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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:37:01.04496+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/ren-dong-teng/</canonical>
  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
  <attribution-html>&lt;a href=&quot;https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/ren-dong-teng/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ren dong teng</name>
    <name type="chinese">忍冬藤</name>
    <name type="latin">Caulis Lonicerae</name>
    <name type="english">Honeysuckle Vine</name>
    <name type="japanese">nindoto</name>
    <name type="korean">indongdeung</name>
  </names>
  <category>Clear Heat, Relieve Toxicity</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Lung</channel>
    <channel>Large Intestine</channel>
    <channel>Stomach</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and resolves toxicity</summary>
      <indication>Skin eruptions and sores from milder Heat toxin</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Dispels Wind-Damp, soothes the sinews and unblocks the channels</summary>
      <indication>Bi from Wind, Damp or Heat, including Wind-Damp-Heat Bi</indication>
      <indication>Itching from Wind</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Cools the Blood</summary>
      <indication>Heat in the Blood with early or heavy periods</indication>
      <indication>Mastitis</indication>
      <indication>Hot abdominal pain, as a supporting herb</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Relieves inflammatory abdominal pain</summary>
      <indication>Dysentery from Heat in the Blood</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Damp-Heat from the Lower Jiao</summary>
      <indication>Lower Jiao Damp-Heat</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Releases the Exterior and disperses Wind-Heat</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Heat</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
