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Honeysuckle Stem Lonicera japonica (caulis)

Not yet categorizedCold
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Traditional recorded function

Clear heat, detoxify, unblock collaterals

Warm disease with fever, heat-toxin blood dysentery, infectious hepatitis, abscess swelling and sore toxin, and tendon and bone pain. With honeysuckle (Jinyinhua), Clear heat and resolve toxin, unblock meridians and activate collaterals; with forsythia (Lianqiao), pungent-cool dispersing and releasing, clear the Lung and calm wheezing; with mulberry leaf (Sangye), dispel wind and Clear heat, Diffuse the Lung and calm wheezing; with white peony root (Baishao), Clear heat and move blood.

Nature & taste

SweetCold

Meridians entered

LungHeart

Botanical source

Accepted nameLonicera japonica Thunb.

FamilyCaprifoliaceae

Herbal properties

ColdReducingDispersing

Found in these formulas

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References