What are the benefits, effects and contraindications of Forsythia suspensa?

1. Benefits

Many medical books record that it has many effects, including treating chills and fever, plague, and so on.

(1) If one contracts a warm-heat disease, we can use one liang of Forsythia suspensa plus honeysuckle flower, along with bitter platycodon root, mint and bamboo leaf, grind them into powder, and take it three times during the day and once at night.

(2) It also has a fairly significant effect on women; it can relieve pain and can also make menstruation regular.

(3) If one has difficulty urinating, using it is also very good.

(4) If it is used together with honeysuckle flower, mint and the like, it can clear heat; mixed with qinglianxin and other substances, it can purge heat.

Overall, this plant, when used together with many plants that have the same functions, will have relatively significant effects. Of course, it can be made into several kinds of drinks, and each of these drinks will have its own effects, but they still need to be combined with other things.

2. Making soup

It can be made into soup to drink. Generally, one uses bupleurum and gentian root, grinds all of these into fine powder, and then makes them into pills the size of mung beans. This kind can treat abscesses and sores. However, if the pus is relatively thin and the color is relatively dull, it must not be taken. In addition, it can also be used to make a drink to remove toxins, and it can also be made into flower tea, whose effects are treating nephritis, purpura, and so on.

3. Contraindications

It actually has quite a lot of contraindications, mainly regarding which people cannot take it. Generally speaking, if people's spleen and stomach are relatively weak, they cannot take it; in addition, people with qi deficiency and fever also cannot take it. Of course, this thing also cannot be taken often. If it is taken often over a long period, the body will become cold.