Can tea water be used to take medicine?

When we are sick, we take medicine and drink water to make it easier for the medicine to enter the stomach. But many people don’t just drink water, and many people don’t pay attention and think that it’s “water” that can be drunk while taking medicine. You should know that you cannot take medicine with mung bean water or mung bean porridge, because mung beans have the effect of antidote, so you cannot take medicine with "water" containing mung beans. So can tea water be used as medicine? Let me introduce it to you below.

Whether or not you can take medicine with tea cannot be generalized. In most cases, it is not recommended to take medicine with tea, especially western medicines containing iron such as ferrous sulfate, ferrous carbonate, ferric acid, ferroamine, and aluminum such as aluminum hydroxide. The tea polyphenols in the tea soup will combine with metal ions and precipitate, which will reduce or lose their efficacy. also,

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Tea contains caffeine (also known as "caffeine"), which has a stimulant effect. Therefore, when taking sedatives, hypnotics, and antitussive drugs, it is not advisable to drink tea with them to avoid drug conflicts and reduce the efficacy of the drugs. Some Chinese herbal medicines, such as ephedra, coptis chinensis, quinine, diaoteng, scutellaria baicalensis, ginseng, etc., are generally not suitable for mixing with tea, otherwise the Chinese medicine will be precipitated by the tea and lose its efficacy. It is also not advisable to drink tea when taking enzyme preparations such as protease and amylase.

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The polyphenols in it can bind to enzymes and reduce their activity. Some biological alkali preparations and drugs such as atropine and aspirin should not be taken with tea. Taking furazolidone and procarbazine and drinking a small amount of tea can cause insomnia, while drinking a large amount of tea can increase blood pressure. It is generally recommended to stop drinking tea within 2 hours after taking medicine.

However, when taking vitamins, stimulants, diuretics, lipid-lowering, blood sugar-lowering, and white blood cell-raising drugs, they can generally be taken with tea. For example, drinking tea after taking vitamin C,

The catechins in it can help the absorption and accumulation of vitamin C in the human body. Tea itself has the functions of excitement, diuresis, lowering blood lipids, lowering blood sugar, and increasing white blood cells. When taking these kinds of medicines, tea has a synergistic effect.

The above content is about whether tea water can be used as medicine. It can be said that whether tea water can be used as medicine cannot be generalized. It mainly depends on the nature of the medicine you are taking, but the editor still recommends that you drink water when taking medicine, either purified water or boiled water. Of course, the editor hopes that everyone will exercise more and try not to get sick, and live a healthy life every day.