Introduction of lotus seeds The medicinal value of lotus seeds The side effects of lotus seeds are recorded in the medical books of lotus seeds.
Lotus seed, the name of traditional Chinese medicine, is the dried and mature seed of Nelumbo nucifera. It is slightly oval or spherical, with a length of1.2 ~1.8cm and a diameter of 0.8 ~1.4cm.. The surface is yellowish brown to reddish brown, with thin longitudinal stripes and wide veins. The center of one end is * * * shaped, dark brown, with many cracks, and its periphery is slightly sunken. Hard, thin seed coat, not easy to peel off. Cotyledon 2, yellow-white, plump, with a gap in the middle, with green plumule. Slight gas, sweet and slightly astringent; Lotus seed heart tastes bitter.
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Lotus seed and its function
Flat in nature, sweet and astringent in taste, entering the heart, spleen and kidney meridians; Tonify spleen, stop diarrhea, tonify kidney, astringent and clear, nourish heart and soothe nerves. For chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and nocturnal emission, palpitation and insomnia. Indications are nocturnal sleepiness, insomnia, forgetfulness, vexation and thirst, lumbago, weakness of feet, hearing loss, nocturnal emission, stranguria, chronic dysentery, asthenic diarrhea, metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia of women, and stomach deficiency that makes them unwilling to eat.
1, cancer prevention
Lotus seeds are good at tonifying the deficiency of five internal organs, promoting qi and blood circulation, and making qi and blood smooth without decay. Huangxinsunine oxide contained in lotus seeds has an inhibitory effect on nasopharyngeal carcinoma, all of which constitute the nutritional function of lotus seeds in preventing cancer and cancer.
2, lowering blood pressure
The amorphous alkaloid N-9 contained in lotus seeds has the effect of lowering blood pressure.
3, strong heart and soothe the nerves
The green core in the center of lotus seed, called lotus seed core, contains many alkaloids such as liensinine and isoliensinine. It tastes extremely bitter, has the function of clearing away heat and purging fire, and has obvious cardiotonic effect, which can dilate peripheral blood vessels and lower blood pressure. It can treat sores on the mouth and tongue and help sleep. Used as a tonic, invigorating spleen and stopping diarrhea, nourishing kidney and astringent essence, nourishing heart and calming nerves. It can be used for treating chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, chronic diarrhea, nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, diarrhea, incontinence, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia, anxiety, fright, and insomnia.
4. Nourish and tonify deficiency, stop remaining and astringent essence
For those who are weak for a long time, postpartum or the elderly, it is a common nutritional product; Lotus seed alkaloid has the function of calming down * * *, and for MUBI, people with frequent spermatorrhea or spermatorrhea, taking lotus seed has a good effect of stopping spermatorrhea and astringent semen.
Medicinal value of lotus seeds
Lotus seed
Dry mature seeds at the medicinal site.
The taste is sweet and astringent, and the nature is flat.
Meridian tropism belongs to spleen, kidney and heart meridian.
Tonify spleen, stop diarrhea, stop leukorrhagia, tonify kidney, astringent essence, nourish heart and soothe nerves.
Indications: diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, leukorrhagia, nocturnal emission and palpitation and insomnia.
Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoction, 2 ~ 4 yuan; Or into the pill, scattered.
Those who are full, bloated and have dry stools should not take it.
