Dried lotus leaves can lose weight, and people have regarded lotus leaves as a good medicine for slimming since ancient times. The chemical components of dried lotus leaves mainly include nuciferine, citric acid, malic acid, gluconic acid, oxalic acid, succinic acid and other alkaline components with anti-mitotic effect, which have many functions such as decomposing fat, eliminating constipation and diuresis. Dried lotus leaves have the function of "slimming and transforming oil" in the records of Chinese medicine classics, which can not only remove oil from the body but also improve the complexion. In Compendium of Materia Medica, it is recorded that "lotus leaves can raise yang, remove fat and lose weight". After losing weight with dried lotus leaves for a period of time, people will become reluctant to eat greasy food, which is most suitable for people who consume too much oil.

Modern research has found that lotus leaf has a good effect of reducing blood fat, and the course of treatment is about 20 days, which can effectively reduce the cholesterol content in the body, so it is often used to treat obesity in clinical medicine.

You can drink it directly by soaking in hot water, because it has low calorie, and it has the function of clearing the intestines and defecating, which can effectively promote digestion and accelerate the metabolism of the human body. Besides, it also has a feeling of fullness after drinking, which can reduce people's appetite and avoid excessive fat intake. It can be said that it is a very good tea for losing weight.

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Other effects of dried lotus leaves

Lotus leaf, mainly distributed in Central Asia, West Asia, North America, Indian, China, Japanese and other subtropical and temperate regions, is the dry leaf of perennial herb emergent plant of Nelumbo. Lotus leaf has the functions of clearing summer heat and eliminating dampness, promoting hair growth and clearing yang, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and is suitable for treating summer heat and polydipsia, summer heat and dampness diarrhea, spleen deficiency diarrhea, hematemesis due to blood heat, hematochezia and metrorrhagia.

Besides losing weight, dried lotus leaves have other functions.

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Lotus leaf is cool, which has the functions of clearing heart, cooling blood, removing summer heat and dampness, clearing heart fire, calming liver fire, purging spleen fire and lowering lung fire. In the past, people used to make lotus leaf porridge and lotus leaf tea to cool off the heat.

Step 2 eliminate edema

People who commonly drink lotus leaf soaked in water can diuretic and detoxify, and have abnormal water metabolism in the body and edema of lower limbs can drink lotus leaf tea to eliminate edema. However, the effect of lotus leaf to eliminate edema is very general, and lotus leaf can be used with winter melon seeds to make tea with severe edema.

Step 3 relieve constipation

Lotus leaf contains nuciferine, which will stimulate the intestinal tract and promote intestinal defecation. People with signs of constipation drink lotus leaf tea every day, which can make the stool smooth.

4. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases

Lotus leaf is rich in flavonoids, which has strong anti-oxidation. It can scavenge free radicals, reduce the damage of free radicals to blood vessel walls, increase the blood flow of coronary arteries, eliminate myocardial infarction, and prevent and treat hyperemia and coronary heart disease.

5. Hemostasis

After the lotus leaf is charred, the lotus leaf charcoal has a good effect of removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and can be used to treat various hemorrhagic diseases and traumatic bleeding.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lotus Leaf Tea