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Lotus root starch, Chinese medicine name.

It is a starch processed from the thick rhizome of Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn., a plant of the Nymphaeaceae family.

Distributed throughout the north and south.

It has the effects of benefiting blood, stopping bleeding, regulating the heart, and appetizing.

It is often used for deficiency of blood, diarrhea and diarrhea.

Lotus is also known as lotus, Fuqu, Zezhi, Shuizhi and lotus.

Perennial aquatic herb.

The rhizome is transverse, thick, with enlarged internodes, many longitudinal ventilation holes, and exogenous whisker-like adventitious roots.

There are leaves at the nodes, exposed above the water; the petiole is located in the center of the back of the leaf, thick, cylindrical, and spiny; the leaves are round, 25-90cm in diameter, entire or slightly wavy, pink-green above, with veins shooting out from the center below.

There are 1-2 forked branches.

The flowers are solitary at the top of the pedicel, which is as long as the petiole or slightly longer, and also has small thorns. The flower is 10-20cm in diameter, fragrant, red, pink or white; the petals are oval or obovate, 5-10cm long and 3 cm wide.

-5cm; numerous stamens, strip-shaped anthers, slender filaments, inserted under the receptacle; numerous carpels, buried in the enlarged receptacle, ovary oval, style extremely short.

After flowering, there is a "lotus pod", inverted cone shape, 5-10cm in diameter, with 20-30 small holes, each hole contains 1 fruit; the nut is oval or egg-shaped, 1.5-2.5cm long, with leather texture and hardness.

, dark brown when ripe.

The seeds are oval or oval, 1.2-1.7cm long, with red or white seed coat.

The flowering period is from June to August, and the fruiting period is from August to October.

Grows in swamps, ponds, lakes or paddy fields, wild or cultivated.

Widely distributed in the north and south.