The Compendium of Materia Medica states that lotus flowers, lotus seeds, lotus clothes, lotus houses, lotus beards, lotus hearts, lotus leaves, lotus stalks, lotus root joints, etc. can be used medicinally. Lotus flower can activate blood circulation, stop bleeding, remove dampness and eliminate wind, clear the heart and cool the blood, relieve heat and detoxification. Lotus seeds can nourish the heart, benefit the kidneys, tonify the spleen and astringe the intestines. Lotus seed can clear the heart, benefit the kidney, astringe the essence, stop bleeding, relieve summer heat and annoyance, and promote the production of fluids to quench thirst.

The lotus leaf can clear summer heat and dampness, raise the sun to stop bleeding, weight loss and slimming, in which the lotus leaf simple ingredients for cleaning the stomach and intestines, fat and stasis has a miraculous effect. Lotus root energy can stop bleeding, dissipate blood stasis, detoxification. The lotus stem can clear heat and summer heat, pass gas and water, diarrhea and clear the heart.

These Chinese medicines come from the same plant, but different parts of the role is not the same: Lotus root section stops bleeding, dissipate blood stasis; lotus leaves clearing summer heat and dampness, rising Qingyang, stopping bleeding; lotus pedicel clearing heat, heat, and Qi line; lotus leaf tip clearing the summer dampness, and blood and fetal safety; Lotus flower blood stopping, remove dampness and eliminating the wind; Lotus room to eliminate blood stasis, stopping bleeding, removing wetness; Lotus beards clearing the heart, beneficial to the kidneys, astringement, stopping bleeding.

Lotus nutritious, beneficial to the kidneys, tonifying the spleen, astringent intestines, Hunan's "Hunan Lotus" is the most famous; Lotus can be convergence, ZuoSen has been complementary spleen yin; Lotus heart to clear the heart, remove heat, stop bleeding, astringent. Because of the many varieties of lotus, different varieties of different parts, its efficacy may be slightly different.

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One of the lotus edible value

Ancient Chinese folk have the spring folding plum gift away, the fall pick lotus wistful tradition. Since ancient times, the Chinese people have regarded the lotus seed as a precious food, and today it is still a high-level nourishing nutrients, and numerous places specialize in the production of lotus seed. Lotus root is the best vegetable and candied fruit. Lotus leaves, lotus flowers, lotus stamens, etc. are also the Chinese people's favorite medicinal food. It can be seen that the lotus food culture is rich and colorful. Traditional lotus congee, lotus house preserved, lotus seed powder, lotus root slices with meat, steamed meat with lotus leaf, lotus leaf porridge, etc..

Leaves as a substitute for tea, but also as a packaging material. The underground stems of lotus grow in the silt and can be infested with toxic substances, only because the particularly fine epidermal tissue of the lotus root and the hypodermis containing tannin have a certain ability to block or absorb toxic substances, and thus the toxic substances are mostly adhered to the epidermis or infiltrated into the epidermis. In the consumption of lotus root to peel off the outer skin, in order to prevent the toxic substances also eaten into the belly.

Two, lotus ornamental value

(a) lotus water features

Hotel specializing in the garden, China lotus specializing in three kinds of gardens: one is like Wuhan, Wuhan, East Lake Mushan Garden Botanical Garden, the garden to open an ornamental, the study of the lotus as the main large-scale aquatic flower area; two is like Nanjing Mochou Lake, Hangzhou, the new "Courtyard Wind Lotus "This kind of is to appreciate the lotus is mainly large parks; another category is to the fun-oriented, tourism combined with the production of lotus folk tourism resources scenic spots, such as Guangdong Sanshui Lotus World, Hunan Yueyang Tuan Lake Scenic Area.

In landscape gardens as the theme of water plants: as the saying goes, "the garden is not strong without the mountain, the mountain is not beautiful without water," with the lotus arrangement of water features in Chinese gardens is extremely common. South of the famous garden, more than with the appreciation of the lotus landscape building, Yangzhou's Lean West Lake in the embankment built "lotus bridge", the bridge on the Jade Pavilion staggered heights, the shape of the simple and elegant, beautifully chic, and the lotus in the lake, the best place to enjoy the scenery of the Lean West Lake, Yueyang Jin Ouyi Park, the Lotus Square built alongside the water, and the curved bar connected to the remote, the fragrant cattail fengfeng

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The four seasons can be appreciated in the summer flowers: the landscape of the four seasons is different, is the Chinese gardeners abide by the rules of gardening, such as the plum blossom winter, willow willow silk spring, green lotus summer, Tong Leaf shocked in the fall. Lotus green ornamental period of up to 8 months, groups of flowers in 2-3 months or so. In summer and fall, people lack of cicadas, peaches and plums have no words, the pavilion lotus in a pool of blue water emits a refreshing fragrance, make people relaxed and happy.

Multi-level configuration for the foreground, in the landscape, the main landscape: Chinese gardens in the configuration of plants pay close attention to the level of change, in order to form a near and far, different heights of the rich landscape. Willow and lotus and planting is a typical technique. Liu Osprey in the "old man travels" in the "four side of the lotus three side of the willow, a city of mountains and half a city lake" to summarize the Jinan Daming Lake. Hunan Xiangtan's Rainy Lake Park in the spring willow flakes, small lotus dew tip; summer and fall flowers and leaves Pavilion, willow green; winter willow batch snow, residual lotus sound, not lost as a good scenic spot.

Industrial waste water pollution in the waters of the "filter": because the lotus root underground stems can absorb aerobic microbial decomposition of pollutants in the water after the product, so the lotus can help polluted waters to restore the structure of the food chain, and contribute to the gradual realization of the benign cycle of the aquatic ecosystem.

(2) potted bonsai

The lotus has a strong adaptability to the growing environment, not only in the size of lakes, ponds, spitting red shaking Cui, and even in the very small pots and bowls can be elegant, decorating the world. In the history of Chinese lotus culture, this form of pot lotus appeared in the beginning was only used for private garden ornamental. Nowadays, in the gardens all over China, the application of pots of lotus is very extensive.

The combination of potted plants and pool planting arrangement method, improve the ornamental value of potted lotus, in the garden water features and garden vignettes often appear. Lotus water stone bonsai is a new kind of bonsai appeared in Hangzhou. It is the organic combination of lotus potted plants and water and stone bonsai, reflecting the rigidity and uprightness of the stone, but also show the delicate and charming lotus. Lotus bonsai can choose coral stone, sand accumulation stone, axe stone, English stone and other rocks as materials.

(C) the art of flower arrangement

Flower arrangement in China began in the Sixth Dynasty, originating from the flowers in front of the Buddha. As the holy flower of Buddhism, it can be said that flower arrangement in the rise of facilitate the lotus has formed an inseparable relationship. During the Tang and Song dynasties, flower offerings remained a major form of flower arrangement. To the Ming and Qing dynasties, the art of flower arrangement has made great progress, at this time the lotus flower arrangement both artistic depth and skills, have risen to a new level, can be called the heyday of the ancient Chinese art of flower arrangement.

With more in-depth study of the lotus flower arrangement, not only the lotus, lotus leaves, lotus root and lotus seeds and other materials in the flower arrangement in the use of more and more common, but also on the ornamental effect of these materials have been scientifically compared. Lotus flower arrangements generally choose small and medium-sized varieties appropriate, but also appropriate with other plants, leaves, fruits, and strive for colorful and bright composition, enjoy the effect can be maintained for 3-4 days.

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