Honghu lotus seed and Xianglian seed are the same, have the effect of pass and so on.

Lotus seed, Chinese medicine name. For the water lily plant lotus dry mature seeds. Distributed in China's north and south provinces. It has the effect of tonifying the spleen and stopping diarrhea, stopping the belt, benefiting the kidney and astringent essence, nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind. Often used in the spleen deficiency diarrhea, bring down, spermatorrhea, palpitations and insomnia.

Perennial aquatic herb; rhizome transverse, plump, internodes expanded, with most longitudinal aeration channels, nodes constricted, bearing black scale leaves above, bearded adventitious roots below. Leaves orbicular, peltate, 25-90 cm in diam., slightly undulate throughout, smooth and whitish above, veins shooting out from the center below, with 1-2 times forked branches; petiole stout, terete, 1-2 m long, hollow, outside scattered with small spines. Pedicel as long as or slightly longer than petiole, also scattered with small spines; flowers 10-20 cm in diameter, beautiful, fragrant; petals red, pink, or white, rectangular-elliptic to obovate, 5-10 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, tapering from outside to inside, sometimes becoming stamens, apex rounded-obtuse or subacute; anthers striped, filaments slender, inserted under receptacle; style extremely short, stigma terminal; receptacle (rosette) diam. 5-10 cm in diameter. Nut ellipsoid or ovate, 1.8-2.5 cm, leathery, hard, black-brown when ripe; seeds (rosettes) ovate or ellipsoid, 1.2-1.7 cm, seed coat red or white. Flowering period June-August, fruiting period August-October.