Pharmacological studies have shown that many herbal medicines that clear heat and detoxification (removing heat and toxicity from the body) have antipathogenic microorganisms, antiviral, and anti-inflammatory effects, so honeysuckle in water has the effect of killing bacteria.
Honeysuckle is sweet in flavor and cold in nature, it can clear heat and detoxify, and is suitable for carbuncle and furuncle (sores mostly occurring on the limbs or face, with small shapes and deep roots, hard as nails) caused by heat and toxic congestion. It can be used with Angelica dahurica and Angelica sinensis if it is used to treat carbuncles with redness, swelling, heat and pain at the beginning. If the treatment of boils and poisons, hard root deep, can be used with dandelion, wild chrysanthemum, purple flowers, such as dandelion.
Honeysuckle has the effect of dispersing wind and heat (dispersing externally sensed wind-heat evil), and is suitable for wind-heat episodes and fever of warm diseases. It can be used in combination with forsythia, burdock and mint if it is used to treat external wind-heat, or at the beginning of a warm disease, with fever, a slight aversion to wind-cold, sore throat and thirst.
Honeysuckle is contraindicated for those with deficiency of the spleen and stomach (spleen and stomach weak and cold) and those with deficiency of qi and pus clearing from sores and ulcers. The adverse effects of honeysuckle are not known. If medication is needed, it should be used under the guidance of a doctor, not blindly self-medication.