【Nature and flavor】Sweet and cold.
 [return through meridians] Returns to the lung and stomach meridians.
 【Effects】Clears away heat, detoxifies, reduces inflammation and swelling.
 [Indications] Fever due to exogenous wind-heat or febrile disease, heatstroke, heat-toxic bloody diarrhea, carbuncle, throat congestion, and various infectious diseases.
 【Medical records】
 "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "It can clear away heat, relieve various sores, carbuncle, back ulcer, red flow and scrofula."
 "Essentials of Raw Herbal Medicines" states: "It can eliminate carbuncle, furuncle and furuncle poison, stop dysentery, wash rickets, and remove skin blood heat."
 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Nourishes blood and quenches thirst. Treats scabies."
 【Predecessors release medicine】
 "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Honeysuckle is used to treat bloating and diarrhea, eliminate carbuncle and disperse toxins, and replenish deficiency and treat wind. People only know its disinfection function, but are ignorant of its function of treating wind deficiency. I have used it for various symptoms and it has been effective time and again."
 "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says: "Honeysuckle can remove toxins and pus, and it is a tonic in the process of purgation. It is a holy medicine for carbuncle ulcers. However, it should not be used for those with weak qi, clear pus, and diarrhea due to poor appetite. For smallpox sores that cannot be lifted up, use this root to decoct in running water for bathing. The effect is to make the smallpox glow and become stronger. This is a modified version of Shuiyang Decoction."
 "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "It is slightly cold in nature and good at detoxifying. Therefore, it is an essential medicine for treating carbuncle, swelling, sore, ringworm, bayberry, rheumatism and other poisons. It can disperse the poison that has not yet formed and can eliminate the poison that has already formed. However, it is slow in nature, so it must be doubled or boiled with wine, or mashed and mixed with wine to drink, or ground and mixed with wine to apply thickly. If it is used to treat scrofula and various poisons in the upper part of the body, use about one or two liang, and boil it frequently for a very effective effect."
 "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "All books say that honeysuckle can nourish the body and nourish the blood, and that it can enter the lungs to dissipate heat, and can treat malignant sores, intestinal diarrhea, carbuncle, hemorrhoids, and is a common medicine for treating poison in surgery. This seems to be a divergence. Little do people know that the book says that it can nourish the body because it is fragrant and sweet. Although it enters the body to expel heat, its qi is not very fast and harmful; the book says that it can nourish the blood because its poison is condensed in the blood, and taking this poison gas will suddenly resolve, and the blood will be nourished by itself. In fact, it is only a product for clearing heat and detoxifying. Therefore, all diseases such as carbuncle can be treated with this internal medicine, taking its qi to cool and relieve heat, and advocating for unblocking. If you say that taking it for a long time will make you lighter and prolong your life, it is not without flattery. All the ancients who expressed the efficacy of medicine were like this, but those who use medicine should be clear and not be confused by the efficacy of medicine."