The functions and effects of lotus leaf

Lotus leaves are the leaves of lotus. Every summer, some people would soak lotus leaves in water and drink it. Some friends who are good at cooking will use lotus leaves to make different delicious foods. So do we know the effects and functions of lotus leaves? Although we all know that lotus root leaves are a traditional Chinese medicinal material, we don’t actually know much about their effects. Let’s take a look at the main functions of lotus root leaves!

Clears away heat and dampness, promotes the flow of yang, and stops bleeding. It is used to treat diarrhea caused by summer heat and dampness, dizziness, edema due to water vapor, thunderhead wind, vomiting blood, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, bloody stool, and postpartum fainting.

1. Yu Shi: "Break the blood."

2. "Supplement to Materia Medica": "It is used to treat abdominal pain caused by blood distension and retention of placenta after childbirth. It can be boiled in wine and taken. It is also used to treat poisonous wild mushrooms. It can be boiled in water and taken."

3. "Rihuazi Bencao": "It quenches thirst, and treats dry mouth after childbirth, dry heart and lungs, and depression."

4. "Daily Materia Medica": "It can treat vomiting blood and spitting blood."

5. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "It can clear the heat in the head and eyes, stop dizziness, clear phlegm, relieve gas, stop vomiting, and relieve headache."

6. "Pin Hui Jing Yao": "Treats crab poisoning."

7. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can generate vital energy, help the spleen and stomach, astringe turbid semen, disperse blood stasis, cure edema, carbuncle, and acne. It can treat vomiting blood, hemoptysis, epistaxis, bleeding, hematuria, hematuria, metrorrhagia, postpartum blood, and blood loss caused by injury."

8. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It stimulates appetite and helps digestion, stops bleeding and consolidates semen."

9. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Washing the kidneys to treat cystic wind."

10. "Essentials of the Nature of Herbs" states: "Pounding the juice can treat leukorrhea, and calcining the juice to preserve its properties can treat lotus pod sores."

11. Tai Ping Zai Xin: "It cools and relieves summer heat, quenches thirst and produces body fluids, treats diarrhea and dysentery, and relieves heat and fire."

12. "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "It is used for chronic uterine inflammation in women, leucorrhea, spermatorrhea or nocturia in men; it is also a detoxifying drug."

In summer and autumn, due to the hot and humid climate, if you don't pay more attention to your diet, you will easily experience vomiting and diarrhea, and the stool will be yellow in color, but smell worse. If you want to restore your body to health at this time, you can drink lotus leaves soaked in water, which can play a good role in stopping diarrhea and supplementing the spleen and stomach. It can also clear away heat and dampness, and the diarrhea will naturally disappear. In addition to the method of directly brewing with boiling water, you can also stew and fry the lotus leaves until they become ash, then grind them into powder and take them with white sugar. Take it three times a day and you will soon recover.

Although lotus leaf tea has many benefits, it also has many taboos. Women are advised not to drink tea during menstruation, and the same applies to lotus leaf tea, which should be avoided. Lotus leaves cannot be taken at the same time as tung oil, poria, and silver. Pregnant women should not drink lotus leaf tea.