Blood purification tea

Blood purification tea , also known as detox tea , became medicinal and is still used today in folk and alternative medicine on the assumption that it could purify the blood of hypothetical pollutants .

Mainly diuretic and laxative tea drugs are used to make blood cleansing teas. However, depending on the manufacturer, completely different plants are used. Commonly used include blackthorn , hornbill , nightshade , pansy , grouse , nettle , field horsetail , and birch .

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Würzburg-born pharmacist Carl Reichel (1843-1916), who was born in Veitshöchheim from 1895, sold a blood cleansing tea based on a recipe from his in Würzburg from 1833 to 1875 and then in Veitshöchheim as a merchant (among other things as a "colonial goods dealer and vinegar manufacturer." “As well as manufacturer of pharmaceutical preparations) is the work of father Martin Reichel (1800–1887). Orders for “Martin Reichel's blood purification tea” were placed between 1901 and 1914 not only from Bavaria and Central Germany, but also from several cities in Austria-Hungary , for example . “Martin Reichel's blood purification tea” was later sold from Würzburg by Carl Reichel's son-in-law Hermann Lockner (1850–1928) and his grandson Hermann Lockner (1894–1980) until 1944 (order address: Ludwigstrasse 7). A in an old edition of the Swiss Pharmacopoeia (Pharmacopoeia Helvetica V, 1933) monografierte Blutreinigungstee ( Species depurativae contains) sassafras , walnut leaves , blackthorn , senna , pansy , guaiac wood , fennel seed , licorice root and Sarsaparillenwurzel .

The term "blood purification tea" is not used in the scientific medical literature. It is impossible to purify the blood from slags with the help of tea . The human body naturally clears toxins through the liver and kidney . The use of blood purification teas should, however, stimulate these detoxification and excretion functions. There is no slag (a term from metal processing) in the human body . The concept of metabolites as products of metabolism would be more appropriate here. Because most blood purification teas have a diuretic or laxative effect, there is a risk of getting used to it if you use them for a long time.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hands off blood cleansing tea and detox products. In: Medizin.at. September 3, 2002, accessed June 24, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Udo di Fabio: Risk decisions in the rule of law: on the change in dogmatics in public law, especially using the example of drug monitoring . Mohr Siebeck 1994, ISBN 9783161461019 , p. 201, footnote 73 ( excerpt (Google) ).
3. ↑ Karl Stauffer: Clinical homeopathic medicine theory . Georg Thieme Verlag 2002, ISBN 9783877582411 , p. 146 ( excerpt (Google) ).
4. ^ Rudolf Hänsel, Konstantin Keller, Hermann Hager, Horst Rimpler: Hager's manual of pharmaceutical practice . Springer 1994, ISBN 9783540526391 , p. 740 ( excerpt (Google) ).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Andreas Hummel: Drugs theory . Vincentz Network GmbH & Co KG 2004, ISBN 9783878704829 , pp. 29, 54 ( excerpt (Google) ).
6. ↑ ^{a b} Articles on the sand birch (pdf; 1.4 MB) ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - LWF report 28, Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry 2000, p. 99ff.  
7. ^ Journal for the Study of Food . Volume 53, Number 4, April 1927, p. 726.
8. ↑ Walter M. Brod: Martin Reichel's pharmaceutical preparations from Würzburg and Veitshöchheim. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 14, 1996, pp. 161-172.
9. ↑ Ernst Schneider: Use the medicinal plants. Published on behalf of the German Association for Health Care eV, Hamburg, Saatkorn-Verlag, 1963, p. 247 ( excerpt (Google) ).

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