People who should not drink black tea

Health benefits of black tea

Multidisciplinary physician Bui Dac Sang, Hanoi Oriental Medicine Association, said that black xạ, with the scientific name Celastrus hindsii Benth, is known by other names such as white thousand flowers, hundred-solution tree, and pillow tree.

This is a woody vine that clings to large trees when growing wild, and when planted, the branches will cling to each other to form clumps. In our country, the black xạ tree grows wild in many forests in the mountainous areas of the North such as Ninh Binh and Hoa Binh.

In Oriental medicine, xạ đen has a bitter taste, cold properties, and the effect of regulating menstruation, diuretic, treating boils, ulcers, reducing inflammation, cooling the liver and gallbladder, reducing secretions and enhancing the body's resistance. Because of these wonderful uses, xạ đen is trusted and used by many people.

Below are the health benefits of the black tea plant:

- Support tumor treatment

In black tea contains 2 compounds fanavolnoid and quinone, the effect of liquefying dysplastic cells. These two drugs help slow the growth of tumors when they first form. Some scientific studies have proven the effect of preventing and supporting the treatment of tumors. However, everything is still in the research stage.

- Support treatment of high blood pressure

Xạ đen helps regulate unstable blood pressure. Using xạ đen to support the treatment of high blood pressure is also very simple. Just boil xạ đen leaves with water to drink every day, or make tea to drink every day.

- Support treatment of fatty blood, fatty liver

Using black xạ is good for people with fatty blood, as proven by the research of the Military Medical Academy. Using water boiled from this medicinal plant every day, the condition of fatty blood or fat in the liver is improved quite well.

- Improve sleep, treat nervous breakdown

The black xạ plant has a slightly astringent, bitter taste and a cold nature, which is good for people with frequent insomnia due to nervous breakdown or anemia (yin deficiency and excess fire according to oriental medicine). In addition, black xạ helps increase blood circulation to the brain, treating dizziness.

People who should not drink black tea

According to Dr. Hoang Sam, Vietnam Institute of Traditional Medicine, xạ đen is a precious medicinal plant that used to grow wild. Later, xạ đen was widely planted in gardens by people to drink instead of tea. In some areas, people grow xạ đen to take leaves and stems to sell as traditional medicine. Xạ đen leaves are best harvested from October.

Xạ đen is known for its liver-healing effects. In Hoa Binh, the Muong ethnic group has long boiled xạ đen water for people with symptoms of yellow skin and bloating to drink.

Later, xạ đen was also used as a medicine to treat allergies, treat acne, stop bleeding, reduce blood fat, increase blood pressure, treat emaciation, digestive disorders, help with appetite, cool blood, clear menstruation and diuretic. Treat irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, insomnia, jaundice, and infertility.

Xạ đen is benign and has few side effects, so it can be used by a wide range of people, including people with cancer, even in the final stages, high blood pressure, increased liver enzymes, hepatitis B, and benign tumors such as uterine fibroids and breast fibroids.

People can boil fresh black leaf to make water to drink or dry it to make tea.

Because xạ đen has the effect of lowering blood pressure, people with low blood pressure should not use it. Xạ đen leaves have the ability to detoxify, so the kidneys will have to work harder, so people with weak kidneys or kidney failure should limit the use of this herb. In addition, pregnant women and children under 5 years old should also avoid it.