What diseases should not drink perilla leaf water?

Effects of perilla leaf water

Lao Dong newspaper quoted VFA website as saying that fresh perilla juice is easy to drink, refreshing and contains many health benefits.

Cold relief support

Perilla is classified in traditional medicine as a medicine to relieve symptoms of the exterior, which is understood as a cold remedy used to treat symptoms of the exterior in the early stages of the disease. There are many ways for patients to use it, such as cooking onion porridge with perilla, which stimulates gastric juice secretion and has the effect of sweating to relieve colds; boiling perilla leaf water and then steaming the whole body. However, the appropriate method for both children and the elderly is to boil perilla leaf water and drink it while it is still warm.

Skin care from the inside

With antibacterial ingredients that help fight inflammation quite well, perilla has properties that help reduce swelling. Many women use fresh perilla leaf juice to help reduce acne, pustules, etc. Drinking perilla leaf juice will stimulate secretion through sweat glands, thereby increasing the excretion of toxins that are harmful to the body in general and the skin in particular.

Perilla leaf water is good for health but not suitable for some people.

Support for people with gout

Perilla leaves contain active ingredients that reduce the concentration of uric acid in the user's blood. This helps improve the condition of people with gout. However, patients should still consult their doctor to balance the use of the prescribed medication.

What diseases should not drink perilla leaf water?

Although perilla leaf juice is good for health, not everyone can drink it. Health & Life Newspaper quoted Traditional Medicine Practitioner Tran Dang Tai - Vice President of the Oriental Medicine Association of Thai Hoa town - Nghe An as saying that perilla has a spicy, warm nature, so people with wind-cold (with symptoms of high fever, chills, sweating, thirst...), especially those who are hot-tempered, weak, tired, and often have colds, should not use it. People with fever and sweating should not use it.

Perilla also has a certain effect in increasing blood sugar levels, so diabetics should be careful when using it.

In addition, physician Tai also advises not to eat too much perilla leaves, because perilla contains a large amount of oxalic acid. When oxalic acid meets calcium and zinc in the human body, it will form calcium oxalate and zinc oxalate. The human body will damage the nervous system, digestive system and blood-forming function of the human body.

Absolutely do not eat crucian carp cooked with perilla leaves because it can cause poisoning and ulcers.

If perilla is used for a long time, people with spleen and stomach deficiency will have diarrhea. People with qi and yin deficiency should not eat perilla.

Ha An (Synthesis)

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