Honeysuckle is cold and sweet, and enters the lung, heart and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, resisting inflammation, tonifying deficiency and treating wind, and is mainly used for treating fullness, fever, heat toxic carbuncle, tumor and other diseases. It has certain curative effect on dizziness, thirst, sweating and boredom, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, measles, pneumonia, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, acute mastitis, septicemia, appendicitis, skin infection, carbuncle and furuncle, erysipelas, mumps, suppurative tonsillitis and other diseases.

Lithospermum is cold, sweet and salty, and enters the heart and liver meridians. Functions: cooling blood, promoting blood circulation, detoxicating and penetrating rash. Can be used for treating blood heat, rash, measles, sores, eczema, fire burn and water burn. Clearing heat and cooling blood is used for measles, fever rash, eczema, hematuria, bloody stranguria, bloody dysentery, ulcer, erysipelas, burn and constipation caused by heat.

Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi is cold and bitter. Into the lungs, gallbladder, spleen, large intestine and small intestine. Indications: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, purging fire and detoxicating, stopping bleeding, preventing miscarriage and lowering blood pressure. It can be used for treating chest distress and nausea, fullness due to damp-heat and summer heat, diarrhea and jaundice, cough due to lung heat, high fever and polydipsia, vomiting due to blood heat, carbuncle, carbuncle, and fetal movement disorder.

Banlangen is cold, slightly sweet at first, bitter in taste, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, preventing colds and relieving sore throat. It is mainly used to treat warm toxic macula, red and dark tongue, sore throat, rash and other diseases.

Indications: clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Can be used for treating fever, polydipsia, influenza, acute infectious hepatitis, bacillary dysentery, acute gastroenteritis, acute pneumonia, erysipelas, hematemesis, epistaxis, jaundice, dysentery, laryngitis, aphtha and carbuncle.