Can children drink honeysuckle soaked water?

When it comes to honeysuckle, there are definitely many people who can't tell the difference between it and dandelion flowers. Honeysuckle, as the name suggests, is golden and silver flowers. After drying, they are white and yellow. Honeysuckle soaked in water has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Many people who have toxins in their bodies that cannot be discharged will drink some honeysuckle water. So, can children drink water soaked with honeysuckle?

Honeysuckle tea is sweet and cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, and dispersing wind-heat. Honeysuckle has a cold nature and is not suitable for long-term drinking. It is only suitable for temporary drinking in the hot summer to prevent and treat dysentery. It is particularly important to remind you that people with weak constitutions or during menstruation should not drink it, otherwise, adverse reactions may occur. It is better to drink it only when you feel you are getting hot. Drinking too much will be counterproductive. Pay attention to choosing 10 grams of honeysuckle when making the drink, brew it with boiling water and drink it frequently, but it is best not to drink it every day.

Honeysuckle water is one of the cold traditional Chinese medicines (commonly known as herbal tea). If it is not necessary, do not give it to your baby casually, otherwise it will affect the body's yang energy, causing the body's resistance to decline, making it easy to get sick in the future. Drinking too much herbal tea will damage the delicate spleen and stomach of children. The spleen is the "foundation of acquired constitution". If the "root" is injured, the person's growth will be affected. In clinical practice, most of the children who are often sick, except for those with congenital deficiencies, are fed too much herbal tea since birth. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment emphasizes the use of medicine according to the symptoms. Only when children are really suffering from "heat" can they be given herbal tea. If the child is indeed suitable for drinking herbal tea, it can be used even if the baby is only 20 days old. When a child shows three symptoms at the same time: a red tongue, yellow tongue coating and yellow urine, it can be considered that he is suffering from a fever.

Effects and functions of honeysuckle

1. It has the effect of dispersing heat and expelling evil, and has certain effects on the initial stage of exogenous wind-heat or febrile disease, fever, headache, irritability, insomnia, coma, red tongue, dry throat and mouth, etc.

2. Honeysuckle tea tastes sweet and is cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, and dispersing wind-heat. Honeysuckle has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, soothing the throat, and relieving heat and restlessness. It can treat heatstroke, diarrhea, influenza, sores, boils, acute and chronic tonsillitis, periodontitis and other diseases.

3. It has antibacterial and bactericidal effects on pneumococcus, meningococcus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Shigella dysenteriae, Streptococcus mutans, etc., and has inhibitory effects on influenza virus, orphan virus, herpes virus and leptospira.

4. Anti-inflammatory and detoxifying effects. It has strong effects of dispersing carbuncle, reducing swelling, clearing away heat, detoxifying and anti-inflammatory for carbuncle, furuncle, intestinal carbuncle and lung carbuncle.

5. It has the effect of cooling blood and stopping diarrhea. It has the effect of detoxifying, stopping diarrhea, cooling blood and relieving throat pain for heat-toxic dysentery, diarrhea with pus and blood, damp-heat blocking the throat, and sore throat.