Can I drink herbal tea when I am pregnant?

Women will experience many adverse reactions after pregnancy, such as nausea and vomiting, lack of energy, insomnia, physical fatigue, etc. There are many taboos for women when they are pregnant, such as not being able to smoke, not being able to drink, not being able to eat irritating foods, etc. Herbal tea is a common food in people's daily life. So, can you drink herbal tea when you are pregnant? Let's introduce it in detail below.

Pregnant women should not drink herbal tea.

Herbal tea has the effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying and preventing getting angry. Drinking herbal tea regularly for daily health care can promptly remove toxins from the human body, clear away heat and reduce fire, and improve the body's immunity. However, for pregnant women, it is best not to eat or drink too cold food and beverages in the early stages of pregnancy. Therefore, pregnant women should not drink herbal tea to avoid affecting their bodies. Disadvantages of drinking herbal tea for pregnant women:

It causes uterine contractions

Generally, herbal tea contains many Chinese medicinal materials, such as honeysuckle, rose, kuding tea, chrysanthemum, perilla, oroxylum, ophiopogon, bamboo leaves, etc. These are all cold medicinal materials, which will slow down the blood flow in pregnant women and cause abdominal pain and uterine contractions.

Affects physical fitness

Herbal tea also contains Prunella Vulgaris. If pregnant women with weak constitutions drink it, it may easily lead to a cold constitution and is also bad for the uterus.

Affects fetal development

Herbal tea, especially processed herbal tea, contains additives that are not conducive to the growth and development of the fetus.

Health hazards

Tea contains tannic acid, which can combine with the iron in pregnant women's food to form a complex that cannot be absorbed by the body.

Be careful with people who eat

People with weak constitution

People with weak constitutions usually have symptoms such as fear of cold, wind, and excessive sweating. Drinking herbal tea will not only make the symptoms worse, but in severe cases it will also damage the spleen and stomach, and even cause abdominal pain and diarrhea. People with qi deficiency should drink ginseng tea made from American ginseng, Pseudostellaria heterophylla, etc. instead of herbal tea in summer.

Cold

In summer, if patients who catch a cold due to low air conditioning temperature or being caught in the rain show symptoms of being afraid of cold and having a runny nose, drinking herbal tea will easily aggravate the symptoms and will not be conducive to the cure of the cold.