Medicinal auxiliary prescription of lotus seed
1, cure chronic dysentery: two ounces of old lotus seeds (heart-removing), for the end, every time you take one dollar, the old rice soup is adjusted. ("World Doctors Get Effective Prescriptions")
2, cure dysentery diet, the common name is mouth dysentery: fresh lotus meat one or two, coptis five money, ginseng five money. Deep-fry in water, carefully and sip. ("Herbal Classics")
3, cure mouth dysentery: Shi Lian does not eat much, do not fry, peel off the shell, combine the meat, and grind it into fine powder. Two cents, rice and drink. ("101 choices")
4. Treating symptoms such as inflammation due to heart fire, excessive damp-heat, astringent and red urine, stranguria and leukorrhagia, nocturnal emission, etc.: Scutellaria baicalensis, Ophiopogon japonicus (heart-removed), Cortex Lycii, Semen Plantaginis, Radix Glycyrrhizae (roasted) each half, Shi Lian meat (heart-removed), Poria, Radix Astragali (honey-roasted) and Ginseng each seven and a half dollars. File and disperse. Every San Qian, ten Ophiopogon japonicus tablets, one and a half lamps of water, decoct for eight points, and take it before eating. ("Ju Fang" Qingxin Lianzi Drink)
5, treat heart meridian deficiency heat, urine is turbid: Shi Lian meat (Lianxin) 62, roasted licorice 12. Fine powder. It costs two yuan each time, and the soup is lowered. ("Ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang" Lotus Seed Liuyi Decoction)
6, treatment of white turbid urine, wet dream ejaculation: lotus meat, Alpinia oxyphylla, keel (five colors) each equally. The top is fine at the end. It costs two yuan each time, and the hollow is adjusted with black rice drink. ("Miraculous Recipe" Lotus Meat Powder)
7, make up the deficiency and loss: the lotus fruit (peeled) is not much, soaked in good wine for one night, into the big pig belly, cooked with water, taken out and baked. The top is very fine, and the wine paste is a pill, such as the head of a chicken. Take fifty or seventy pills each time, and send warm wine before eating. ("Medical Invention" Shuizhi Pill)
8, after the treatment of weak stomach, needless to Shui Gu: lotus meat, japonica rice, stir-fried four Liang each, Poria two Liang. * * * is the end, and the sugar is blended. Every two servings, white soup is served. (Lotus Meat Cake from Three Books of Scholar)
9, treatment of upset stomach: Shi Lian meat, for the end, into some cardamom powder, rice soup by hot air. ("Ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang" Lotus Seed Powder)
10, cure postpartum stomach cold, cough, vomiting, or abdominal distension: two halves of Shi Lian meat, one or two poria cocos, and five yuan of cloves. The top is the bottom. Two yuan each time, regardless of time, with ginger soup or rice drink, three times a day. ("Women's Recipe" Shi Lian San)
Lotus seed
From the point of view, taking lotus seeds is a good adjuvant treatment for mild insomnia. However, patients with long or serious insomnia are suggested to be treated with Chinese medicine Zhumianbao developed by China Medical University, which can achieve remarkable curative effect. In addition, patients with insomnia should cultivate better living habits, such as taking more walks after dinner, usually more, and should also adjust their work habits to cultivate their interest in work and put themselves into work with a positive attitude. These are very helpful for the recovery of symptoms.
1, lotus seed porridge
Use 50 grams of lotus seeds, japonica rice or glutinous rice 100 grams. Wash the lotus seeds and rice and cook them in the pot until the lotus seeds are rotten.
2, rock sugar lotus seeds
50 grams of lotus seeds are washed, soaked and absorbed, added with rock sugar, steamed in a cage, and then returned to the pot for stewing and then eaten.
3, jujube lotus seed porridge
30g of lotus seeds, 0/0 pieces of red dates/kloc-0, 60g of japonica rice or glutinous rice, * * * put it into the pot to cook porridge, add appropriate amount of sugar when eating, and make it refreshing and iron-supplemented.
4, egg yolk lotus seed soup
Wash lotus seeds and add water to boil. After the fire is turned on, turn to low heat and cook for about 20 minutes. Add a little rock sugar. Shell the egg and put it in a bowl, dig out the yolk, add the lotus seed soup and boil it. Nourish the heart, relieve annoyance, soothe the nerves and strengthen the fetus.
5. Lotus seed eight-treasure rice
250g of glutinous rice, 0/00g of lotus seed/kloc-,25g of white sugar, 5g of red dates, and appropriate amounts of sweet-scented osmanthus, orange cake, winter melon candy and red silk. First, clean the glutinous rice, add boiling water to the pot until the rice blooms, then rinse it with clear water, put it in a basin, add the other seven raw materials, and steam it in a cage.
Side effects of lotus seeds
No matter how good any food is, you can't eat too much. People with constipation or poor digestive function should eat less lotus seeds.
Lotus seed medical book records
1, "Materia Medica": When you are born, you will swell your abdomen, and Zhongyi will make you vomit, so you should eat it.
2, "Compendium": get poria cocos, yam, atractylodes macrocephala and medlar.
3, "Materia Medica": Do not take dry stools.
4, "Drinking with Interest": malaria, jaundice, malnutrition, hemorrhoids, qi stagnation, constipation, indigestion, and new postpartum are all taboo.
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