Ren Dong Teng - 忍冬疼 - Caulis Lonicerae - Honeysuckle Vine

Pharmaceutical Latin:	Caulis Lonicerae
Common English:	Honeysuckle Vine Lonicera Vine

Category

Herbs That Clear Heat and Purge Fire: Herbs That Clear Heat and Detoxify; Target Warm and Heat Diseases

Properties

Taste	Temperature	Entering Meridians	Dosage
Sweet	Cold	Large Intestine Lung Stomach (Heart) (Spleen)	9-30g Tincture: 2-5ml

Actions And Indications

Actions	Indications/Syndromes
Clears Heat and resolves toxicity	Sores and skin eruptions
Dispels Wind-Dampness, soothes the sinews and unblocks the channels	Wind-Damp-Heat-Bi
Cools the Blood	Adjunctively for hot abdominal pain, early periods Excess bleeding and mastitis
Relieves abdominal pain due to inflammation	Blood Heat dysentery
Clears Damp-Heat from the Lower Jiao	Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao
Expels Wind-Heat	Wind-Heat

Contraindications, Incompatibilities And Herb/Drug Interactions

Major Combinations

Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao Rice Wine	Flos Lonicerae Jin Yin Hua	Ram. Mori Sang Zhi
Topical application for sores.	Wind-Heat throughout the body affecting the channels and collaterals with stiffness and pain.	Heat in the joints.
Caulis Sargentodoxae Hong Teng Hb. Patriniae Bai Jiang Cao	Rx. Rehmanniae Sheng Di Huang Cx. Lycii Di Gu Pi	Rx. Sanguisorbae Di Yu Rx. Rubiae Qian Cao Gen
Abdominal pain due to inflammation.	Early periods due to Blood Heat.	Excessive bleeding due to Blood Heat.
Hb. Taraxaci Pu Gong Ying Rx. Trichosanthis Tian Hua Fen Spina Gleditsiae Zao Jiao Ci	Rx. Clematidis Wei Ling Xian Rx. Gentianae Macrophyllae Qin Jiao Rz. et Rx. Notopterygii Qiang Huo Rx. Angelicae Pubescentis Du Huo Caulis Impatientis Tou Gu Cao
Mastitis.	Heat Bi with redness, swelling and burning pain.

Notes

1. Its name translates as “the stem that resists winter”.
2. Its main uses are abscesses, sores and Wind-Damp-Heat-Bi.
3. It can stand in for Flos Lonicerae Japonica Jin Yin Hua.
4. Its actions concentrate on the channels.
5. By unblocking the channels and collaterals it stops pain, as in Wind-Heat Bi.
6. The dried vine acts less quickly than the fresh one.
7. Ren Dong Teng and Flos Lonicerae Jin Yin Hua both clear Heat and resolve toxicity. Although weaker, Ren Dong Teng can expel Wind-Heat from the channels and collaterals to stop pain, something Jin Yin Hua cannot do. This makes Ren Dong Teng useful for Wind-Damp-Heat Bi as well as abscesses and sores.
8. Ren Dong Teng and Caulis Sargentodoxae Hong Teng both resolve toxicity, reduce sores, clear Heat, and treat Bi Syndrome and abdominal pain. Ren Dong Teng clears Wind-Heat from the collaterals to relieve pain, whereas Hong Teng resolves toxicity, invigorates Blood, relieves pain and treats abscesses of the breast and abdomen.