Parents can give honeysuckle to infants on medical advice if they have a condition for which honeysuckle is indicated.
Honeysuckle is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, sweet in flavor, cold in nature, and enters the lung, stomach and heart meridians. It has the efficacy of clearing away heat and detoxification, and evacuating wind-heat.
Clinically used in the treatment of carbuncle boils, paralysis of the throat (throat red, swollen and painful, or dry, foreign body sensation, or throat itching discomfort, difficulty swallowing), Dan toxicity (acute infectious disease, visible skin red like paint), fever and blood dysentery (dysentery caused by feeling the heat and poison, stool blood), wind-heat colds, fever and other illnesses.
Clinical for honeysuckle allergy, spleen and stomach cold, qi deficiency sores pus clear people prohibited the use of, and does not indicate that infants prohibited, so infants if the above conditions, is to follow the doctor’s advice to drink honeysuckle.
Parents are advised to give honeysuckle to infants under the identification of traditional Chinese medicine, and if infants are drinking other medicines, parents should consult a doctor in advance to avoid mutual drug reactions.