well as those with cold spleen and stomach. General honeysuckle can be decocted or made of dew to take, directly soaked in water to drink the active ingredients precipitation is limited, can not replace the drugs used in the treatment, such as the disease is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner, in accordance with the doctor’s instructions for treatment.