Tea (Ming)

Modern pharmacovigilance sources record hepatotoxicity associated with concentrated green tea extract, not with drinking tea. The U.S. NIH LiverTox database reports that drinking green tea has not been associated with liver injury, but that green tea extract — and, more rarely, ingestion of large amounts of green tea — has been implicated in cases of clinically apparent acute liver injury, including acute liver failure with need for transplantation or death; LiverTox assigns green tea extract a likelihood score of A (a well-established cause of clinically apparent liver injury). This is reference information drawn from modern sources, not a diagnostic or treatment recommendation.

• functions_en self-translated from 本草纲目 traditional_functions (public domain; the Chinese tf carries verbatim excerpt_hash citations). No modern work consulted.
• WHO IST-TCM terminology-aligned for the English rendering.
• public pharmacopoeia & botanical facts (public-domain reference facts; no proprietary modern source).

Classical source text (Chinese) — English summary above.

传统中医记载：主瘘疮、利小便、去痰热、止渴，令人少睡、有力悦志；清头目、消食下气、醒酒解腻。

Nature & flavor: 苦、甘，微寒，无毒。

• Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十二·味·茗·气味Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its classification.
• Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十二·味·茗·气味Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its nature & flavor.
• Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) · Li Shizhen · 卷三十二·味·茗·主治Cited from Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu) for its traditional functions.