Bitter Melon Tea

Introduction to Bitter Melon Tea

Bitter melon tea is a natural health tea drink that has become quite popular in recent years and is favored by many friends. Do you know what the side effects of bitter melon tea are?

Before talking about the side effects of bitter melon tea, let's first understand what bitter melon tea is: the production process of bitter melon tea is relatively simple, select the bitter melons that are moderately mature → wash → remove the pulp → slice → dry and dehydrate in the drying room → soften → dry again and pack → finished product. The finished tea is easy to carry, and can be used as tea after brewing with boiling water, and can be used as a daily drink. People brew it as tea in summer, which clears away heat and relieves summer heat, has a moderate bitterness, and is refreshing and delicious.

The efficacy and function of bitter melon tea

Bitter melon has extremely high nutritional value and contains a variety of nutrients. It is rich in vitamin B1 and can prevent and treat beriberi, maintain normal heart function, promote milk secretion and increase appetite.

The vitamin C contained in bitter melon is 10 to 20 times that of cucumber and loofah. It has the functions of preventing scurvy, protecting cell membranes, detoxifying, preventing atherosclerosis, fighting cancer, improving the body's stress capacity, preventing colds, and protecting the heart. Bitter melon contains a substance similar to insulin, polypeptide-P, which has the effect of lowering blood sugar.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bitter melon is bitter and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying, relieving fatigue, stimulating appetite, and invigorating qi and strengthening yang. It can be used to prevent and treat heatstroke, fever, thirst due to fever, red eyes due to liver heat, enteritis, dysentery, loss of appetite, carbuncles, erysipelas, ulcers, short and red urine, etc.

It has the effects of cooling and quenching thirst for the heart, lungs and stomach, removing evil heat, treating toxic fire, purging the six meridians' real fire, invigorating qi and quenching thirst, relieving fatigue, clearing the heart and improving eyesight, enhancing appetite, nourishing blood and liver, moistening the spleen and tonifying the kidneys.

① Diabetes or heatstroke due to fever, thirst and drinking.

② Red and white dysentery.

③Red and painful eyes, carbuncles, erysipelas, and malignant ulcers.

Side effects and contraindications of bitter melon tea

What are the side effects of bitter melon tea that we don't know about? According to traditional Chinese medicine, in addition to the cold nature of bitter melon tea, people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much. Bitter melon contains quinine, which can stimulate uterine contraction and cause miscarriage. Therefore, some people advocate that pregnant women should not eat bitter melon. Although the content of quinine in bitter melon is very small, it is fine for pregnant women to eat a moderate amount. However, for the sake of caution, pregnant women should eat less bitter melon.

It is not recommended for people with weak spleen and stomach, cold abdominal pain, and diarrhea.

How to brew bitter melon tea

Brewing method

1. First boil water in a small pot, add bitter melon tea and turn to low heat to cook for about one minute, then pour the bitter melon tea into the teapot and drink it when the tea color becomes thick. This method of brewing releases the most intense tea aroma, but it takes a long time and is complicated.

2. Put the bitter melon tea in a teapot or filter, and pour in boiling water directly. The bitter melon will quickly expand and emit fragrance in real time, but the disadvantage is that it is easy to crush the flowers and plants and produce tea debris.

3. Pour half a pot of hot water into the teapot, then put the bitter melon tea in, and then fill it up with hot water. This way of brewing will make the tea soup cleaner, but because the flowers and plants expand more slowly than the previous two methods, the tea color will be lighter.

4. Fill the teapot with hot water first, then put the bitter melon tea in to soak. This method can keep the shape of flowers and plants intact. In addition, the soaking time can be longer. At this time, the flowers and plants will expand slowly and the tea fragrance will be lighter.

Medicinal value of bitter melon tea

Bitter melon tea is made of high-quality fresh bitter melon and lotus seed core as the main raw materials. It uses new low-temperature technology and scientific processing to retain the natural biological activity of bitter melon. It is a pure, easy to brew, fragrant,