While never drive or take part in any risky behavior during or after drinking is a no brainer, do you know that sipping tea, especially strong tea, after consuming alcohol is a bad idea, too?
Yes! According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Practitioners, the ethanol contained in alcoholic beverage, whether it is wine, beer, or distilled spirits acts as a stimulant to blood vessels in the heart (reduce blood vessel constriction and platelet aggregation). Strong tea, in the same way, makes the human body exceptionally excitable and can affect the cardiovascular as well as the nervous system. Therefore, for a person (especially someone with cardiovascular disease) who has tea after downing alcohol, his/her heart will have too much pressures to handle due to the increase in heart rate.
What’s more, to have alcohol followed by tea brings damages to kidneys, too. It is because if we drink tea before the conversion of ethanol into acetaldehyde, which is then further converted into harmless acetic acid in the liver completed, the acetaldehyde will enter the kidneys anyway resulting from the diuretic effect (promote the formation of urine) produced by the theophylline contained in tea. Unfortunately, kidney damage is associated with chronic exposure to acetaldehyde!
That’s why tea definitely is not an answer to a hangover prevention or cure neither, warned by TCM Practitioners.
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