Honeysuckle is a common Chinese herbal medicine that many people like to drink by brewing it in water. But how much do you know about the medicinal properties of honeysuckle itself? What diseases can be treated by drinking honeysuckle tea?
1. Antibacterial effect
Honeysuckle has a significant inhibitory effect on many pathogenic bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, Shigella, Vibrio cholerae, Salmonella typhi, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus hemolyticus, and Salmonella paratyphi.
2. Anti-inflammatory and detoxifying properties
It has a strong effect on treating boils, carbuncles, and abscesses, as well as clearing heat and detoxifying the body.
3. Dispelling heat and eliminating pathogenic factors
It has a certain effect on early-stage wind-heat or warm diseases, such as body heat, headache, restlessness, confusion, red tongue, dry throat, etc.
4. Cooling blood and stopping diarrhea
It has the effect of detoxification, stopping diarrhea, cooling blood, and relieving sore throat for conditions such as heat-toxin diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, throat obstruction due to dampness and heat, and sore throat.
