Can I drink green tea during menstruation? It should be noted that women can't drink strong tea during menstruation. Tea contains as much as 30%-50% tannic acid, which will hinder the absorption and utilization of iron by intestinal mucosa, and it is easy to precipitate with iron in chyme or iron stone in blood-enriching drugs in the intestine. Caffeine and theophylline in this kind of drinks are easy to stimulate the nervous and cardiovascular systems, resulting in uncomfortable symptoms such as menstrual pain, prolonged menstrual period and excessive menstrual blood.
You can soak Lycium barbarum in water, pay attention to protect your eyes and avoid rubbing your eyes with your hands. It is recommended to have a light diet, drink plenty of water, eat more fruits, don't use your eyes for a long time, avoid staying up late and ensure adequate sleep. Lycium barbarum is not suitable for everyone, because it has a strong effect of warming and nourishing the body, so patients with colds, fever, inflammation, diarrhea and high blood pressure had better not eat it. Green tea and Lycium barbarum should not be brewed together, because a large amount of tannic acid contained in green tea has convergence and adsorption effects, which will adsorb trace elements in Lycium barbarum and generate substances that are difficult for the human body to absorb.
Drinking tea during menstruation may cause constipation. Due to the secretion of luteinizing hormone, some women will have constipation during menstruation. Tea contains more tannic acid, which has astringent effect and can slow down intestinal peristalsis, thus causing stool to stay in the intestine. For some women, drinking tea during menstruation may aggravate menstrual pain. During menstruation, women are often accompanied by different degrees of mental stress, headache, breast pain and other reactions due to changes in neuroendocrine regulation function. Caffeine, theophylline and other substances in tea have exciting effects, which will aggravate menstrual reactions such as headache and backache.
What are the benefits of drinking green tea? Green tea is unfermented. It is the most abundant and widely consumed tea in China. It is characterized by clear soup and green leaves. Efficacy and function of green tea: In Britain, tea is a healthy liquid and a spiritual drink. It is called "national drink" in China. A large number of studies in modern science have confirmed that tea does contain biochemical components closely related to human health. Tea not only has the pharmacological effects of refreshing brain, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, resolving food stagnation, relieving fatigue and losing weight, clearing away heart fire and vexation, relieving hangover, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, reducing fire and improving eyesight, stopping dysentery and removing dampness, but also has certain pharmacological effects on modern diseases such as radiation sickness, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and cancer. The main components with pharmacological effects in tea are tea polyphenols, caffeine, lipopolysaccharide, theanine and so on.
From the five elements, summer belongs to fire, five internal organs belong to heart, and heart belongs to fire. Therefore, summer health should first pay attention to nourishing the heart. Green tea contains flavonol, which has good antioxidant effect, can also prevent thrombosis and platelet aggregation, and can effectively reduce cardiovascular diseases. At the same time, summer is easy to make people fidgety, weak spleen and stomach, sleepy and weak. In TCM regimen, you should eat bitter food in summer. And green tea tastes sweet, "quiet but not bitter, it doesn't matter if you take a sip." Drinking it in summer can relieve summer heat, refresh the mind, and also have obvious effects on stimulating appetite, strengthening spleen and benefiting stomach.