hot days, many people love to drink herbal tea refreshing, clean heat. Chinese medicine reminds us that some herbal tea is too cold and cool, damaging the spleen and stomach, prone to cause indigestion and diarrhea, the elderly, children, the infirm and some chronic diseases were careful to drink.

drinking herbal tea can be refreshing air under the fire, but still non-ordinary drinks herbal tea, more or less with herbs, drink appropriately promote health, not utility while the other hand, there is loss of body function. Registered Chinese medicine practitioners Peng Minghui said children Constitution is a “Yin Zhi Zhi Yang”, the spleen and stomach development are not yet fully mature, and if too cold and cool in the herbal medicinal Yin Yong, will further damage their stomach, causing indigestion, anorexia, diarrhea. On the contrary, such as partial physical symptoms of heat or heat if the person often tongue sores, sore throat, raw prickly heat, often bite gums, mouth pain, bad breath, thick yellow tongue coating, dry stool or constipation, can amount to drink hot herbal tea diarrhea.

Ji Yin Yong people

1. Weak health: weak constitution more than usual cold, fear the wind, sweating, blue lips and white face and often, and easily dizzy or not enough air by drinking herbal tea will not only increase after the symptoms of severe stomach will hurt, or even lead to abdominal pain and diarrhea, and more drink more Deficiency.

2. Have gastrointestinal problems were: gastroenteritis, such as patients with chronic drinking or herbal tea, will hurt the stomach, aggravate symptoms.

3. Suffering from arthritis: patients often have rheumatism, poor body moisture accumulation on behalf of the spleen and stomach, drink more herbal tea stomach hurt.

4. ︰ summer because of patients with cold cold air temperatures were too low or cold rain cause, such as the performance of the cold, runny nose, and then Yinyong herbal tea can easily add symptoms, slow disease.

5. To by the women: menstrual blood loss in a state of reduced resistance during exposure to cold and drinking herbal tea prone to cause blood stagnation, poor blood discharge, cause dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation can cause serious .

6. Pregnant women and new mothers: mothers best not to drink herbal tea, has just given birth to the baby's new mom body is extremely weak, drinking herbal tea is not only not conducive to post-natal organs function recovery, also hurt the spleen and stomach, cause abdominal Lengtong future.

7. The elderly and children three years of age: the elderly relative weakening of the spleen and stomach function, yin and yang and more virtual, Physique is “Yin Zhi Zhi Yang”, the spleen and stomach development not fully mature, and if drinking too much herbal tea cold and cool, will further damage the spleen and stomach, causing indigestion, anorexia, diarrhea.

(taken from Canada, “Sing Tao Daily”)