Drink different herbal tea varieties

For herbal tea change the variety more often

05/02/2015

When it storms and snows outside, a cup of herbal tea is very pleasant. If you drink tea frequently, you should regularly change the variety and the manufacturer. This was pointed out by Helmut Schafft from the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment at the Green Week Green Week in January. Certain phytochemicals contained in herbal tea can permanently damage the liver.

Drink different sorts of herbal tea
Very popular is, for example, fennel tea. Among other things it can help with indigestion, bloating, stomach pains and colic as well as menstrual cramps. Nevertheless, a pot of fennel per day over a longer period would be too much of a good thing. The same is true with many other herbal teas. Because these contain so-called Pyrrolizidinalkaloide (PA), phytochemicals, which is to protect the plant against predators. Even for humans, these substances are unhealthy. Thus, they can cause liver damage in a high dose and promote cancers, so Creates. Therefore, consumers should switch as often as possible between variety and manufacturer. In this way one could avoid taking up too much PA in the long term.

Pregnant women, breastfeeding women and older women in particular should pay attention to this and replace herbal teas with other drinks over and over again. Even babies should not only drink tea exclusively.

In addition to herbal tea, PA is also found in honey and salads. In addition, in this country they are contained in, for example, St. Jacob's cress, the Common Greiskraut and the Adder's Head. PA are very stable and heat resistant, so they do not break when overbrewed with hot water. (Ag)

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