Can pregnant women drink tea? In principle, women can drink tea during pregnancy, but not all types of tea are suitable for pregnant women. Tea contains special ingredients, and there are many different types of tea. It is important not to drink tea indiscriminately, as it may affect the health of both the mother and the fetus.
1. Green Tea
Green tea refers to unfermented tea tree leaves and buds, which are dried and processed to maintain the green color of fresh tea leaves. The main types of green tea include Biluochun, Longjing, Yunwu, Maojian, and Yuhua.
How to drink: For high-quality green tea, use the pour-over method. Pour 75-85 degrees Celsius hot water into a cup and add 3-5 grams of tea leaves. For regular green tea, use the steeping method. Add 3-5 grams of tea leaves and pour in 85 degrees Celsius hot water.
Benefits: Green tea contains tea polyphenols, minerals, vitamins, and other nutrients that can strengthen the heart and kidney functions of pregnant women, promote digestion, blood circulation, and prevent edema. It is also rich in zinc, which promotes fetal growth and development.
Precautions:
1. Drink green tea in moderation, avoid excessive consumption at one time.
2. Brew green tea with a lighter taste, avoid drinking it too strong.
2. Chrysanthemum Tea
Chrysanthemum tea, made from dried chrysanthemum flowers, has a bitter and slightly cold taste. It has the effect of clearing heat and dampness and has no significant side effects.
How to drink: Use a transparent glass cup and steep about 3 grams (four or five flowers) of chrysanthemum in hot water. Drink it three times a day. You can also add rock sugar or co-brew with honeysuckle and licorice.
Benefits: Calms the liver, improves eyesight, clears heat, and detoxifies the body.
Precautions:
1. Chrysanthemum has a cold nature, so avoid drinking too much at one time and keep the taste light.
2. Do not drink all the chrysanthemum tea at once. Leave about one-third and add fresh tea water before drinking again.
3. Pregnant women with weak spleen and cold stomach should not drink chrysanthemum tea.
3. Rose Tea
Rose tea is a flower tea made by mixing edible fresh rose flowers with tea buds in a certain ratio and processed through special techniques.
How to drink: Warm the tea cup first, rinse the rose tea quickly with warm water, and then add about five rose buds to the teaware and pour in 60-70 degrees Celsius hot water. You can also add jujube, goji berries, honeysuckle, etc. to brew together.
Benefits: Beautifies the skin, relieves liver depression, promotes metabolism, effectively removes fat and toxins.
Precautions:
1. Rose tea should not be brewed with boiling water.
2. Pregnant women with cold stomach and diarrhea should not drink rose tea.
3. Avoid excessive consumption at one time.
4. Barley Tea
Barley tea is a type of tea made from roasted barley.
How to drink: Place the tea cup with roasted barley. Pour hot water and steep for 2-3 minutes before drinking.
Benefits: Clears heat, quenches thirst, stimulates appetite, aids digestion, helps with weight loss, and nourishes the skin.
Precautions:
1. Pregnant women with constipation, high blood pressure, and heart disease should not drink barley tea.
2. Barley has the effect of reducing milk supply, so lactating women should avoid drinking it.
3. Do not drink barley tea on an empty stomach.
5. Hibiscus Tea
Hibiscus tea is a tea made from boiling hibiscus flowers. It can be brewed with honey, rock sugar, dried tangerine peel, etc.
How to drink: Put half a cup of water in a pot, add hibiscus flowers, and simmer over low heat. Pour out the water when it boils, add an appropriate amount of honey, and stir before drinking.
Benefits: Enhances calcium absorption, clears heat and diuresis, moistens the mouth and relieves thirst, improves constipation, clears the liver and relieves irritability, improves sleep quality.
Precautions:
1. Hibiscus flowers have a slightly cold nature. It is suitable to drink in the early and middle stages of pregnancy, but it is best to avoid drinking in the later stages of pregnancy.
2. Pregnant women with excessive gastric acid should drink less.
