Lotus seed, eaten with the heart removed, fresh can be eaten raw, cooked can be used as soup, can also be used as vegetables, sweets, pastries, preserves and medicinal cuisine, is a traditional medicinal food, has the spleen and kidney, nourishing the heart and tranquility of the efficacy of the mind, but also convergence of restlessness of the heart fire, so that people are quiet and easy to fall asleep. Lotus seed has a high medicinal value, for the nourishment of the precious energy. As early as in the Han Dynasty, "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" will be up, that lotus seed taste sweet, astringent, sex flat, with calm and tranquilize the spirit, tonifying the middle and benefit the qi, nourish the heart and kidneys, strengthen the spleen and stomach, clear the bowels of the body to moisten the dirty, ear and eyes, astringent intestines and stop the effect of diarrhea, can be used for the disease or post-partum weakness of the spleen and stomach, loose stools, palpitations and heart palpitations, irritability, insomnia, dreaming, lack of breath, weakness, loss of appetite, as well as women's blood deficiency lumbar soreness, leucorrhea increase, menopausal syndrome, and heart disease, hypertension, hypogonadism and so on.
Steps/methods
Lotus meat cake: lotus meat, glutinous rice (or rice) 200g each, fried; Poria 100g (peeled). *** research for fine powder, sugar, together with the block, add water to make it into mud, steamed, to be cold, flattened and cut into pieces that is. Derived from "Shi material three books". Poria is a medicine for tonifying the spleen and inducing dampness. When steamed with lotus seed meat and glutinous rice, it is especially effective in tonifying the spleen and benefiting the stomach. It is used for weak spleen and stomach, dietary inactivity, and loose stools.
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Spleen and stomach散：Lotus meat, Gorgon fruit, lentils, Semen Coicis, Chinese yam, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria 120 grams, 15 grams of ginseng (or 60 grams of ginseng). *** fried powder. Adequate amount of sugar can be added at the time of application. Use 15~30 grams each time and take it with warm boiled water.
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Lotus seed lily maitong soup: 15 grams of lotus seed (with heart), 30 grams of lily, 12 grams of maitong. Add water for decoction. This formula uses lotus seed with heart to clear the heart and tranquilize the mind, lily and mai men dong also have the effect of clearing the heart and tranquilize the mind. Used for after illness residual heat is not exhausted, the heart yin deficiency, upset dry mouth, palpitations and insomnia, etc. 4. lotus seed congee: 20 grams of lotus seed swelling, in the water with a brush to wipe off the surface, remove the lotus heart rinsing clean into the pot, add water in the fire to cook and cook, standby. Japonica 100 grams of rice with cooking, scrubbing, put into the pot with water to cook into a thin porridge, porridge cooked mixed into the lotus seed, cooked with rock sugar or sugar and then slightly stewed can be eaten.
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Lotus seed with rock sugar: soak the lotus seed to absorb water, add rock sugar on the cage steam, and then stewed thick to eat.
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Lotus Seed and Red Date Soup: Lotus root two large cut peeled and cut into pieces washed and drained; red dates 4 two, lotus seed 2 two soaked in water until soft and then fished out; will be the lotus root block and red dates, lotus seed and rock sugar with the right amount of water to cook for 1 and a half hours, to the ingredients are soft and transparent. Can replenish blood and moisturize the skin, is a long-term fatigue overload, consume the spirit of the medicinal food.
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Jujube silver ear lotus soup: 100 grams of jujube, 50 grams of white fungus, 100 grams of lotus seeds, brown sugar in moderation. Wash the red dates, white fungus, lotus seeds and soak in water. Add the right amount of water to the pot, put in 3 kinds of materials, cook, add sugar to taste.
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Gingul Lotus Seed Soup: 100 grams of lotus seed, 15 grams of dried gingul, 120 grams of fresh lily, 2 bananas, 5 grams of wolfberry. Rock sugar 100 grams. Dry fungus soak for 2 hours, pick the old tip and impurities after tearing into small pieces, add 4 cups of water into the steam bell to steam for half an hour out of the spare. Fresh lily plucked and washed to remove the old tip, banana washed and peeled, cut into 0.3 cm slices. Put all the ingredients into the stew pot, add seasoning into the steamer and steam for half an hour.
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Honey Red Lotus: is the lotus seeds and red dates first stewed with the fire for 1 hour, and then add sugar, lard, simmering until the juice is dry to eat. With silver fungus can be adjusted to make lotus silver fungus soup; with ginseng and the right amount of rock sugar steamed and stewed across the water, for the lotus meat ginseng soup; with cinnamon and then add red dates, glutinous rice **** cooking, can be boiled into lotus cinnamon soup.
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Papaya, lotus seed lily soup: raw materials for papaya, lotus seed, lily, red dates, silver ear, milk, rock sugar. Wash the raw materials and cut small pieces, lotus seeds soaked and steamed, silver fungus soaked and torn small pieces. Put the ingredients into boiling water and cook for half an hour, add milk and papaya and finally add the lily can be, into the soup plate with mint leaves garnish.
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Note
Lotus seed is certainly a very good grains and roots staple, but because of the high potassium, for the control of potassium intake of chronic kidney disease or dialysis patients, to control the intake. The diabetic patients must be combined with the staple food calculation, control the amount of starch intake a day, so as not to affect the blood sugar.