Honeysuckle Forsythia Suspensa Scutellaria Baicalensis

From ancient times to the present, honeysuckle tea has been commonly used to clear away heat and fire, treat fever due to febrile diseases, dysentery due to heat toxins, carbuncles and other symptoms. It is also used for symptoms such as wind-heat colds and bronchitis. Contemporary pharmacological research shows that honeysuckle tea has antibacterial, antiviral, anti-infection, antipyretic, and immunity regulating effects.

Honeysuckle tea is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It belongs to the lung meridian, heart meridian, liver and gallbladder meridian.

Function and efficacy: clearing away heat and removing fire, cooling down and dispersing wind, cold and wind-heat.

It is a heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine classified under the genus of heat-clearing medicine.

It is used to treat pharyngitis, respiratory infections with high complications of tuberculosis, pneumonia and bacillary dysentery, surgical suppurative infections, cervical erosion and ophthalmic inflammatory reactions.

It has anti-microbial, detoxifying, anti-infection, antipyretic, promotes phagocytosis of inflammatory cells, lowers blood lipids, stimulates the nerve center, resists pregnancy, prevents gastric ulcers, and stimulates the uterus.

It is cold in nature and tastes slightly bitter. Return to the lung meridian, heart meridian, small intestine meridian

Effects and functions: Clears away heat and fire, reduces swelling and resolves lumps. It is a heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine classified under the category of heat-clearing medicine.

The dosage for clinical application is 6 to 15 grams, decocted in water. It is used to treat carbuncle, scrofula, breast swelling, erysipelas, wind-heat cold, the initial stage of febrile disease, damp-heat entering the blood, high fever, thirst without appetite, coma and rash, and gonorrhea and urinary retention.

Anti-microbial bacteria; inhibit phosphodiesterase and lipoxygenase; anti-emetic; anti-liver damage; anti-infection; inhibit fish collagenase-induced reaction; reduce spontaneous hypertension, etc.

Bupleurum is cold in nature and tastes slightly bitter. It belongs to the lung meridian, liver and gallbladder meridian, spleen meridian, small intestine meridian, small intestine meridian

Effects and functions: Clears away heat, detoxifies and eliminates dampness, removes fire and toxins, promotes blood circulation, and nourishes the fetus. It is a heat-clearing, detoxifying and dampness-removing medicine classified under the category of heat-clearing medicine.

Clinical medical application: dosage: 3 to 9 grams, taken orally with soaking. It is used to treat damp-heat, summer heat chest tightness, shortness of breath, nausea, cold-damp fullness, diarrhea, jaundice, wind-heat cough, high fever, thirst and loss of appetite, blood heat vomiting and epistaxis, carbuncles, sores and fetal movement disorder.

The combination of honeysuckle tea, lotus forsythia and bupleurum is the Shuanghuanglian oral liquid which is often used in clinical medicine. Shuanghuanglian oral liquid has the effect of antiviral treatment. Another medicine that is even more effective than Shuanghuanglian oral liquid is the antiviral file.