Chrysanthemum Safe to drink?

[Will_Shaw]

I want to start drinking chrysanthemum tea. But I just read how this daisy like plant has naturally occurring insecticed  called Pyrethrins. So I was wondering does this do anything to people that drink it? Is it destroyed with hot water? Or a way to destroy it? 

[vellocet]

Unless you're an insect, pyrethrins won't kill you.  

[abcdefg]

5 hours ago, Will_Shaw said:

I want to start drinking chrysanthemum tea.

 

@Will_Shaw -- The chrysanthemum tea I buy here in Kunming doesn't have insecticide residues (at least according to the seller.) I drink it a lot, several kinds. Good stuff!

 

Here's more about it and some other flower teas as well. I really enjoy chrysanthemum and rose together.

 

https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/52972-a-little-about-chinese-flower-tea-花茶/

 

Welcome to the forum. Are you now living in China?

[roddy]

It's not insecticide residues, it's a naturally-occurring chemical the plants themselves produce. It's not regarded as dangerous, unless, as vellocet says, you're an insect.

[abcdefg]

OK, I see. Then does the OP need to worry about it? Probably not.

 

After drinking it about ten years, one of my six legs got slightly bent so I crawl with a slight limp, and one of my antennae fell off, though that may have been co-incidental. Other than that, I've noticed no ill effects.

[Mati1]

57 minutes ago, abcdefg said:

one of my six legs got slightly bent so I crawl with a slight limp, and one of my antennae fell off,

Typical signs of old age

[abcdefg]

1 hour ago, Mati1 said:

Typical signs of old age

 

These "golden years" are tough for an old bug.

[abcdefg]

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[Teasenz]

We're talking here about very very very small doses. Thousands of times smaller than synthetically extracted Pyrethrins for fending of insects.