Can pregnant women drink senna?

Pregnant women need to take senna with caution, senna’s effects are diuretic, diarrhea and stagnation (remove heat and stagnation).
Senna is a leguminous plant narrow-leaved senna, sweet, bitter, cold. It belongs to the large intestine meridian of hand yangming. It can be used to treat symptoms such as constipation, abdominal pain and swelling of the limbs.
Senna belongs to a kind of laxative, pregnant women and lactation, menstruation should be careful to take. Taking small doses of this product can play a role in slowing down the diarrhea, heat knot constipation, can also be added to Hovenia, thick Park and other drugs taken together.
But the efficacy of the tea drink is limited, not a substitute for medication, if you are not feeling well, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, do not blindly take medication or increase the dosage without authorization, do not delay the condition.