Can you drink tea with traditional Chinese medicine

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I often see some people drink too much and then drink tea, saying that tea can relieve alcohol. If tea can relieve alcohol, then can tea also make traditional Chinese medicine ineffective? So today, let's see if drinking traditional Chinese medicine can relieve tea.

Can you drink tea with traditional Chinese medicine

First, traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is best not to drink tea while taking traditional Chinese medicine. Because the chemical composition of tea will not only reduce or affect the efficacy of drugs, but also produce some side effects, so tea can not be used to take medicine. In addition, under normal circumstances, drinking Chinese medicine is not tea delivery service, because tea will "antidote.".

Second: the specific reason is that tea contains a lot of tannic acid, which is easy to produce insoluble precipitation with alkaloids. The active ingredients of many traditional Chinese medicines are alkaloids, such as ephedrine and pseudoephedrine in ephedra, berberine in Coptis chinensis and Phellodendron amurense, and Stemona in Stemona. Other active ingredients such as Radix Corydalis, Cirsium japonicum, Cirsium japonicum, Achyranthes bidentata and Datura stramonium are mainly alkaloids.

Third: when the decoction of these drugs is taken with tea, precipitation will occur and affect the efficacy. At the same time, the tannic acid in tea has a astringent effect, which will prevent the body from absorbing nutrients such as protein. Therefore, when taking tonic drugs such as Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus and yam, drinking tea water, especially strong tea, will also reduce the efficacy.

matters needing attention

Through the analysis of the principle, we know that tea can indeed relieve alcohol and medicine, especially traditional Chinese medicine. Therefore, friends who have the habit of drinking tea, especially traditional Chinese medicine, can only stop drinking tea for a while.