What are the common side effects of honeysuckle?

Honeysuckle can often be seen in some of the pills we often take. It can be seen that honeysuckle has many benefits in pharmacology. Despite this, scientific research has found that honeysuckle still has certain toxic side effects. Maybe many people are unwilling to believe that this is true, but it is the fact. Many people want to know what the general toxic side effects of honeysuckle are. Let's take a look.

The stems, leaves and flowers of honeysuckle can be used as medicine, which has detoxification, anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, diuretic and antipruritic effects.

Honeysuckle side effects: People with spleen and stomach deficiency, coldness, qi deficiency, sores and pus should not take it. Side effects: Very low toxicity. The median lethal dose of honeysuckle extract injected subcutaneously in mice is 53g/kg. The honeysuckle water extract was administered orally to rabbits and dogs without obvious toxicity and had no effect on respiration, blood pressure, or urine volume. Chlorogenic acid has an allergenic effect and can cause allergic reactions, but oral administration does not cause such reactions because chlorogenic acid can be converted into substances without allergenic activity by small intestinal secretions.

Honeysuckle is good at detoxifying, so it is an important medicine for treating carbuncle, swelling, sore, tinea, 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, its nature is slow, so it must be used in double doses, or boiled with wine and taken, or mashed and juiced and mixed with wine and taken all at once, or ground and mixed with wine and applied thickly. If it is used to treat scrofula and various poisons in the upper part of the body, use about one or two liang of it and decoct it frequently, it is very effective. Honeysuckle can detoxify and remove pus, and it is a tonic while purging. It is a holy medicine for carbuncles and ulcers. However, it should not be used by those who suffer from qi deficiency, clear pus, and diarrhea due to poor appetite. For those with smallpox sores that cannot be lifted up, use this root to boil it in running water for bathing, and it will be effective when the smallpox is bright and strong. Honeysuckle is used to treat bloating, diarrhea, eliminate carbuncle, disperse toxins, replenish deficiency and cure wind. People only know its disinfectant function but are ignorant of its function of relieving bloating, relieving wind and curing deficiency. I have used it to treat various symptoms and it has been effective time and time again.

Generally speaking, honeysuckle can help us kill bacteria, detoxify, relieve itching and so on. Therefore, honeysuckle is used in many different medicines. However, after the detailed description above, we also found that, strictly speaking, honeysuckle does have certain toxic side effects. In this regard, I hope everyone will pay attention to it and never take honeysuckle in large quantities.