First, the effect of lotus seeds:
Lotus seeds are sweet, astringent and flat. Spleen, kidney and heart meridian. Efficacy can tonify spleen, stop diarrhea, tonify kidney, solidify essence, nourish heart and soothe nerves. It is characterized by the homology of medicine and food, and it is a good product for tonifying and strengthening the body resistance.
It is often used to treat diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, nocturnal emission, leukorrhagia and palpitation and insomnia.
Summary of famous works:
Classic: "The Lord tonifies the middle energizer, nourishes the spirit and tonifies the qi."
"Daily Herbal Medicine": "Stop polydipsia, treat diarrhea and stop turbidity."
"Medicinal Solution of Jade Sorbus": "Lotus seeds are sweet and flat, which is very beneficial to the spleen and stomach, but the astringent nature is most suitable for slipping into the house, and nocturnal emission is loose stool, which is very effective."
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "Sweet and astringent, the fruit of the spleen is also. Spleen is the yellow palace, so it can make fire and water and lick the heart and kidney, and calm down the monarch and the fire evil. Benefiting the twelve meridians's blood, astringing essence, thickening the stomach, and removing cold and heat. Treat spleen diarrhea for a long time, white turbidity and wet dream, female metrorrhagia and various blood diseases. "
Second, the compatibility and application of lotus seeds:
1. Used for chronic diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and loss of appetite. Lotus seeds are sweet and nourishing, and astringent can be collected, so they have the effect of tonifying spleen and stopping diarrhea. For spleen and stomach weakness, eating less loose stool, shortness of breath, cough and limb fatigue, it is often combined with Ginseng, Poria, Atractylodes macrocephala, white lentils, Amomum villosum and yam, namely Shenling Baizhu Powder.
"The world doctor has an effective prescription": "Treating dysentery for a long time is not over, and the old lotus seeds are the end. Every time you take a money, the old rice soup is adjusted."
"Herbal Classics": "Treating diarrhea without diet, the common name is mouth dysentery, with fresh lotus meat one or two, coptis five dollars, ginseng five dollars. The water is thick, thin and simmering. "
2. Used for nocturnal emission and spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency. Lotus seeds have the effect of tonifying kidney and solidifying essence. For nocturnal emission and spermatorrhea, it is often combined with Semen Astragali, Os Draconis, Concha Ostreae, Nelumbo nucifera, Semen Euryales, etc., namely Jinsuogujing Pill.
If the urine is white and turbid, and wet dream discharges semen, lotus meat, Alpinia oxyphylla and Os Draconis can be ground into powder, and the lotus meat powder can be obtained by mixing it with clear rice.
3. Used for asthenia, palpitation and insomnia. Lotus seeds can nourish the heart and kidney, and communicate with the heart and kidney. To treat insomnia due to deficiency, it is often combined with drugs such as Ophiopogon japonicus, Poria, and Semen Platycladi to clear the heart and soothe the nerves.
For treating restless heart-fire, restless sleep, excessive yang, vexation and fever of the five senses, or white and turbid nocturnal emission and leucorrhea by women, it is often combined with Scutellaria baicalensis, Ophiopogon japonicus, Cortex Lycii, Bupleuri Radix, Poria and Ginseng.
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Lotus is sweet in taste, astringent in nature in temperature, fragrant in nature, and delicious in harvest, which is the fruit of the spleen. Soil is the mother of vitality, mother qi is harmonious, body fluid is complementary, and God is self-born, and he is tolerant of old age for a long time. In the past, when the heart and kidney failed to meet, the strain was white and turbid, and there was a pure heart lotus seed drink; Nourishing the heart and kidney, benefiting the essence and blood, and having Ruilian Pills all have this principle. "
4. It is used for women's metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia. Lotus seeds have many good effects in nourishing spleen and astringent, nourishing heart and kidney, and treating women's asthenia and leukorrhagia.
5. Used for dietotherapy. Lotus seeds are sweet and tonic, nourishing the five internal organs, and are a good food for health. Porridge is often cooked with mung beans, red beans, longan, pine seeds, lilies, medlar, gordon euryales, coix seed, yam, peanuts and other nutrients, which is rich in nutrition and is popular in Xian Yi, young and old. Lotus seeds are used in traditional laba porridge.
Third, the usage and dosage of lotus seeds:
Lotus seeds can be used as decoction, pill powder or edible. The usual dosage of decoction is more than ten grams to dozens of grams; Eat in moderation.
The green germ in the lotus seed is the lotus plumule. Lotus seeds and lotus plumule have different effects, so lotus seeds must be removed from the heart whether they are used as medicine or eaten.
"A Compendium of Medical Forest": "It is the most beneficial for people to chew raw skin and skin, and it can relieve vexation, quench thirst, astringent essence, blood, stop wet dream and regulate cold and heat. Cooking only treats spleen diarrhea, chronic dysentery and thick stomach, but the function of heart-to-heart and kidney is reduced. If you peel more, there will be no astringency, and its work will stop at invigorating the spleen. "
Wang Angyan said, "Remove the heart and skin, steam and bake. Poria cocos, Chinese yam, Atractylodes macrocephala and Lycium barbarum are obtained. Shi Lian, who is dark and submerged in water, clears his heart, removes annoyance, appetizes and eats, and specializes in treating various diseases such as mouth-closing dysentery and stranguria. "
Fourth, the application of lotus seeds:
Lotus seeds are astringent and tonic, so people with dry stools should not take them.
