What are the side effects of boat sterculia seed? Understand clearly before drinking
Boat sterculia seed has the effects of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, soothing the throat and opening the voice, and moistening the intestines to relieve constipation. Some people treat boat sterculia seed as a specific remedy for hoarseness, causing them to brew boat sterculia seed as a health drink and take it temporarily. Doing so often backfires, causing many adverse reactions, leading to deficiency cold of the middle energizer spleen and stomach, loose and watery stools, reduced food intake, stuffy and uncomfortable epigastric and abdominal distension, and even side effects such as weight loss.
What are the side effects of boat sterculia seed?
Boat sterculia seed can be used both as medicine and food, but after all, "every medicine has some toxicity." Drinking boat sterculia seed temporarily without identifying the cause or distinguishing the constitution will harm health. Boat sterculia seed is not the same as varieties that are both medicine and food, such as lily, lotus seed, and adzuki bean; it is a pure Chinese medicine. When drunk, its toxicity needs to be excreted through the kidneys and liver. If drunk temporarily, it will bring a burden to the kidney and liver systems.
The medicinal effects of boat sterculia seed
[Nature and flavor] Sweet in flavor, cold in nature.
[Meridian entry] Lung and large intestine meridians.
[Effects] Clears heat and moistens the lungs, soothes the throat and opens the voice, moistens the intestines and relieves constipation. It mainly treats lung heat with hoarseness, dry cough without phlegm, dry and painful throat, heat constipation, headache, and red eyes.
Medicinal indications and contraindications of boat sterculia seed
1. Contraindicated for those with a cold.
2. When drunk as a tea substitute, no more than 3 seeds each time to prevent poisoning.
3. Boat sterculia seed has a counterfeit, round-seeded Sterculia lychnophora, which can also expand when soaked in water, but is not used as medicine. Please pay attention to identification.