Yogi Tea Company manufactures a variety of traditional and herbal tea blends inspired by holistic living. Based out of Southern California, the company provides more than 60 varieties of tea. Certain tea blends have a diuretic effect on the body, possibly resulting in diarrhea, while others inhibit symptoms of diarrhea. Consult with your health care adviser for information regarding diarrhea prevention or treatment options.
Common Ingredients
Yogi Bhajan, founder of Yogi Tea Company, is an advocate of Ayurveda, an alternative system of medicine indigenous to India. Many of the Yogi Tea varieties contain the five Ayurvedic spices: cardamom seed, cinnamon bark, clove bud, ginger root and black pepper. The Ayurvedic ingredients, when blended with additional herbs and spices, create distinct flavors with many healthful properties. Naturopathy Digest explains that cardamom may relieve symptoms of diarrhea in adults and children while KG Stiles, a holistic health educator, states that cinnamon bark may also help alleviate diarrhea.
Detoxification
Yogi Tea Company produces a line of detoxification tea blends designed to cleanse organs from impurities. The detoxification tea blends include herbs such as dandelion root, burdock, juniper berry, ginger and Indian sarsaparilla, all of which have diuretic properties. Although health care experts consider herbal diuretic products generally safe, ingestion of herbal diuretic products in the absence of food may lead to diarrhea, which occurs when fluids or foods pass too quickly through the colon. Supplementing consumption of detoxification teas with nutritious meals will slow the rate at which fluid passes through the colon.
Herbal Treatment
Several herbs may treat symptoms of diarrhea, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center: astragalus, barberry, billberry, ginger, peppermint and slippery elm. Yogi Tea Company incorporates many of these herbs into its tea blends. Ginseng Vitality and Echinacea Immune Support contains astragalus; bilberry leaves are found in the Green Tea Blueberry Slim Life and Peach DeTox tea blends; ginger root is in Classic India Spice, Egyptian Licorice and Woman's Energy; while Cold Season Egyptian Licorice Mint and Refreshing Mint ReVitalize provide a dose of peppermint leaves.
Herbal Stimulant
Senna, which is available in the Get Regular tea blend, is another herb that may induce diarrhea. The herbal supplement is used to treat symptoms of constipation or bowel movement irregularity. It is an especially potent cathartic herb that may result in diarrhea if its usage is not regulated, according to the American Cancer Society. Although certain herbal remedies may cause diarrhea, Mayo Clinic states that the most common causes of diarrhea include viral and bacterial invasions, lactose intolerance or digestive disorders. Consult with your health care provider regarding proper diagnosis and treatment options if you suffer from diarrhea.
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