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Adjuvants: lotus whiskers, lotus plumule, lotus root nodes and lotus leaves.
1. the efficacy and application of lotus roots;
Lotus whiskers are the stamens of lotus. Sweet, astringent and flat. Efficacy can clear heart, strengthen kidney, astringent essence and stop bleeding.
Commonly used in the treatment of wet dream's spermatorrhea, frequent enuresis, hematemesis and metrorrhagia. For wet dream's spermatorrhea, it is often combined with Semen Astragali, Os Draconis, Oysters and Euryale Semen, namely Jinsuogujing Pill.
Lotus roots can be used as decoction or pill powder. A few grams of decoction is usually used, not too much.
"Jade Sorbus Herb Solution": "Lotus-pistils solidify essence to stop bleeding, and they are pleased with their color and beard."
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Sweet and astringent. Clearing heart and activating kidney, nourishing blood and solidifying essence, blackening beard and black hair, stopping dreams, releasing nocturnal emission and spitting blood. Slightly work with lotus seeds. "
2. The efficacy and application of lotus plumule:
Lotus plumule is the tender germ in lotus seeds. Bitter taste and cold nature. Efficacy can clear the heart, soothe the nerves, communicate with the heart and kidney, and stop bleeding.
It is often used for the treatment of heat entering pericardium, delirium, heart-kidney disharmony, insomnia and nocturnal emission, hematemesis due to blood heat, etc. For febrile diseases, it is often combined with Scrophularia, Ophiopogon japonicus and bamboo leaves, that is, Qinggong Decoction.
For hematemesis, nocturnal emission and other syndromes, grind powder can be used alone.
Lotus plumule is often used as decoction or tea substitute, and the dosage should not be too large. A few grams is usually enough.
"Jade Sorbus Herb Solution": "The heart is named lotus seed, bitter cold purges fire, and treats the syndrome of upset and heat."
"Differentiation of Epidemic Febrile Diseases": "Lotus plumule, which moves from the heart to the kidney, can make the heart fire pass down to the kidney and rise again, and can make the kidney water flow to the heart."
"Materia Medica Renews": "Clearing heart fire, calming liver fire, purging spleen fire and lowering lung fire. Relieve summer heat and trouble, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and cure redness and swelling of eyes. "
3. The efficacy and application of lotus root nodes:
Lotus root node, also called old node, is the underground rhizome node of lotus. Sweet, astringent and flat. Efficacy can astringe, stop bleeding and remove blood stasis.
Commonly used in the treatment of hematemesis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematuria, metrorrhagia and many other bleeding syndromes. Lotus root node can stop bleeding and remove blood stasis, so it has the characteristics of stopping bleeding and leaving no blood stasis. Bleeding syndromes are often treated with herbs such as Rhizoma Bletillae and Folium Platycladi.
The common dosage of lotus root joint decoction is more than ten grams to dozens of grams. Raw materials are used to stop bleeding and remove blood stasis, and charcoal is used to stop bleeding.
"Theory of Medicinal Properties": "Pouring juice can stop vomiting blood, and treat it with both mouth and nose."
Compendium of Materia Medica: "It can cure hemoptysis, blood spitting, blood stranguria, blood drowning, bleeding, blood dysentery and blood collapse."
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing blood stasis, stopping vomiting, dysentery and all blood diseases."
4. The efficacy and application of lotus leaf:
Lotus leaf is the leaf of lotus. Bitter, astringent and flat in nature. Efficacy can clear summer heat and eliminate dampness, promote hair and clear yang, cool blood and stop bleeding.
Commonly used in the treatment of summer heat, polydipsia, summer dampness diarrhea, spleen deficiency diarrhea, blood-heat emesis, hematochezia and metrorrhagia. Lotus leaf charcoal tends to astringe and stop bleeding, and is often used for hemorrhagic diseases. For the treatment of summer-heat and epidemic febrile diseases, it is often combined with fresh honeysuckle, flat bean flower, watermelon and jade clothes, that is, Qingluo drink.
For bleeding due to blood heat, it is often combined with Radix Rehmanniae, Folium Platycladi and Folium Artemisiae Argyi, namely Sisheng Pill. * * * Play the role of cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
Lotus leaf is often used as decoction, pill and tea substitute. The usual dosage of decoction is several grams to more than ten grams; The dosage of tea substitute should be light.
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Nourishing vitality, benefiting the spleen and stomach, astringing essence and turbidity, dispersing blood stasis, clearing edema, carbuncle and acne. Treat hematemesis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, bleeding, drowning, bloody stranguria, postpartum hematemesis, injury and septicemia. "
"A Compendium of Medical Forest": "Lotus leaves are similar in merits and demerits to lotus roots and lotus plums, but they enter the liver, calm down heat and remove dampness, so as to clear qi and enter the liver with green. However, the bitter taste, in fact, is to purge the heart and clear the gold and solidify the water, so it can remove blood stasis, preserve essence, remove fever and calm the qi and blood. "
"Compendium of Materia Medica": "Its color is blue, its shape is upturned, it is empty, and its image is shocking. Feeling less yang and a gallbladder. Cooking rice combined with medicine can help the spleen and stomach and raise yang. It can disperse blood stasis and keep good blood. Treat vomiting, bleeding, injury, blood stasis and all blood diseases. "
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