Does tea antidote medicine? Usually drinking Chinese medicine is not served with tea, because drinking tea will “antidote”. Tea contains a large amount of tannic acid, it is easy to insoluble precipitation with alkaloids. The active ingredients of many Chinese medicines are alkaloids, such as ephedra contains ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, Huanglian, Huangpai contains berberine, Bupleurum contains bupleurine. Other active ingredients like Yuan Hu, Da Thistle, Xiao Thistle, Chuan Niu Kne and Mandarins are also mainly alkaloids. When the water decoction of these drugs is taken with tea, precipitation will occur and affect the efficacy of the medicine. Tannic acid in tea has an astringent effect, will prevent the body’s absorption of protein and other nutrients, and therefore in taking the party ginseng, astragalus, yam and other tonic medicine, drinking tea, especially drinking strong tea, will also reduce the effectiveness of the medicine. There are very few available tea. For example, there is a famous recipe for migraine headache, called “Chuanxiong tea tuning san”, is the use of tea to serve the end of the medicine or decoction with tea, the purpose is to use the bitter cold nature of tea, clear the upper and lower to facilitate blood flow, so as to achieve the effect of quenching the wind and relieving pain, but if there is no special note, when drinking Chinese medicine and do not take with tea.