1. Can pregnant women drink barley tea?
Barley tea is a very good summer diuretic, and many people hate its taste. In fact, it is the healthiest drink. Has the functions of invigorating spleen, promoting digestion, clearing away heat, quenching thirst, lowering qi and promoting diuresis. It is mainly used for clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating spleen and losing weight, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, removing fishy smell and greasy, and helping digestion. Most importantly, barley tea does not contain theophylline, caffeine, tannin and so on. And it doesn't stimulate nerves and affect sleep, so barley tea is suitable for pregnant women.
According to Compendium of Materia Medica, barley is sweet and flat. It has the effects of calming stomach, quenching thirst, eliminating heat, invigorating qi, regulating middle warmer, broadening chest, lowering qi, promoting digestion, resolving food stagnation, tonifying deficiency, strengthening blood vessels, benefiting qi, protecting five internal organs, and dissolving grains. Moreover, barley tea is one of the five grains and a very healthy food. For the benefits of drinking barley tea, it can cool off the heat and promote appetite, and it is also a good way to protect the stomach.
In fact, jasmine tea is also suitable for pregnant women to drink, because it is fresh and pleasant, rich in chlorophyll, catechin, tea polyphenols, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and other nutrients, which can eliminate toxins and excess water in the body, promote blood and water metabolism, and is suitable for pregnant women to drink, and has the effects of calming the nerves, invigorating the spleen and regulating qi, and improving immunity.
Pregnant women can drink barley tea properly, without side effects and affecting their health. Especially in summer, barley tea can relieve summer heat and is a very good health drink. Pregnant women must pay attention to a reasonable diet, not picky eaters and anorexia, so as to ensure the health of the fetus and themselves.
2. Be careful about the food you eat during pregnancy
1. Aloe: According to the data provided by China Institute of Food Science and Technology, if pregnant women drink aloe juice excessively, it is easy to cause abdominal pain, vomiting, bloody stool and even abortion.
2. Crab: Crab tastes delicious, but it is cold and has the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, so it has adverse effects on pregnant women and should be eaten with caution.
3, coix seed: Chinese medicine believes that coix seed is slippery, has an exciting effect on uterine smooth muscle, can promote uterine contraction and induce abortion, so it should be used with caution.
4, Portulaca oleracea: Portulaca oleracea is cold and slippery, which has obvious exciting effect on the uterus, which can increase the number of uterine contractions and increase the intensity, which is easy to cause abortion, so it should be used with caution.
6, apricots and almonds: Because of the heavy fetal heat during pregnancy, you should generally eat light food before delivery, and the calories of apricots, eating too many apricots at a time, will also cause excessive fire, so pregnant women should be cautious.
7. Turtle: Because the turtle is salty and cold, it has a strong effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, so it has certain disadvantages for abortion. Pregnant women should eat it carefully.
8. Pepper: Eating pepper in moderation is beneficial to people's comprehensive nutrition. However, excessive consumption of pepper will stimulate the stomach, cause constipation and accelerate blood flow. If it belongs to placenta previa, it should be absolutely forbidden to eat.
9, pepper, star anise, cinnamon, spiced powder: these are spicy condiments, easy to consume intestinal water, reduce intestinal secretion, resulting in intestinal dryness and constipation, pregnant women should try to eat less or not.