It is generally recommended to avoid drinking burdock tea during menstruation and for women with weak spleens prone to diarrhea.
Burdock tea utilizes some of the benefits of burdock seed. Burdock is the name of a traditional Chinese medicine, which belongs to the dispersing and detoxifying class of medicines. Burdock is pungent, bitter, cold, to the lungs, stomach meridian, with the evacuation of wind-heat, lungs through the rash, detoxification of the pharynx, for the treatment of wind-heat colds, coughing and phlegm, rubella, sore throat, tannin (acute infections, the visible redness of the skin like a paint).
Burdock is cold in nature, and cold is the main attraction, which may cause abdominal pain, so it should not be used by women during menstruation; in addition, burdock is strong in sliding intestines, so it should be used with caution by women who have loose qi (loose feces).
Burdock tea plays a limited role in the efficacy of burdock, not a substitute for medication, it is recommended that women consult a professional Chinese medicine practitioner or pharmacist for dosage before use, and should not use it blindly on their own.