Tea with lemon balm during pregnancy - benefits and harms

During pregnancy, a woman more often brews medicinal herbs, since chemicals can harm the baby.

Pharmacies offer many herbal supplements that help overcome insomnia, reduce signs of toxicosis, get rid of edema, and even eliminate mood swings. In this regard, medicinal lemon balm can give odds to other herbs - it is not only very useful for mom and baby, but also really tasty.

Melissa teas have long been used to treat various diseases and make you feel better during pregnancy. However, before starting herbal medicine, you need to familiarize yourself with the possible limitations and contraindications.

Chemical composition

Fragrant "lemon mint" is a valuable source of useful components:

• B vitamins, ascorbic acid;
• essential oils;
• coumarins;
• healthy resins;
• bitterness;
• flavonoids;
• tanning components;
• organic acids (coffee, rosemary, chlorogenic, etc.);
• monotherapies;
• phenylpropanoids;
• phytosterols (plant analogues of female sex hormones);
• phenolcarboxylic acids (salicylic, vanillic, lilac and others);
• myrcene;
• linalool;
• saponins;
• ursolic acid;
• carotenoids.

Macro- and microelements (potassium, nickel, magnesium, chromium, calcium, zinc, vanadium, iron, molybdenum, manganese and many others).

The composition of tea with lemon balm is surprising, because we hear many names for the first time. But it is thanks to rare compounds that the grass gently affects the organisms of the mother and child, strengthens them.

Valuable ethers have a positive effect on overall well-being and psycho-emotional state. Tea with lemon balm calms, reduces anxiety and irritability, helps fight depression and apathy.

Phenylpropanoids are natural immunomodulators that strengthen the body's defenses. They also act as antioxidants, protecting cells from acid reactions and prolonging their youth. Phenylpropanoids affect the functioning of the liver and protect the organ from excessive stress as the uterus grows.

Tannins stop inflammatory processes and promote blood coagulation, preventing blood loss during childbirth.

Flavonoids produce an antimicrobial effect, protecting the mother and child from pathogenic microflora.

Coumarins prevent tumors (polyps, cysts, abscesses, fibroids and oncology).

Saponins cleanse the body thanks to a mild diuretic, laxative and choleretic effect. They also normalize digestion and sleep, have sedative properties.

What is useful tea from pregnant lemon balm

The healing plant demonstrates the following medicinal properties for the mother and child.

1. Affects hemostasis, ensuring normal blood coagulation.
2. Reduces pain, cramping, headaches and migraines.
3. Helps to weaken muscle tone, including uterine.
4. It calms the nervous system and psyche, relaxes, provides quick falling asleep and long deep sleep.
5. Helps the body fight viruses, infections, and bacteria more effectively. Prevents flu and other colds.
6. It positively affects the respiratory system, cleanses the nasopharynx and oropharynx from mucus in case of asthma, rhinitis, bronchitis.
7. Provides good digestion and intestinal motility, facilitates the absorption of beneficial components. It is believed that lemon balm tea reduces the symptoms of toxicosis: nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, weakness.He also enhances the appetite, which allows the expectant mother to fully eat in the first trimester.
8. Helps to get rid of chronic constipation in the 2nd and 3rd trimester due to its mild laxative effect.
9. Accelerates the production of hemoglobin, which carries oxygen to the cells.
10. It accelerates metabolism, providing the body of mother and baby with the necessary energy and energy.
11. It softens mood swings in the first trimester, eliminates fears, irritability and overexcitation due to copper in the composition.
12. It promotes the healing of mucous membranes with colds, as well as dental problems (for example, candidiasis, periodontal disease, stomatitis or glossitis). Tannins provide fast tissue regeneration.
13. It helps to reduce the itching of the epidermis in various dermatitis (including allergic nature).
14. Removes excess fluid from the body, which helps eliminate puffiness.
15. Gently reduces pressure, which helps the expectant mother to fight hypertension and prophylaxis of eclampsia.
16. Cleanses the body of poisons, metabolic products, radionuclides, "bad" cholesterol, salts, free radicals.
17. It is a natural lactogonous drug that stimulates the production of milk after childbirth.

Features of drinking tea with lemon balm

First of all, the expectant mother must correctly collect the medicinal herb. It is believed that the highest concentration of esters is achieved during its flowering period. The plant can be grown in your garden, as well as in the apartment (lemon balm grows well in a pot on the windowsill).

In winter, it is hard to get fresh lemon balm, so the expectant mother can use dry pharmacy collection or herb essential oil.

Before brewing, fresh leaves are thoroughly washed and dried, and dry leaves are crushed.

Tea can be brewed only from lemon balm or in combination with green or black tea leaves. For treatment during pregnancy, the plant is combined with mint, leaves of strawberries and currants, lemon, thyme.

To prepare medicinal tea, 2 tablespoons of the crushed plant must be filled with 300 ml of boiling water. Healing broth is brewed in a thermos for 10 minutes. The resulting drink is diluted with water 1 to 1.

If tea from lemon balm is used before bedtime, then it should be weak and with the addition of honey.

Are there any health risks

Each healing herb has side effects and contraindications.

1. Melissa contains extracts and esters, as well as vitamin C, which are strong allergens. However, a pregnant reaction may not occur, and a child may develop a food allergy and even atopic dermatitis in the future.
2. It must be borne in mind that the herb has a diuretic effect. That is why it is not used by people with kidney diseases (for example, pyelonephritis, glomerulonephritis) and the genitourinary system, as well as in the presence of stones.
3. The laxative effect makes the use of lemon balm unacceptable during an exacerbation of diarrhea.
4. Also, some doctors believe that lemon balm increases the production of female sex hormones, and this can disrupt the endocrine system and adversely affect gestation (for example, increase uterine tone).
5. The abuse of tea can lead to excessive sedation and decreased tone of the vascular walls. As a result, the expectant mother complains of headaches or migraines, dizziness, numbness of the limbs, and general malaise.

Contraindications to the medicinal drink from lemon balm are as follows:

• hypotension and vegetovascular disorders;
• exacerbation of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (gastritis, ulcer, colitis, high acidity);
• diseases of internal organs (liver, kidneys, pancreas, gall bladder, etc.);
• a history of medicinal herbs allergy.

Fragrant and tasty lemon balm helps the expectant mother to calm down and relax, comfortably expect the appearance of the long-awaited baby.One day a mug of a weak drink is enough to improve the nervous system, alleviate the symptoms of toxicosis and normalize sleep.

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