What are the benefits and effects of honeysuckle vine?

Honeysuckle vine is Lonicera japonica, which can clear heat and detoxify (remove heat and poison from the body), dredge the wind and open the channels. It is used for fever of warm disease, dysentery caused by heat (dysentery caused by feeling heat, see blood in stool), carbuncle, swollen sores and ulcers, rheumatism-heat paralysis (often manifested as burning, pain, redness and swelling of joints and muscles), joints red, swollen and hot pain, etc.. Lonicera japonica is sweet in taste, cold in nature, and belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. Lonicera japonica can be used alone or in combination with other drugs, such as for the treatment of exogenous wind-heat or the beginning of warm disease, fever, thirst, can be used with forsythia, thorns and mint; for the treatment of rheumatism-heat paralysis, redness, swelling and pain in the joints, can be used with Gentiana scabra, Cangzhu, Cyperus rotundus, hyssop, and so on. Adverse effects of this product is not clear, spleen and stomach deficiency (spleen and stomach weakness and cold), diarrhea more than one person should be cautious. Patients who feel unwell are advised to consult a doctor promptly and take this drug under the doctor’s supervision.