Everyone is definitely familiar with longan. It not only tastes delicious, but also has excellent medicinal value. Eating longan can nourish qi and blood, stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen, as well as delay aging, lower cholesterol and protect the heart. Many pregnant women also want to eat longan. So, can pregnant people eat longan?
Whether pregnant women can eat longan depends on their physical condition. If the pregnant woman has a cold constitution, she can eat some longan. Longan is warm in nature, and its meat is sweet and helps with internal heat. After consumption, it can easily lead to internal heat. So, when pregnant women have stomach heat, phlegm and fire, they should not eat longan to avoid causing adverse symptoms.
Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that women often have excess yang and insufficient yin during pregnancy. This is because after conception, Yin blood accumulates to nourish the fetus, which can cause the pregnant woman to have Yin blood deficiency, leading to the growth of internal heat caused by Yin deficiency, manifested as dry stools, palpitations, dryness, and redness of the tongue. After consuming longan, adverse symptoms will worsen, which is not conducive to pregnancy health.
It is best for women to take cool and nourishing medicines during pregnancy, and longan is not suitable for most pregnant women to eat. Eating longan during pregnancy when the constitution is not too cold can increase fetal heat and easily lead to qi imbalance, which may cause symptoms such as stomach gas reflux, vomiting, and even abdominal pain and redness.
