What are the components of honeysuckle essential oil? A detailed explanation of honeysuckle's benefits and effects

Honeysuckle is cold in nature and sweet in taste, and enters the lung, heart and stomach meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, fighting inflammation, and tonifying deficiency and treating wind, and is mainly used for distension and fullness with diarrhea, warm-disease fever, heat-toxin carbuncles and sores, tumors and other conditions. It has a certain therapeutic effect on dizziness and vertigo, dry mouth and thirst, excessive sweating and restlessness, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, measles, pneumonia, Japanese encephalitis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, acute mastitis, septicemia, appendicitis, skin infections, carbuncles, boils and sores, erysipelas, mumps, purulent tonsillitis and other conditions.

After being decocted in water, honeysuckle vine has a certain therapeutic effect on skin itching such as eczema in children, and has an inhibitory effect on various disease-causing bacteria and viruses in livestock and poultry. If a certain dose of honeysuckle vine leaf (Japanese honeysuckle stem) powder or its decoction is added during animal feeding, it has a fairly good effect on preventing and treating warm-disease fever, wind-heat cold, throat inflammation, pneumonia, dysentery, swelling and ulcers, erysipelas, cellulitis and other conditions in animals. A decoction of honeysuckle with Forsythia suspensa and Isatis root can treat mumps; honeysuckle tea can relieve summer heat and improve eyesight; a cool decoction of Forsythia suspensa and honeysuckle can treat externally contracted fever and cough. At the same time, add honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, Platycodon grandiflorus and licorice to water, boil for 10 minutes, wait until cool, and drink it as a beverage, which can treat pharyngitis and tonsillitis.