
Japanese Honeysuckle
Latin name: Lonicera japonica Thunb.
Family: Caprifoliaceae
Part Used: Buds, stem branches
Properties: Taste sweet, cold in nature
Actions:Buds: clearing heat-toxin, disperse wind-heat; Stem branches: clearing heat-toxin, freeing the network vessels
Usage:Bud: epidemic febrile disease and pyrexia, hemafecia due to pyretic toxicity, anthracia and furunculosis, pharyngitis and various infectious diseases; Stem branches: epidemic febrile disease and pyrexia, anthracia and swelling, hemafecia due to pyretic toxicity, rheumatic arthralgia.