Butterfly pea flower tea is popular among women recently because of its beautiful color and health benefits. So, what are the benefits of butterfly pea flower tea, when is the best to drink butterfly pea flower so as not to experience side effects?
Butterfly pea flower is scientifically known as Clitoria Ternatea, and appears a lot in Asia. This is a climbing plant with the purple-blue color.
Dried butterfly pea flowers are dipped into boiling water to make butterfly pea flower tea with beautiful colors and many good uses for health and beauty. In addition, after drying, butterfly pea flowers are also ground into powder, used in food and beverage processing.
1. Health benefits of drinking butterfly pea flower tea
With the main ingredients anthocyanin and cliotide, butterfly pea flower tea has these effects:
- Improves brain health: Butterfly pea flower contains proanthocyanidin, which is very good for the central nervous system because it helps blood easily circulation to the brain. In addition, acetylcholine helps enhance memory and improve brain-related diseases.
- Reduce fever, relieve pain: The seeds and roots of the butterfly pea flower have a strong bitter taste. When you have a fever or cold, using butterfly pea flower tea stimulates the body to sweat, helps reduce fever and relieves colds quickly but still safe and effective.
- Prevent aging, a help for beautiful skin: Flavonoid in butterfly pea flower has the property of preventing aging in women because it can eliminate free radical cells, inhibit the destruction of proteins on the skin. Besides, anthocyanin helps to increase collagen and elastin production for healthy, beautiful skin. The quercetin in the butterfly pea flower also helps keep skin moisturized.
- Protect eyesight: very good for eyes, improves eyesight and protects eye-related problems such as cataracts because proanthocyanidin in butterfly pea flower tea stimulates blood circulation to the eyes.
- Reduce stress, depression: The anthocyanin in butterfly pea flowers also can also enhance immunity, reducing stress, helping to calm down and prevent depression.
- Support the treatment of diabetes: Flavonoids in butterfly pea flowers can stimulate insulin production, so drinking butterfly pea flower tea every day helps control blood sugar levels and reduces the risk of complications caused by diabetes.
- Improve heart health: A published study said that butterfly pea flower extract can help remove bad cholesterol in the blood, preventing cardiovascular diseases such as blood pressure, hardening of blood vessels, and thrombosis.
- Weight loss: Butterfly pea flower tea is a great drink for women to lose weight thanks to anthocyanin that inhibits lipid metabolism, preventing fat accumulation which causes obesity. In addition, the compound EGCG found in butterfly pea flowers also helps burn calories faster, thereby helping the weight loss process.
- Anti-inflammatory, anti-swelling, detoxifying, clearing heat: Thanks to its high antioxidant content (equivalent to green tea), butterfly pea flower tea has anti-inflammatory effects to protect the body against chronic diseases. Besides, butterfly pea flower also helps to eliminate toxins in the liver and in the body.
- Prevent cancer and support the cancer treatment: Butterfly pea flower contains many antioxidants, so it can eliminate free radicals and prevent cancer. In addition, the active ingredients in butterfly pea flowers also support the treatment of cancer thanks to its ability to inhibit and prevent the growth of tumor cells.
2. When is the best time to drink butterfly pea flower and what is the right amount?
For women who want to lose weight, drinking butterfly pea flower tea after meals and before going to bed is the best because it helps to remove excess fat effectively, and also helps sedation for a better sleep.
However, people should note that only 300-500ml (about 1-2 cups) of butterfly pea flower tea is recommended per day (about 5-10 fresh butterfly pea flowers, equivalent to 1-2 grams of dried flowers) to avoid side effects.
3. Precautions butterfly pea flower tea
Similar to many other herbal teas, if you drink too much the butterfly pea flower drink because there might be unwanted side effects. Here are some precautions when using butterfly pea flower tea:
- Pregnant women should not drink butterfly pea flower tea because the active ingredients stimulate the uterus to contract stronger, affecting the baby inside.
- The seeds of the butterfly pea flowers can cause nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, especially in children.
- People with low blood pressure should not drink butterfly pea flower tea because it can lower blood pressure dramatically with symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, and lightheadedness.
- Women in their menstrual cycle or about to have surgery should not drink butterfly pea flower tea because it will aggressively increase blood circulation.
- People using anticoagulant drugs should not drink butterfly pea flower because it limits platelet aggregation.
Butterfly pea flower tea has many effects on health and beauty such as improving heart health, eyes, brain, supporting the treatment of diabetes, cancer, weight loss, beautifying the skin, preventing aging. ... Therefore, when you know the outstanding uses of butterfly pea flower, you can consider using it for health benefits.
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