Can I drink honeysuckle tea during menstruation?

The pharmacological value of honeysuckle to the human body is also quite obvious. Drinking honeysuckle tea regularly can effectively clear away heat and relieve fire. Therefore, honeysuckle tea is a more suitable beverage to drink in summer. For women who are menstruating, they need to control their diet, because women's bodies are relatively weak during this period. So can they drink honeysuckle tea during menstruation?

How to drink honeysuckle in water

For brewing honeysuckle tea with particularly delicate tea embryo, because the tea embryo itself has artistic appreciation value, it is appropriate to use a transparent glass teacup, place the cup on the tea tray when brewing, and put two or three grams of honeysuckle tea into the cup. Use freshly boiled water that has cooled slightly to about 90°C to brew, then cover the cup to prevent the aroma from dissipating. After brewing for 3 minutes, open one side of the cup lid and smell the aroma rising from the soup. Wait for the honeysuckle tea to cool down slightly before drinking.

How to drink honeysuckle soaked water:

1. Honeysuckle and Hawthorn Drink

Take appropriate amount of honeysuckle and hawthorn, brew with boiling water, and drink as tea. Used to stimulate appetite and help digestion.

2. Honeysuckle tea

20 grams of honeysuckle, decocted in water and drunk as tea or brewed as tea, can treat sore throat and prevent upper respiratory tract infections.

3. Silver Flower Mint Tea

Take 10 grams each of honeysuckle and mint, brew with boiling water, cover and simmer for 15 minutes, then add appropriate amount of honey and drink. It is used to clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and eliminate prickly heat in summer.

4. Golden Flower Licorice Tea

Make tea with 15g honeysuckle and 3g raw licorice in boiling water and drink it for preventing heatstroke, cooling down, clearing away heat and quenching thirst in summer. This tea can be boiled in water and gargled to treat pharyngitis and oral ulcers.

5. Honeysuckle and rhubarb tea

10 grams of honeysuckle and 3 grams of rhubarb are brewed together to make tea and flavored with an appropriate amount of honey. It has the effects of clearing heat, purging water, moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements, and is used to treat habitual constipation.

6. Three-flower tea

Add 10 grams each of honeysuckle and chrysanthemum and 3 grams of jasmine to boiling water to make tea for drinking. It can clear away heat and detoxify, and treat headache, thirst, and sore throat. This tea can be boiled in water and used for external washing to treat dermatitis.

7. Three-flower sea tea

4 grams of chrysanthemum, 3 grams each of honeysuckle and camellia, 3 pieces of puffed sea water, 10 grams of rock sugar, brew with boiling water for 5 minutes, drink it, 1 dose per day, for 3 consecutive days, can clear away heat and detoxify, relieve sore throat and moisten the throat, it is mainly used to treat influenza, dry, itchy and painful throat.

Taboos of drinking honeysuckle water

As we all know, honeysuckle has excellent effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying and increasing immunity. It is a very useful medicinal material and tea. However, in our daily life, there are still some taboos about drinking honeysuckle soaked in water:

1. Honeysuckle is suitable for people with a balanced constitution or internal heat. However, people with weak spleen and stomach (such as frequent abdominal pain, diarrhea, cold abdomen, cold hands and feet) should not drink honeysuckle tea.

2. 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.

3. It is better to drink only when you feel you are getting hot. Drinking too much will have the opposite effect. When making tea, be sure to choose 10 grams of honeysuckle and brew it with boiling water and drink it frequently. But it is best not to drink it every day.

4. Soaking honeysuckle in water is similar to brewing tea. It only needs to be brewed two or three times. It should not be consumed after overnight.

5. It should be noted that honeysuckle should not be consumed cold, as cold drinks can easily cause diarrhea. Therefore, honeysuckle tea should be drunk while hot to achieve better effects.

The following two types of people are not suitable for drinking honeysuckle tea

1. People with spleen and stomach deficiency should use with caution

According to "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica", honeysuckle is "cold in nature and bitter in taste." Therefore, honeysuckle is cold in nature. If people with weak spleen and stomach or those who are weak and sickly drink it, it may increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, which is not good for their health.

2. Avoid eating during menstruation

The menstrual period is a very special time period for female friends. During this period, it is best for female friends not to eat cold food, and of course honeysuckle should not be eaten.