Detoxifying bowel cleansing tea recipe and effects

The safe and effective formula of detoxifying bowel cleansing tea is mainly divided into three categories: daily mild version, menstrual period version, and after-meal emergency version. The core function is to help promote intestinal peristalsis and relieve functional constipation. There is no exaggerated effect such as "clearing toxins and slimming the whole body" spread on the Internet, and not all people are suitable for drinking.

A few years ago, when I was helping organize daily recipes at a traditional Chinese medicine restaurant, I would meet about a dozen people asking for bowel cleansing tea every day. Either they drank the popular brand and couldn't stand up, or they drank it for half a month and it didn't work. The root cause of the failure was basically not choosing the right formula or believing in over-publicity gimmicks. Last month, a girl born in 1995 came to the clinic for consultation. She said that she had to wear a dress one size too small for a wedding photo. She bought a tea recommended by a certain red book called "Cleanse the intestines in 7 days and lose 5 pounds". After drinking it for three days, her lips turned white and her face was sunken. It made her look older when she looked on the camera. It was not the effect she wanted at all. When she looked at the ingredient list, she found that 30% of senna was added - so it is not a bowel cleanser, it is just drinking laxatives.

In fact, there has always been a lot of controversy about bowel cleansing tea. The traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in our clinic believe that as long as the proportion is mild and suitable for your body constitution, bowel cleansing tea can be used as an auxiliary to your daily diet to help metabolize excess food accumulation.； However, Dr. Zhang from the gastroenterology department of a tertiary hospital whom I know clearly stated that it is not recommended for ordinary people to drink any bowel cleansing products for a long time, unless constipation occurs for more than 3 consecutive days and is confirmed by a doctor to be functional constipation, which can be relieved with mild prescriptions in the short term. Otherwise, long-term dependence will reduce the peristalsis ability of the intestines, and in severe cases may lead to colonic melanosis. In fact, these two views are not contradictory at all. The core is "don't drink randomly, don't rely on it, and choose the opposite side."

For people who often sit in the office, have constipation two or three times a week, and have no gastrointestinal problems, just use the most basic and mild formula: 3g fried cassia seeds, 2 chrysanthemums, 1 slice of dried lemon, 2g fried malt, soak in 400ml warm water. Do not use boiling water, which will destroy the vitamins in the lemon. I sit in front of the computer all year round and eat a lot of takeout on Mondays and Tuesdays. I basically drink this and drink it for most of the day. The next morning I have smooth bowel movements and no stomachache at all. It is much more cost-effective than taking probiotics. Oh, by the way, be sure to choose roasted cassia seeds. Raw cassia seeds are very cold, and people whose stomachs are afraid of cold will be prone to diarrhea after drinking them. Don’t make a mistake.

Many girls suffer from constipation as soon as they menstruate, but they dare not drink cold tea for fear of stomachache. Our restaurant specially prepared a warm bowel cleansing recipe, which basically has no contraindications: 2 pitted red dates, 3 slices of dried apples, 1g of tangerine peel, and a handful of osmanthus. When soaking, you can add a little honey and drink it sweetly. It has no medicinal taste at all. It can not only relieve constipation during menstruation, but also relieve the feeling of bloating in the lower abdomen. My bestie has dysmenorrhea and constipation. She drinks this three days before her period. She no longer has to squat on the toilet until her legs feel numb.

Of course, there are times when you can't control your cravings, such as having a hot pot barbecue with friends on the weekend and showing off two cups of iced milk tea. The next day, your stomach is so bloated that you can't even button your pants. In this case, you can use a small first aid recipe: 2g of fried hawthorn, 1g of dried lotus leaves, 1g of fried radish, add 1 flower of chrysanthemum, brew a cup and drink it. The flatulence will disappear in two or three hours, and there will be no diarrhea, just normal gas and bowel movements. But this recipe can only be used occasionally, two or three times a month at most. Drinking it every day will deplete your righteousness and weaken your intestines and stomach. Last time, the young man in our restaurant showed off three pounds of crayfish, and the next day he was so bloated that he couldn't even buckle his white coat. After making a cup of it and drinking it, he was full of energy in the afternoon.

Coming back to the question that everyone is most concerned about, "Is it an IQ tax?", I don't think it can be killed at once. If you choose the right one that suits you, it is indeed useful to relieve constipation and eliminate food accumulation occasionally, but if you believe the nonsense of "drinking for a month and defecating for ten years", then you will definitely have to pay an IQ tax. Pregnant women, nursing mothers, children under 14 years old, and people with irritable bowel syndrome and frequent diarrhea should avoid any bowel cleansing tea. If you really have constipation problems, see a doctor and don’t drink it on your own.

I have been doing this for five or six years, and my biggest feeling is that all the conditioning remedies are auxiliary. If you stay up late every day and eat heavy oil and salt every day, even drinking bowel cleansing tea every day will be of no use. Eat more vegetables and take two more steps. It is better than anything else. At most, bowel cleansing tea is an "emergency patch". Don't treat it as a magic medicine.