To reduce weight there are thousands of methods known nowadays, but among all of them the weight reducing teas it is considered like one of the cheapest and it was thought that its consumption didn’t produce collateral effects in health. But now it is known that this magical drink that can help you recover your figure can affect your liver and produce hepatitis.

The toxicology specialist Anthony Wong, chief of the Centro de Ayuda Toxicolica del Hospital Clinicas de San Pablo (Brazil), confirms “we have news that different types of tea produce hepatic problems and one of the most serious collateral effects that the herbs cause when the tea is prepared is hepatitis.

This happens because the varieties of teas that have sacred rind or sene, which are drank by many people who want to loose those extra kilos because they have a laxative effect, can produce a hepatitis brought on by medication. Instead that the illness is triggered by a virus like in the case of hepatitis A, B and C it is caused by a chemical substance.

The sacred rind and the sene have compounds that act in the nucleus of the liver cells, it is like if it was killing the cell’s heart. And produces symptoms of hepatic intoxication identical to the ones caused by the viral hepatitis: yellow wyes, dark urine and whitish feces.

Likewise, some plants like the confre ( a plant with digestive properties can cause liver cancer), valerian ( a type of tranquilizer and ephedra ( that inhibits the appetite it has alkaloids. “Those products are difficult to metabolize. Depending on the concentration in which they were ingested, the time they were used and the sensitivity of the consumer, they tend to be retained in the liver and induce to a degeneration of the hepatic cells explains the homeopath Luis Antonio Costa, director of the Homeopathic Medical Association of Paran? Brazil.

To avoid these collateral problems, you have to be aware of the ingestion period of the tea. Because the consumption period should not overcome 90 days, because there are persons who get used to take it during all their life. It is also necessary to be aware of the continuous irritation that the laxatives cause in the intestine because it can end in cancer.

　　From HealthWorld Online