What is the medicinal value of lotus leaf powder?
Lotus leaf powder, as its name implies, is a powder made of lotus leaf, which contains many nutrients, including nuciferine, malic acid, gluconic acid, oxalic acid, citric acid, succinic acid and so on. We usually drink lotus leaf powder soaked in water. Lotus leaf powder has many medicinal effects. Let me introduce the medicinal value of lotus leaf powder to you.
1. Pharmacological studies show that lotus leaf powder has the functions of lowering blood pressure, reducing blood fat, reducing weight, relieving fever, inhibiting bacteria and relieving spasm. The processed lotus leaf powder tastes bitter, slightly salty, pungent and cool, and has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting diuresis and activating yang, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and has certain curative effects on various diseases.
2. Alkaloids in lotus leaf powder are important effective components in crude drugs. At present, more than 10000 species have been isolated, of which more than 80 species have been used in clinic. Alkaloids in some plants can be used for antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antiasthmatic, antihypertensive and anti-tumor.
3. Lotus leaf powder also contains vitamin C, which has the functions of antioxidation, anti-free radical and inhibition of tyrosinase production, thus achieving the effect of whitening and lightening spots.
Function of lotus leaf powder
How to use lotus leaf powder? What is the medicinal effect achieved by the above methods? We usually soak lotus leaf powder in water, so what diseases can lotus leaf powder soak in water treat? First of all, soaking lotus leaf powder in water can treat diarrhea. In summer and autumn, both adults and children are prone to diarrhea under the influence of changeable weather. At this time, boiled lotus leaf powder has a good effect of stopping diarrhea and tonifying the spleen and stomach.
Many people usually have edema, especially some patients and pregnant women. We will burn the withered lotus leaves and grind them into powder, and then take out a proper amount of millet soup three times a day, and the edema will soon be reduced. Because of the influence of some diseases, our body will have allergic dermatitis, which can be treated by taking medicine, but we can choose lotus leaf powder to treat this allergy, and the effect is better.
Lotus leaf powder for the elderly can help reduce blood fat, because it tastes bitter and has a good health care effect on the liver, spleen and stomach and heart after taking it. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the function of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and is very suitable for patients with hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Lotus leaf has a good diuretic effect, the most direct performance is that the number of times to go to the toilet after taking lotus leaf tea has increased significantly.