The Pros and Cons of Bathing with Honeysuckle: What Should You Know?

Bathing with honeysuckle can clear heat, stop prickly heat, and eliminate pathogenic bacteria on the skin surface, but it can easily cause spleen and stomach deficiency with cold. Additionally, honeysuckle can treat acne and other infectious diseases, as well as infantile eczema. However, due to its effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and reducing internal heat, its inappropriate use can exacerbate a cold constitution and damage the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it must be used cautiously to avoid causing discomfort.

1. Honeysuckle is a type of Chinese herbal medicine with the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, dispelling wind and dissipating heat.

2. Oral administration can treat acne, dysentery, sore throat, and other infectious diseases.

3. Bathing with honeysuckle decoction has the effects of clearing heat, reducing inflammation, and relieving itchiness.

4. It can reduce or eliminate prickly heat.

5. Additionally, honeysuckle water can also treat infantile eczema and improve skin itching symptoms caused by eczema.

6. It can also eliminate various bacteria on the skin surface, prevent boils caused by bacterial infection of hair follicles, and make the skin smooth.

1. It can cause spleen and stomach deficiency with cold because honeysuckle is a medicine that clears heat and detoxifies, and reduces internal heat.

2. Using honeysuckle to bathe children without careful consideration can often exacerbate a cold constitution, especially damaging the spleen and stomach, leading to symptoms such as vomiting, anorexia, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.

3. It can exacerbate skin symptoms. If a child's rash is caused by cold urticaria, using honeysuckle to bathe them will not only fail to alleviate the rash and skin itching symptoms, but may worsen them.