The description of the efficacy of lotus leaf in Compendium of Materia Medica is:? Quench thirst, abort and break blood, cure postpartum dry mouth and heart and lung irritability (Daming). Treat abdominal pain caused by blood distension, and if the placenta cannot be retained after delivery, take it with wine. Lotus seed nose: it can prevent miscarriage, dispel pathogenic blood, nourish blood, stop dysentery, sterilize with mushroom poison and boil water to take (Tibetan medicine). Nourishing primordial qi, benefiting spleen and stomach, astringing and smoothing, dissipating blood stasis and stagnation, eliminating edema and swelling, removing acne, and treating hematemesis, hemoptysis, hemorrhage, bloody stranguria, postpartum hemorrhage and traumatic injury sepsis (clockwise). ?
Lotus leaf effect: 1, lose weight. Lotus leaf contains a variety of alkaloids, which is helpful to reduce blood fat and is also used to treat obesity in clinic. Drinking lotus leaf water often helps to reduce blood lipids, and at the same time can reduce the body's absorption of fat, thus fundamentally losing weight.
2. Reduce blood fat. Alkaloids contained in lotus leaves can decompose body fat and excrete it, thus reducing blood lipids.
3. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Lotus leaves contain compounds with strong antioxidant capacity, which can remove free radicals from blood, thus reducing the damage of free radicals to blood vessel walls. At the same time, the hypolipidemic effect of lotus leaves further reduces the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases.
4, summer heat, diuresis, laxative. Lotus leaf alkaloids in lotus leaves have the functions of relieving summer heat, clearing heart fire and calming liver, which is helpful to relieve summer heat and refresh oneself. Drinking lotus leaf tea often helps to moisten the intestines and relieve constipation.