Tea to send medicine has avoid has appropriate

WangHaiTing Shandong university of Chinese medicine

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Tea in China has a long history, a lot of people like drinking tea. Drinking tea can help digest, solution, diuresis, put to constipation greasy, long-term drinking tea can prevent caries, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis and the disease such as cancer, but tea contains many types of structure of complex chemical components, such as theophylline, tannic acid, caffeine, theobromine, can with some medicines in physical and chemical reaction, fight or interference drug, affect drug absorption, make the therapeutic efficacy of drugs to reduce or failure even happen adverse reactions. Especially the following a few drugs should avoid take with tea.

        Alkaloids drug tea in the tea polyphenols accounts for about 20% ~ 25% of the dry weight, tea polyphenols and berberine, methamphetamine, such as drug scopolamine alkaloids drug reaction generated the undissolved organic alkali precipitation, which affect the drugs in the body absorb, common such medicines are: HuangLianSu, ephedrine, belladonna dramas.

        Contains metal ions drugs

        Tea polyphenol called tea tannins, in body, easy to break down into the tan, tannic acid can and drug of metal ions generation insoluble in water of the tannic acid compounds, such as anemia and treatment of iron agent generation tannins iron, and treatment of aluminum hydroxide formation ulcer tan.

        Enzyme preparation such as pepsin, pancreatic enzyme piece, much more enzymatic, lysozyme, these drugs is the chemical nature of the protein, the tea polyphenols combining with enzymes, reducing the activity of enzymes, Tea with the tannic acid medicines in action, can generate insoluble precipitation and reduce efficacy.

        Tranquilize mind medicine is tea in the alkaloids mainly purine alkali, most of caffeine, the rest of the and theobromine, theophylline, etc. Caffeine and theophylline, have excited central nervous function, can reduce diazepam (settle), ai (department of hebron (Robert h. schuller stability), and other benzodiazepine and barbiturates drug composed effect.

        Single oxidase, such as dysentery ase, benzene inhibitors hydrazine b, procarbazine, stuffy coke, optimal drop ning, a small amount drinking tea can cause insomnia, a large number of drinking tea can make the elevated blood pressure.

        Contain sodium bicarbonate of soda, lack of drugs such as food, children of tablets, for tea in tannic acid can make these drugs of the effective components and decomposition, reduce efficacy.

        Traditional Chinese medicine of having tonic contain saponins, alkaloids and tea polyphenols combining, produce can't be absorbed by human body deposits, which can reduce the role of the supplements compensation. Commonly used supplements such as ginseng, astragalus, first the cultivated land, and so on, all contains many alkaloids and other active substances, therefore, in taking tonic, unfavorable also tea, more can not to tea and water to take supplements.

        However, not all drugs can't and tea with clothing, tea itself has excited, diuresis, reducing blood fat, fall blood sugar, litre white, and other functions, therefore, taking vitamins drugs, doping, diuretics, reducing blood fat, fall blood sugar, litre white drugs, tea have synergistic effect, generally available take tea. For example, taking vitamin C after drinking tea, tea in the catechin can help vitamin C in the body absorb and accumulation. Use tea when taking medicine, should use light tea and water temperature is unfavorable and exorbitant, warm water can.