Drinking senna leaves for a long time on may damage the spleen and stomach, causing bad effects on the body.
Senna is the legume family mountain lentil plant narrow-leaved senna dry leaflets, sweet, bitter, cold. It belongs to the large intestine meridian. It has the efficacy of diarrhea and stagnation, laxative, diuretic, and can be used for heat stagnation, constipation and abdominal pain, edema and fullness. If you follow the doctor’s instructions, the use of symptomatic, is not harmful to the body.
Senna in small doses can play a slow diarrhea, large doses can be attacked. Women breastfeeding, menstruation and pregnant women should not be used.
Senna is bitter cold, and has the effect of diarrhea, so long-term use may damage the spleen and stomach, may cause nausea, vomiting, stomach pain and other symptoms of spleen and stomach discomfort.
Therefore, it is not recommended that patients take this medicine for a long time, should be used under the guidance of a doctor, if the symptoms disappear, it should be discontinued in a timely manner.