What are the effects and functions of herbal tea?
Abstract: Herbal tea has the effects of clearing away heat and replenishing qi, nourishing yin and nourishing yang. In summer, many friends choose to drink herbal tea to relieve summer heat. However, experts remind that herbal tea is also medicine, and some herbal teas also have traditional Chinese medicine properties. Due to the characteristics of the material, you should drink it in moderation. In addition, not everyone is suitable for drinking herbal tea. For people with special physiques such as children and the elderly, drinking herbal tea will be harmful to health. What are the effects and functions of herbal tea? Who is not suitable for drinking herbal tea
Herbal tea has the four qi and five flavors of traditional Chinese medicine
Summer heat consumes qi and damages body fluid, so the medicinal materials used in herbal tea mostly have It has the effect of clearing away heat and replenishing qi, nourishing yin and replenishing yang. Some of these Chinese herbal medicines can be used both as medicine and food, while others can only be used as medicine. Even medicinal materials that can be used as food also have the four qi and five flavors of traditional Chinese medicine. For example, commonly used medicinal materials such as honeysuckle, roses, Kuding tea, chrysanthemum, Perilla, wood butterfly, Ophiopogon japonicus, bamboo leaves and other medicinal materials are mostly pungent, sweet and cold in nature and flavor. After soaking, more than half of the active ingredients will be dissolved. Although the medicine is not as strong as the boiled decoction in water, if you drink a lot of it, while clearing away heat and nourishing yin and yang, it will also cause the yang energy in the human body's internal organs to disperse and be damaged, and the spleen and stomach and other organs will be damaged. Dysfunctional due to the stagnation of Yin fluid. Therefore, herbal tea is also medicine and can be used to relieve summer heat at the appropriate time, but it should be drunk in moderation.
Some people are not suitable for drinking herbal tea
Some people believe that the temperature in summer is too high, and drinking herbal tea can play a good protective role in the human body. Some parents are afraid that their children will suffer from heat stroke. Herbal tea is given to children as a drink. In fact, even in the hot summer, there are still a large number of people who are not suitable for drinking herbal tea.
1． People with yang deficiency constitution: Most modern people have yang deficiency constitution. Nowadays, many people sit in offices all day long, facing computers. The intensity of physical labor and outdoor activities are reduced, and the driving function of yang energy cannot be exercised; in addition, the function of air conditioning Using it makes the seasonal impact of summer on the human body less obvious than in the past, causing the yang energy in the body to rise weakly with the seasons. Therefore, many people's physiques are experiencing excessive Yang deficiency and can no longer withstand the stimulation of large amounts of cold substances. Often some office white-collar workers are afraid of the cold, feel cold limbs, look pale, have loose stools, and long and clear urine. They should check whether they have drank too much herbal tea.
2. People in bitter summer: People in bitter summer have weak spleen and stomach yang energy in promoting transportation and transformation, and consume less food, so their resistance is relatively low. There is a lot of sweat secretion in summer, and Chinese medicine believes that sweat is the "yang fluid" of the human body. If you sweat too much, yang energy will leak out with the sweat. If you take bitter and cold herbal tea at this time, it will damage the spleen and stomach, causing The already weak spleen and stomach become even weaker and the righteousness is damaged, which not only aggravates the symptoms of bitter summer, but also leads to many other diseases due to reduced immunity.
3. Women during menstruation and puerperium: Warmth of the meridians is the key to keeping the meridians open and preventing congestion and blockage. Women's bodies are extremely weak during menstruation and postpartum, and are especially sensitive to hot and cold stimulation. If you drink herbal tea without restraint due to hot weather, you can feel a temporary coolness in your stomach. However, after these drugs are absorbed into the blood, the cold and cold stimulation will make the blood flow stagnant and slow, and even form congestion, causing dysmenorrhea and menstruation. Irregular menstruation, reduced menstrual flow, and in severe cases may cause heavy bleeding and amenorrhea.
4. Children and the elderly: Children are pure Yang bodies, so they are particularly prone to getting angry. But drinking herbal tea is not a good way to prevent children from getting angry. Because the regulating function of the spleen and stomach in children is still in the stage of establishment and improvement, they cannot adjust and adapt in time to the cold stimulation of external drugs. Instead, the drugs will directly act on the spleen and stomach, affecting digestion and absorption, causing abdominal pain and diarrhea. Due to the weakening of Yang Qi and the decline of organ functions in the elderly, they will also suffer from digestive system diseases and a series of symptoms caused by the severe loss of Yang Qi due to the stimulation of herbal tea.