Effects and Functions of Lotus Root

Clearing heat and cooling blood

Lotus root is cold in raw form, and has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, which can be used to treat feverish diseases. Lotus root has a sweet flavor and is especially beneficial to those who suffer from thirst, epistaxis, hemoptysis, and hemorrhage due to fever.

Laxative and antidiarrheal, spleen and stomach

Lotus root contains mucus protein and dietary fiber, which can combine with bile salts, cholesterol and triglyceride in food in the body to make it discharged from feces, thus reducing the absorption of lipids. Lotus root exudes a unique fragrance, but also contains tannin, has a certain spleen and diarrhea effect, can enhance appetite, promote digestion, appetizing and healthy, good for poor appetite, loss of appetite to restore health.

Digestive

Lotus root is rich in dietary fiber and trace elements, trace elements in the body to help secretion of digestive enzymes, dietary fiber is beneficial to gastrointestinal peristalsis, to help eliminate toxins and wastes in the body, to promote the body of the digestive and assimilation, so often eat lotus root helps to improve digestion.

Blood and muscle

The nutritional value of the lotus root is very high, rich in iron, calcium and other trace elements, plant proteins, vitamins, and starch content is also very rich, there is an obvious tonic blood, enhance the role of the body's immunity. Therefore, Chinese medicine said it: "the main tonic to nourish the spirit, beneficial to the energy".

Beauty

The dietary fiber in lotus root helps to reduce blood cholesterol, which to a certain extent lotus root plays a role in lowering lipids, and lotus root has more sodium and less potassium, which is conducive to stabilizing the heart rate, regulating blood pressure, and patients with high blood pressure often eat lotus root is beneficial to the heart and the health of the whole body.

Stop bleeding and dissipate blood stasis

The lotus root contains a large amount of tannins, which have a vasoconstrictive effect, and can be used to stop bleeding. Lotus root can also cool the blood and disperse blood, Chinese medicine believes that it stops bleeding without leaving blood stasis, and is a good dietary therapy for feverish blood diseases.

Lowering sugar and blood pressure

The dietary fiber in lotus root helps to reduce blood cholesterol, which to a certain extent lotus root plays a role in lowering lipids, and lotus root in the sodium and potassium, is conducive to stabilizing the heart rate, regulating blood pressure, three high patients often eat lotus root is beneficial to the heart and general health.

The lotus root is rich in iron, potassium, zinc and other trace elements, these trace elements are beneficial to the production of red blood cells, iron deficiency anemia people often eat lotus root, with the effect of blood and blood.

Lotus root food taboos

1. Raw lotus root sex is cold, raw and cold more difficult to digest. The cold spleen and stomach, easy to diarrhea should not eat raw lotus root, hindering the spleen and stomach, so it is advisable to eat cooked lotus root, it is best to eat hot.

2. If the lotus root is black and has an odor, it should not be eaten.

3. Avoid using iron utensils when cooking lotus root, so as not to blacken the root during cooking.

4. Lotus root should be made immediately after cutting. Because the incision is easy to blacken and rot, not done, do not put directly indoors, storage can be used cling film on the incision, put in the refrigerator to save.

5. Soybean and lotus root should not be eaten together, soybeans are rich in iron, can not be eaten with more fiber-containing lotus root, because the fiber will affect the body's absorption of iron.

6. Lotus root is old, young, women and children, frail and sickly people, especially suitable for patients with high fever, vomiting blood, hypertension, liver disease, loss of appetite, iron deficiency anemia, malnutrition. But because the lotus root is cold, maternal should not be eaten too early.

7, avoid cooking with iron pot. Lotus root is rich in iron, it is best to use ceramic or stainless steel utensils to cook, avoid using iron pots, aluminum pots, otherwise it will be black, unsightly, affecting appetite.