Chinese medicine believes that raw lotus root is sweet, cold and non-toxic. Cooked lotus root is sweet, warm and non-toxic.
【 Efficacy 】 Raw lotus root has the functions of removing blood stasis, clearing away heat, quenching thirst and stopping bleeding (nosebleeds, hematuria, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, etc.). ), resolving phlegm, treating pneumonia, tuberculosis, enteritis, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, and women's bloody collapse. After the lotus root is cooked, its nature changes from cool to warm, and it loses the function of removing blood stasis and clearing heat. It is beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and has the effects of nourishing stomach and yin, nourishing blood and stopping diarrhea.
Nutritional analysis
In tuber food, lotus root has a high iron content, so it is quite suitable for patients with iron deficiency anemia. The sugar content of lotus root is not very high, but also contains a lot of vitamin C and dietary fiber, which is very beneficial to all people with weak constitution such as liver disease, constipation and diabetes.
Lotus root is rich in vitamin K, which can constrict blood vessels and stop bleeding. It is very suitable for women with congestion, hematemesis, nosebleed, hematuria, hematochezia and parturient. Fresh lotus root juice can cure polydipsia, urinary tract infection and nosebleeds, and boiled water can cure milk retention.
Lotus root can be used as both fruit and delicacy, both raw and cooked. Lotus root has good medicinal value whether eaten raw or cooked. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that raw lotus root is cold in nature and sweet in taste. It can remove blood stasis and cool blood, clear away heat and stop vomiting and thirst, and is suitable for polydipsia, drunkenness, hemoptysis and vomiting blood. Women don't eat cold lotus root after delivery, but they don't avoid eating lotus root. Because lotus root has a good dredging effect, there is a folk saying that "new tender lotus root is better than cure too much". Cooked lotus root changes from white to purple, which has the effects of nourishing stomach and yin, strengthening spleen and benefiting qi, and is a good food supplement. Lotus root powder made from lotus root is not only nutritious, but also easy to digest, and has the effects of nourishing blood, stopping bleeding, harmonizing the stomach and appetizing. It is an ideal nutrition for the elderly and the weak.
Usually when eating lotus root, people often remove the lotus root nodes. In fact, lotus root knot is a good medicine to stop bleeding blindly. The taste is sweet, astringent and flat, rich in tannin and asparagine. It is specially used for treating hematemesis, hemoptysis, hematuria, hematochezia, uterine bleeding and other bleeding. There are six or seven lotus root knots commonly used by the people. After mashing, add appropriate amount of brown sugar to decoct to stop bleeding. Coral lotus root slices with good curative effect are a good choice!
1. Peel the lotus root, boil it in water for 25 minutes, and cool it for 3 times.
2. Press the hawthorn cake into mud.
3. Buckle the perforated end of the lotus root in a small bowl filled with hawthorn cakes and keep turning until the hawthorn cakes come out from the perforated end (be patient ~).
4. Slice the lotus root with a knife dipped in water and gently pull out the knife (in order not to let the hawthorn cake fall out).
5, if you like to eat sweet, you can pour sugar juice and sprinkle peanuts.
(Attachment: Boil sugar juice: add a little water to the pot, add sugar, and then simmer patiently on low heat. Boil until it turns yellow, small bubbles become big bubbles, and big bubbles become bubbles. )
Below is my own photo of coral lotus root.
There is also a kind of lotus root braised with south milk, which tastes very special!
1, lotus root and pork belly cut into small pieces.
2. Marinate the meat with salt 10 minute, and add a little oil to fry the pork belly for later use.
3. Add oil and stir-fry lotus root pieces, pour pork belly and cook everything.
4. Add fragrant leaves, pepper, aniseed, two pieces of bean curd, rock sugar, cooking wine, vinegar and a small amount of soy sauce and cook for 30 minutes (preferably in a health pot or casserole).
Glutinous rice lotus root
Materials:
Lotus root, glutinous rice, green shredded pork, honey juice (boiled with sugar).
Production method:
1. Soak glutinous rice for several hours in advance.
2. Wash lotus root, cut into sections and pour in glutinous rice.
3. Cook, cool, slice, pour honey juice and sprinkle with green and red silk.
Features:
Regulate qi and blood, clear away heat and promote fluid production, and eliminate irritability.
Osmanthus fragrans glutinous rice lotus root has an existing method, which is taught to all friends.
Ingredients: lotus root 1 knot, half bowl of glutinous rice, 3 spoonfuls of red pond (45g), 2 spoonfuls of osmanthus honey (30ml) and 6 red dates.
Practice: wash the glutinous rice first, then soak it in warm water for 60 minutes and drain it for later use; Wash red dates. Then scrape off the skin of the lotus root with a knife, cut off 2.5cm from one end of the lotus root and leave it as a cover. Fill the lotus root with glutinous rice, cover the pedicle and fix it with several toothpicks. Then put the brewed glutinous rice lotus root into the pot, add red dates and brown sugar, inject clear water instead of lotus root, cook for 30 minutes on high fire, take out the glutinous rice lotus root and let it cool. Then cut the glutinous rice lotus root into pieces, put it in a dish and pour it with osmanthus honey.
Note: First, put the glutinous rice into the lotus root without leaving a hole. You can poke it with chopsticks while loading it. Then put the prepared glutinous rice lotus root in the refrigerator to cool down, which also has a special flavor.
Preparation time: 75 minutes Cooking time: 40 minutes
Features: Enriching blood and moistening lung, fragrant and delicious. Take several tablets in summer to nourish Shu Tai.
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