There are no clear harms or adverse reactions to bathing newborns with honeysuckle, but newborns have delicate skin and it is not recommended to blindly use honeysuckle to bathe newborns. If the use of drugs need to be used under the guidance of a physician.
Honeysuckle is the dried flower buds or flowers with the first bloom of Lonicera japonica, sweet flavor, cold nature. Attributed to the lung, heart, stomach meridian. It has the efficacy of clearing away heat and detoxification, and evacuating wind-heat.
It is used in treating carbuncles, boils, laryngeal paralysis (redness, swelling and pain in the throat, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or itchy discomfort in the throat, and difficulty in swallowing), salpingitis (acute infectious disease, the skin can be seen to be red as if it were painted), and dysentery with blood (dysentery caused by feeling the heat poison and blood is seen in the stools).
It can also be used for wind-heat cold and fever. It can be decocted and taken internally, or powdered and applied externally. Need to pay attention to the spleen and stomach cold and qi deficiency sores and pus clear people should not take.
Honeysuckle used to take a bath, soaked in water, the active ingredient precipitation is limited, can not replace the drug treatment of disease.
Although the honeysuckle bath is not clear harm and adverse reactions, but the newborn just born skin is relatively delicate, blind use of honeysuckle to the newborn bath may cause adverse consequences.
If the newborn appears uncomfortable symptoms suggest timely medical treatment, under the guidance of the physician to use drugs, should not blindly use their own medication.