Can I eat osmanthus during breastfeeding?

During breastfeeding, there are many things you need to pay attention to in your diet. Things that you can eat at other times may not be allowed during breastfeeding. Osmanthus fragrans not only has ornamental value, but also tastes very fragrant and can be used for drinking tea or making soaked water. But after entering the breastfeeding period, some parents worry that eating Guihua will have a bad effect on the body. So, can you eat osmanthus during breastfeeding? Let’s take a look below.

Osmanthus tea has the effect of warming and replenishing yang energy. Indications: Hypertension due to Yang Qi deficiency. Symptoms include dizziness, headache, back pain, chills and cold limbs, loose stools, clear and long urination, pale tongue, white tongue coating, and deep and fine pulse.

The answer is yes. But it is recommended to drink less.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that osmanthus has great medicinal value. The ancients said that osmanthus is the best of all medicines, so the wine brewed with osmanthus can achieve the effect of "drinking it will make you live a thousand years." Osmanthus is warm in nature and spicy in taste. It enters the lung and large intestine meridians. It can be taken orally as a decoction, tea or wine. It has the effects of warming the middle and dispersing cold, warming the stomach and relieving pain, and resolving phlegm and dispersing blood stasis. It has certain effects on loss of appetite, phlegm and cough, hemorrhoids, dysentery, amenorrhea and abdominal pain. Black tea is warm in nature and can warm the spleen and stomach, aid digestion, and promote appetite; brown sugar has the effects of invigorating qi and nourishing blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, dispelling wind and cold, and promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It is especially suitable for postpartum women, children and people with anemia. Therefore, people with weak spleen and stomach function can drink osmanthus tea to warm the stomach. However, it is not suitable for people with damp-heat in the spleen and stomach who have symptoms such as burning pain in the stomach, dry mouth, hunger but no desire to eat, yellow urine, and sticky stool.

In addition to drinking osmanthus tea, you can also mix osmanthus, pure lotus root powder and white sugar into osmanthus lotus root powder, which is delicious and appetizing; or take high-quality jujubes, add sugar and cook, and when the soup is almost finished, add osmanthus to make osmanthus candied jujubes that are good for the spleen and appetite.

Winter is here. When the cold wind blows, many people often feel stomach discomfort or even cold pain. At this time, drinking some osmanthus tea can effectively relieve the symptoms.