With boiling water add appropriate amount of alkali, not too much, stir evenly, and then into the dry lotus seeds, cover and simmer for a while, and then use the cooker broom in the pot repeatedly pushed and rubbed until the lotus seed skin peeled off cleanly, with a toothpick to remove the heart of the lotus seed, and then take it to the sun won't be blackened it!

1, if you want to save the shape of the lotus seed is recommended air-drying, sun-drying will destroy the shape of the lotus seed, if you only want to dry the inside of the lotus seed is recommended to peel off the lotus seed directly sun lotus seed.

2, air-dried lotus steps: first of all, pick the lotus seed to retain the longer branches, and keep intact without breaking. Will be down, hanging upside down in a cool, ventilated place air-drying, and every two or three days to observe, hanging more than 1 month, the water inside the lotus seed can be all wind dry.

Expanded information:

Lotus seed (traditional Chinese medicine), also known as lotus root solid, water Zhidan, etc., belongs to the water lily family. Seeds of perennial aquatic herbs of the genus Lotus. It is ovate or oval, 1.2-1.7 centimeters long, and the seed coat is red or white. It has the effect of tonifying the spleen, stopping diarrhea, stopping the band, benefiting the kidney and astringent essence, nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind, and is often used for diarrhea of the spleen, hypoglossia, spermatorrhea, palpitations and insomnia. Produced in the provinces of north and south China, autochthonous or cultivated in ponds or paddy fields, and distributed in the USSR, Korea, Japan, India, Vietnam, southern Asia, and Oceania. Perennial aquatic herbs; rhizomes 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.