In China, constipation can be treated with a tea whose ingredients include cannabis seeds
Although there is a strict national prohibition on drugs, the cultivation of cannabis for industrial purposes is allowed.
In small shops where you can buy different types of tea and accessories to prepare it, you can find an anti-collision mixture that is offered for sale by the HK Kakoo International Group, which also includes green tea, nutmeg and bitter apricot seeds.
The mixture is offered as a natural treatment for “all kinds of constipation, expelling heat from the body and eliminating pathogens, dissipating and eliminating food stagnation, adjusting the internal environment and protecting the gastric mucosa “, according to the text read in the tea pack with 16 envelopes.
According to Shi Hongliu, a researcher at the Xiangxue pharmaceutical company (XPH), for Chinese law, cannabis qualifies as a drug and its use in traditional Chinese medicine is strictly prohibited.
However, the specialist explained that tea does not belong to the category of traditional medicine.
First, tea does not belong to the category of traditional Chinese medicine. Second, the side effects of medications are related to their doses. The same goes for tea, “he said.