Honeysuckle Stem Lonicera japonica (caulis)
Not yet categorizedCold
Source-based · educational reference
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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