Honeysuckle is a treasure everywhere, and it has been famous for its extensive medicinal value since ancient times. Honeysuckle can be used as medicine all over the body. As early as more than two thousand years ago, our ancestors had a certain understanding of it. In the fifth century, people began to use its stems and leaves as medicine; "Shennong Herbal Classic" contains: "Honeysuckle is cold in nature and sweet in taste, which has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and removing blood stasis. Mainly used for exogenous wind-heat, plague onset, sore poison, redness, swelling, heat and pain, purulent bloody stool, etc. And listed it as the top grade, recording that "long service makes people feel light" and "the function of stem, leaf, flower and root is the same". The records of famous doctors have the effect of treating "warm body swelling"; In Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen used flower buds as medicine. In Compendium of Materia Medica, he said that it can cure "all rheumatism, emphysema, scabies, bayberry, clearing away heat and detoxifying", saying that it is not only a good medicine for treating wind swelling, stopping dysentery and expelling corpse, but also a good medicine for detumescence and detoxifying, and making honeysuckle, stem and leaf and flower have the same effect for a long time.

According to laboratory analysis, chlorogenic acid is the main component in the stems, leaves and flowers of Lonicera japonica Thunb. Chlorogenic acid has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects in clinic. In addition, flowers contain inositol, saponins, volatile oil, flavonoids and so on. The leaves contain tannin, honeysuckle glycoside, strychnine, syringin and honeysuckle yellow. The stem and stem bark contain luteolin, saponin and pure cellulose. Fruit contains reducing sugar. Modern medical research has proved that honeysuckle has strong antibacterial activity against streptococcus sanguis, staphylococcus aureus, typhoid bacillus, dysentery bacillus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, diplococcus pneumoniae, Bordetella pertussis and meningococcus. Has certain curative effect on influenza and inflammation. Honeysuckle can be used alone or in combination with other drugs, or made into pills, soaked in wine, taken orally or externally, with good results. Honeysuckle is widely used in pharmaceutical preparations. According to the survey, one third of Chinese traditional medicine prescriptions use honeysuckle. The well-known "Yinqiao Jiedu Pill" and "Yinhuang Oral Liquid" are both made of honeysuckle as the main raw material. Taking honeysuckle as the main medicine, forsythia suspensa, Folium Isatidis, Rhizoma Phragmitis and Glycyrrhrizae Radix, and decocting with water instead of tea, can prevent Japanese encephalitis and meningitis.