Citronella can be used medicinally, and there is no authoritative study to clarify its harm to pregnant women, but pregnant women who need to use Chinese herbs should first consult a doctor and use them as prescribed.
The Guangdong Provincial Standard for Chinese Materia Medica has recorded that lemongrass is the dried above-ground part of the grass plant lemongrass, which is warm in nature and has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing the channels, warming the middle and relieving pain (relieving pain by warming the spleen and stomach), and inducing dampness and stopping diarrhea.
Citronella can be used for the treatment of external wind-cold headache, headache, rheumatic paralysis, cold pain in the epigastrium (stomach and abdomen feel cold pain), diarrhea, edema, foot fungus and other conditions.
There is no authoritative research pointing out that lemongrass is harmful to pregnant women, but for the sake of safety and rational use of medication, pregnant women and other people using Chinese herbs should be under the guidance of a doctor’s diagnosis and should not be used on their own.