If taken in stronger doses you may feel some slight nausea. Simply reduce the strength or intake of the tea.Nausea and/or slight diarrhea can be a sign that the tea is working and is purging your body of unwanted wastes. These symtoms are only temporary and should disappear in a day or two.
Both the experienced botanist Dr. Theodoro Meyer and the physician Professor Walter Accorsi, who have intensively studied the applications of Pau d'Arco, agree that Pau d'Arco can be enjoyed quite safely by men, women, and children of all ages, and even by pregnant women.
The most significant side effect is that you will immediately
start feeling better.
LAPACHOL
The most discussed and researched quinone found in the bark.Lapachol has been exhaustively studied because it is considered to be the most significant active ingredient in the bark. Lapachol in an isolated form (meaning removed from the biological context of the original plant...) should not be compared to the unique combination of effective ingredients of the bark that makes the broad therapeutic applications possible... and the healing power of the lapacho tree can't be traced back to one individual component.
Lapachol studies has raised the issue of blood coagulation properties that were detected when massive doses were adminstered to mice. This is not of any concern when using the bark prepared as a tea. Studies conducted at the John A. Burns School of Medicine of the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1984-5 concluded that Pau d'Arco is completely harmless and non-toxic.
Although lapachol resembles vitamin "K", lapachol does not have any effect on coagulation.
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