Can Luo Han Guo be consumed for a long time?

Monk fruit is a food that many people use to make tea. However, there are many things to pay attention to when drinking monk fruit tea. For example, monk fruit tea cannot be drunk every day. Drinking monk fruit tea in excess for a long time will have certain side effects on human health. So, what is the best way to drink monk fruit tea? Below we will introduce the relevant knowledge in detail!

1. Can monk fruit be consumed every day?

We all know that when things reach their extremes, they will turn into their opposites.

Luo Han Guo is sweet, cool in nature, non-toxic, and enters the lungs and spleen meridians. It has the function of clearing the lungs and moistening the intestines. It has a good therapeutic effect on constipation caused by dry blood, cough due to phlegm and fire, sore throat, carbuncles, sores, and boils. For sore throat, lung heat, etc. caused by getting angry, drinking monk fruit tea every day for a short period of time is very good and can cure it quickly.

However, drinking monk fruit water every day will cause more cold air to accumulate in the body, which will damage the yang energy of the spleen and stomach to a certain extent. Moreover, sore throat or chronic pharyngitis in Western medicine may not necessarily be classified as a heat syndrome in Chinese medicine. Many people suffer from cold. In this case, it is not suitable to use monk fruit water. Drinking it every day will only aggravate the condition.

If you often soak monk fruit in water when you are not sick, it will cause unnecessary burden on your liver. If you are not sick, don't drink monk fruit water often. You should not drink monk fruit water every day. Drinking it occasionally can help clear the lungs and moisten the intestines.

2. What are the benefits of drinking monk fruit soaked in water?

Luo Han Guo has the effect of clearing the throat and is especially suitable for people who talk a lot. If you feel discomfort in your throat, you can drink one-third of a monk fruit brewed in boiling water every day. Monk fruit is also helpful for patients with chronic pharyngitis. Patients with chronic pharyngitis can take one monk fruit tea every week to maintain their throat.

Although monk fruit is sweet, it does not produce calories because the sweetness comes from triterpenoid compounds. It is very suitable for people who should not eat sugar due to diabetes, high blood pressure, etc., and it can also play a certain anti-cancer role. In addition, the glycosides in monk fruit also have the effect of lowering blood sugar.

Because monk fruit is cool in nature and sweet in taste, it also has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood. For patients with febrile diseases such as phlegm-heat cough, lung heat, etc., soaking monk fruit in water can clear away heat and reduce fire, promote salivation and quench thirst, and relieve cough and reduce phlegm in the early or late stages.

Monk fruit can not only clear away heat and cool blood, but also clear the lungs. For smokers, you can drink Monk fruit soaked water to clean and maintain the lungs.

Monk fruit is a crude fiber food. Long-term drinking of monk fruit tea can stimulate gastrointestinal motility, promote digestion, and help lose weight.

3. Side effects of drinking monk fruit soaked in water

We all know that we cannot drink overnight tea, and the same applies to soaking monk fruit in water. Because any food will start to spoil after six hours, monk fruit is no exception, so never drink it overnight.

Many people are accustomed to drying the monk fruit and then soaking it in water for consumption. In fact, this is wrong because dried monk fruit is more likely to cause internal heat after consumption.