What does honeysuckle do?

Honeysuckle has been famous for its extensive medicinal value since ancient times. Its efficacy is mainly to clear away heat and toxic materials, and it is mainly used to treat fever, bloody dysentery due to toxic heat, carbuncle and furuncle. Modern research has proved that honeysuckle contains chlorogenic acid, luteolin glycoside and other pharmacological active components, which has a strong inhibitory effect on pathogenic bacteria and viruses causing upper respiratory tract infections such as hemolytic streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus. In addition, it can also enhance immunity, resist early pregnancy, protect liver, resist tumor, diminish inflammation, relieve fever, stop bleeding (coagulation), and inhibit the absorption of cholesterol in intestine. It has a wide range of clinical uses and can be combined with other drugs to treat respiratory tract infections, bacillary dysentery and acute diseases.

Honeysuckle is cold and sweet, and enters the lung, heart and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, resisting inflammation, tonifying deficiency and treating wind, and is mainly used to treat fullness, fever, heat toxic carbuncle, tumor and other diseases. It has certain curative effect on dizziness, thirst, sweating and boredom, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, measles, pneumonia, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, acute mastitis, septicemia, appendicitis, skin infection, carbuncle, erysipelas, mumps, suppurative tonsillitis and other diseases.