Honeysuckle dew can clear away heat and detoxify, and is used for children with prickly heat and thirst due to heat.

Honeysuckle, the correct name is Lonicera (scientific name: Lonicera japonica? Thunb.). The name "honeysuckle" comes from the "Compendium of Materia Medica". Because the honeysuckle flower first blooms in white and later turns yellow, it is named honeysuckle. The medicinal material honeysuckle is the dried flower buds or first-blooming flowers of Lonicera genus Lonicerae of the Caprifoliaceae family and plants of the same genus.

Honeysuckle has been known as a good medicine for clearing away heat and detoxifying since ancient times. It is sweet and cold in nature and aromatic. It is sweet and cold in nature and clears away heat without hurting the stomach. Its aroma is clear and can dispel evil spirits. Honeysuckle can not only dispel wind and heat, but also clear and detoxify blood. It is effective in treating various febrile and venereal diseases, such as body fever, rashes, spots, heat sores and carbuncles, and sore throat.

Morphological characteristics:

Honeysuckle is a perennial semi-evergreen shrub with twining and stolons. The branchlets are slender and hollow, and the vines are brown to russet. The ovate leaves are opposite, and the branches and leaves are densely covered with pubescence and glandular hairs. It blooms in summer. The bracts are leaf-shaped. The lip-shaped flowers have a light fragrance. There are pubescence and glandular hairs on the outside. The stamens and styles extend out of the corolla. The flowers are born in pairs in the leaf axils. The flower color is white at first, gradually turns to yellow, and the yellow and white complement each other. Spherical berries, black when ripe.