What are the advantages and disadvantages of drinking herbal tea?

1. Herbal tea is a drink made of common cold and medicinal Chinese herbal medicines. Although it is called "herbal tea", it actually belongs to "medicine". As the saying goes, medicine is toxic in three ways, and drinking herbal tea often is likely to have adverse effects on the body.

2, the elderly are also people who should not drink herbal tea, because the elderly are weak and have insufficient yang. Herbal tea is a cool thing, so it is not recommended to drink it. Drinking too much will hurt the yang.

Benefits:

1, summer weather is hot, especially when people feel thirsty after sweating, people want to drink a large cup of herbal tea, which can not only quench their thirst and reduce their fever, but also reduce the fire and refresh themselves.

2. Drinking herbal tea properly can resist and eliminate summer evil.

3. Drinking herbal tea properly can maintain skin, decompose neutral fat and achieve the effect of losing weight and beautifying.

4. Drinking herbal tea properly can reduce the cholesterol content and blood lipid concentration in blood and prevent cardiovascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis, hypertension and cerebral thrombosis.

Extended data:

Women are very weak during the puerperium and are particularly sensitive to the stimulation of cold and heat. Drinking herbal tea is a no-no, which easily stimulates their bodies, leading to cold coagulation, qi stagnation and even blood stasis.

Cause many diseases; Drinking herbal tea during menstruation can cause dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, decreased menstrual flow and even amenorrhea. The main ingredients of herbal tea are chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and selfheal.

These ingredients are mostly cold and easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. People with weak constitution and poor spleen and stomach function are usually afraid of cold and wind, and cold food can lead to gastrointestinal dysfunction.

If these people drink bitter cold herbal tea, it will not only aggravate these symptoms, but also seriously hurt the spleen and stomach, and even abdominal pain and diarrhea. Therefore, it is not advisable to blindly follow advertisements to choose some drinks.

References:

People's Daily Online-Herbal tea is a traditional Chinese medicine for clearing away heat, and it works best when it is hot!

? People's Daily Online-Can drinking herbal tea reduce fire in summer? It is better to drink carefully.