The uses of lotus are as follows:

1, lotus is a beauty herb, in the "Rihuazi Materia Medica" recorded in the "Zhenxin, benefit color and face" effect.

2, lotus can also treat some gynecological diseases, such as "Diannan Materia Medica" recorded that it can "treat women's blood coma."

3, for men, lotus is also a better Chinese medicine, such as the "daily use of this herb" recorded that it can "astringent essence."

4, lotus leaves can treat some obstetric diseases, there is a detoxification effect, for example, "Materia Medica Gleanings" recorded lotus leaves "main blood distension and abdominal pain, postpartum uterine not, boiled in wine to serve; and the main eating wild fungus poison, boiled in water to serve."

5, lotus leaves are also commonly used in the treatment of some blood disorders, such as "daily use of the herb" recorded that it can "treat vomiting blood, vomiting blood."

6, treatment of vomiting blood, hemoptysis. Epistaxis, hematemesis, hematemesis, drowning blood, hemorrhagic drenching, collapse, postpartum malignant blood, injury and septicemia." The Compendium of Materia Medica states that it can "generate vital energy, help the spleen and stomach, astringe the essence and turbidity, dissipate blood stasis, confuse oedema, carbuncles and sores, and send out pimples and sores.

Expanded Information:

Propagation of Lotus

1. Seedling

The first step is to break the shells. in May-June the concave end of the seed is ground on a concrete floor or a rough stones to grind the seed, soak the seedling. To keep the water clear, often change the water, about a week or so out of the bud, two weeks after the roots transplanted, one plant per pot, the water layer should be shallow, not to submerge the lotus leaves in the water. 90% or so of the current year can be bloomed, but not much bloom that year.

2, divided root planting

Mid-March to mid-April is the best time to turn pots of lotus root planting. Early planting will have the effect of cold spells, the seed root is susceptible to frost damage. In the northern region when the cold front can be covered with transparent agricultural film. Before planting, the pot of mud to be made into a paste, planting when the top of the seed root along the edge of the pot was 20 degrees diagonally into the mud, the bowl of lotus depth of about 5 centimeters.

After planting, the pot will be placed in the sunlight, so that the surface of the soil cracks, in order to facilitate the complete adhesion of the seed root and soil, and then add a small amount of water, to be buds grow, gradually deepen the water level, and finally maintain a 3-5 centimeters of water layer.

3, space breeding

July 1994, by the Guangchang County White Lotus Scientific Research Institute and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Genetics cooperation, 442 white lotus seed Guangchang ride on the 940703 return satellite, stay in space for 355 hours and 35 minutes, around the Earth 238 laps after the success of the return to Earth.

Screened and cultivated, the formation of space lotus 1, 2, 3, 36 and other varieties. 2002, 2006, Guangchang white lotus and successively aboard the "Shenzhou IV" spacecraft, carrying the practice of No. 8 breeding satellite and then into space.

People's Daily Online - Lotus leaves in the sky reflect the lotus flowers in the sun

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