Honeysuckle. It is the dried bud or the first flowering flower of Lonicera japonica Thunb. 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 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 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.
Boiled honeysuckle vine has a certain therapeutic effect on children's eczema and other skin itching, and has an inhibitory effect on a variety of pathogenic bacteria and viruses in livestock and poultry. If a certain dose of honeysuckle vine leaf powder or boiled water can be added in the process of animal feeding, it will have a good effect on preventing and treating diseases such as fever, wind-heat cold, pharyngolaryngitis, pneumonia, dysentery, ulcer swelling, erysipelas, cellulitis and so on.