Side effects and contraindications of Dendrobium flowers

Dendrobium officinale is a Chinese herbal medicine that can be taken orally. It not only has medicinal value and excellent effects, but also has very high nutritional value. After people take it normally, they can absorb rich nutrients and improve their physical fitness. However, it is a Chinese herbal medicine after all, and there are many things that require special attention when taking it. And when people use it to make tea, they must also pay attention to its taboos.

What should you pay attention to when eating Dendrobium candidum flowers?

1. When eating Dendrobium officinale flowers, you must be careful not to take them together with other Chinese herbal medicines with laxative effects, such as croton, coptis root and hemp seed. Otherwise, their laxative effects will be enhanced, causing obvious diarrhea in the body. In severe cases, it will cause dehydration of the body, which is extremely harmful to health.

2. When eating Dendrobium officinale flowers, be careful not to eat radish. Although they are not in conflict with each other, radish is a food that can promote qi and moisten the intestines. It will accelerate the gastrointestinal motility of the body. If you eat it with Dendrobium officinale flowers, it will reduce the staying time of Dendrobium officinale flowers in the human body, which is not conducive to the body's digestion and utilization of nutrients in the food flowers.

3. When eating dendrobium flowers, you should also be careful to avoid eating those herbal medicines that have the effect of clearing away heat and reducing fire, such as honeysuckle tea, dandelion flowers, and Houttuynia cordata root. Because Dendrobium officinale flower itself is a kind of herbal medicine with cold properties, which can clear away heat and reduce fire. If it is eaten together with those herbal medicines that can clear away heat and reduce fire, the amount of cold air in the body will increase, which is easy to cause qi and blood deficiency and will also weaken our physical fitness.

Taboos of drinking water soaked with Dendrobium officinale flowers

1. The key introduction to drinking Dendrobium officinale flower tea is that you cannot use it to soak in water for a long time, because although the food flower is good, it is indeed a Chinese herbal medicine. If you use it to soak in water for a long time, it is easy for the medicinal ingredients in the food to accumulate in the body and turn into substances that are harmful to the body, which is bad for your health. In addition, people suffering from fever and colds and people with cold evil entering the body are strictly prohibited from drinking water soaked with Dendrobium officinale flowers, because it has a certain astringent effect. Drinking water soaked with it is not conducive to the dissipation of dampness in the human body, which is very bad for the recovery of the disease.