What happens if you drink too much honeysuckle?

When it comes to the plant honeysuckle, perhaps not many people know about it. Of course, even those who know honeysuckle usually only see it as an ingredient in some medicines. But people know almost nothing about honeysuckle itself. The so-called honeysuckle is actually a kind of herbal medicine, which has many benefits to the human body. However, honeysuckle also has certain disadvantages, of course, these disadvantages are based on drinking too much. So, what will happen if you drink too much honeysuckle?

Honeysuckle has a cold nature and is not suitable for long-term drinking. It is only suitable for temporary drinking in the hot summer to prevent and treat dysentery. Silver flower is a heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine with a cold nature. It is commonly used to treat fever, plague, etc. because of its broad antibacterial spectrum, and it also has antiviral effects. However, it is not suitable for those without actual heat symptoms or with cold symptoms and deficiency symptoms to take the medicine for a long time. Severe cold can damage the stomach and cause diarrhea. It is also not suitable for those with yang deficiency to take it too much.

Warm reminder: People with weak constitution and during menstruation should not drink it, otherwise, adverse reactions may occur. It is better to drink it only when you feel you are getting hot. Drinking too much will have the opposite effect. When making tea, be sure to choose 10 grams of honeysuckle and brew it with boiling water and drink it frequently. But it is best not to drink it every day.

How to drink honeysuckle:

1. Relieve heat and improve eyesight: During the hot summer, brew honeysuckle and tea leaves or use the flowers alone instead of tea.

2. To treat dysentery: decoct 20 grams of honeysuckle into a soup. For red dysentery, mix it with white honey water and for white dysentery, mix it with brown sugar.

3. To treat all internal and external carbuncles: 50 grams of honeysuckle and 10 grams of licorice, decocted in water and taken orally.

4. To treat urticaria: collect 30 grams of fresh honeysuckle (20 grams of dried product), decoct in water, and wash with it. Take daily and wash three times.

5. Treatment of mumps: 30 grams of honeysuckle, 15 grams of forsythia, 15 grams of isatis root, decocted in water and taken orally. Mash the fresh flowers for external application.

6. To treat fever and cough caused by exogenous factors: 30 grams of honeysuckle, 20 grams each of forsythia and mint, decocted in water and taken orally.

7. To treat long-term sores that turn into fistulas: soak honeysuckle vines in wine and drink it regularly.

8. To treat poisonous mushroom poisoning: Take an appropriate amount of fresh tender stems and leaves of honeysuckle, wash them with cold boiled water, chew them finely and drink them.

From the above, we can see that if we drink a large amount of honeysuckle, it will inevitably cause certain harm to our health. Therefore, after understanding this aspect, I hope everyone will pay attention to the issue of appropriate amount when drinking honeysuckle. Of course, all medicines are poisonous. If it is not necessary, you should not drink honeysuckle.