Can patients with gastritis drink clove tea?
May 15, 2023
Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Zhou Chao
Introduction
Patients with gastritis can generally drink clove tea, but if the condition is severe, they should avoid it. Gastritis is mainly caused by factors such as gastric injury and drug irritation. If a patient's gastritis is mild, the affected areas in the stomach can often heal on their own. Clove tea, derived from a substance that is both food and medicine, contains components such as clove oil, which can help regulate the gastrointestinal tract and also has effects of dispelling cold and relieving pain.
Patients with gastritis can generally drink clove tea, but if the condition is severe, they should avoid it. The detailed analysis is as follows:
1. Permissible
Gastritis is mainly caused by factors such as gastric trauma or drug irritation, leading to damage of the gastric mucosa and impaired defensive function, which increases gastric acid secretion and aggravates erosion of the injured areas, thus causing gastritis. If a patient has mild gastritis, the affected areas can often heal on their own. Clove tea, being a substance derived from both food and medicine, contains components such as clove oil that can help regulate gastrointestinal function and provide effects of dispelling cold and relieving pain.
2. Not permissible
If the patient is in the acute phase of the illness, fasting is required to reduce the burden on the stomach and prevent gastric acid secretion, thereby avoiding further irritation to the damaged areas; hence, drinking clove tea is not allowed. It is recommended to seek hospital care for parenteral nutritional support. In cases of difficulty breathing, tracheotomy may be necessary to assist respiration.
It is advised that in daily life, patients maintain regular meal schedules, gradually resume normal diet after recovery, and avoid stopping medication arbitrarily to prevent recurrence of the condition.
