Can drinking honeysuckle cure pharyngitis?

Many people know honeysuckle and know that it is a small flower that blooms on a plant. It can bloom multiple times and can be picked and dried after blooming. Of course, we can also buy it in the store, and the honeysuckle we buy has the same properties. Drinking honeysuckle tea regularly is good for the body, such as clearing away heat, stopping bleeding, etc. So can drinking honeysuckle cure pharyngitis? According to the medicinal properties of drinking honeysuckle, it can treat pharyngitis.

Honeysuckle has been widely known for its medicinal value since ancient times. Its main effect is to clear away heat and detoxify. It is mainly used to treat fever caused by febrile diseases, bloody diarrhea caused by heat toxins, carbuncles, furuncles, etc. Modern research has shown that honeysuckle contains pharmacologically active ingredients such as chlorogenic acid and luteolin, which have a strong inhibitory effect on various pathogenic bacteria such as hemolytic streptococci and Staphylococcus aureus, and upper respiratory tract infection pathogenic viruses. In addition, it can also enhance immunity, prevent early pregnancy, protect the liver, fight tumors, reduce inflammation, reduce fever, stop bleeding (coagulation), inhibit intestinal absorption of cholesterol, etc. It has a wide range of clinical uses and can be used in combination with other drugs to treat more than 40 diseases such as respiratory tract infections, bacillary dysentery, acute urinary tract infections, and hypertension.

Honeysuckle is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the lung, heart, and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, tonifying deficiency and treating wind. It is mainly used to treat bloating and lower body diseases, fever due to febrile diseases, heat and toxic carbuncles, and tumors. It has certain therapeutic effects on dizziness, dry mouth, sweating, depression, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, measles, pneumonia, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, acute mastitis, sepsis, appendicitis, skin infections, carbuncles, erysipelas, mumps, and purulent tonsillitis.

When drinking, you should also use regular methods of conditioning and treatment to eliminate various pathogenic factors, such as quitting smoking and drinking, improving the working environment, and actively treating chronic inflammatory lesions of the nose and nasopharynx and related systemic diseases. Strengthen physical fitness, improve body immunity, and prevent acute upper respiratory tract infections. Get enough rest, drink plenty of water, and eat light, easily digestible food. If you have fever or sore throat, you should promptly adopt physical cooling measures (such as warm water or 75% alcohol bath, placing ice packs on the head, etc.) and other antipyretic measures such as medication. Commonly used drugs include oral APC or intramuscular injection of analgesia, etc. Keep the mouth clean and use alkaline gargles to appropriately dissolve the viscous secretions in the throat. Compound borax solution is often used for gargling. In the early stages of the disease, 1% iodine glycerin or 2% silver nitrate can be applied to the pharyngeal wall to promote the disappearance of inflammation. If the inflammation invades the larynx or trachea, appropriate antibiotics or hormone nebulization inhalation treatment can be used. For patients with severe conditions, intramuscular or intravenous penicillin is the first choice. And replace strong antibiotics at any time.

Can drinking honeysuckle cure pharyngitis? Honeysuckle has the effect of treating pharyngitis. To treat or alleviate the patient's condition, it must be consumed for a long time. Of course, it must be a mild pharyngitis. Severe pharyngitis or more complicated pharyngitis is difficult to treat. It is recommended that patients use other methods of conditioning and treatment. In addition, it is necessary to cooperate with regular drug treatment and pay attention to diet. The patient should eat a light diet during the treatment period.