Lotus leaf tea has a certain effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, so it is not recommended to drink lotus leaf tea during menstruation without indications.
Lotus leaf tea belongs to the heat-clearing class of medicinal recipes, mainly composed of lotus leaves, suitable for drinking in the summer, has a certain effect of clearing heat. Lotus leaf is the dried leaf of lotus plant of water lily family, bitter taste, flat nature, belonging to the liver, spleen, stomach meridian, has the effect of clearing summer heat and dampness, ascending the Qingyang (the nutrition of the digested food will be transported to the head and face and other parts of the body), cooling the blood and stopping bleeding.
Lotus leaf is often used in the treatment of summer-heat and thirst, summer-dampness and diarrhea, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, blood-heat epistaxis (vomiting of blood and nosebleed due to blood-heat), blood in the stool and leakage (excessive menstruation or spotting), etc. It is also used in the treatment of blood-heat and epistaxis. Its adverse reactions and contraindications are not clear.
Tea brewed with lotus leaves will also have some of the above functions, so if lotus leaf tea is taken during menstruation without any indication of lotus leaves, it may lead to decreased menstrual flow and prolonged menstruation, therefore, it is not recommended to be consumed by women during menstruation.
Women need to pay attention to warmth during menstruation, prohibit eating cold food, eat more hot food such as carp soup, pork chop soup, should also eat vegetables, fruits, to achieve balanced nutrition, appropriate consumption of blood replenishing food such as jujubes, Agaricus. If you feel unwell, it is recommended that you go to the hospital in time and be treated under the guidance of your doctor.