The efficacy and function of lotus leaves

Lotus leaf is a traditional Chinese medicinal material. There are precedents of using lotus leaf to treat diseases in ancient times, so we can eat it with confidence. Next, I will mainly introduce to you the effects of lotus leaves.

[Source] Medicinal material source: The flower buds of the Asteraceae plant Butterbur.

[Original form] Hairy Beeswax is a perennial herb with flower stems up to 60cm high. The entire anatomical part is covered with thick, spider-like white cotton hairs. The leaves are basal, with long petioles, reniform leaves, 8-10cm long, 8-12cm wide, rounded at the apex, auriculate at the base, serrated at the margin, sparsely woolly above, thicker spider-like white woolly below, with regular veins that appear after flowering. Flowers are dioecious; pedicels emerge from the rhizome, with female pedicels about 60cm high; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 3-4cm long; female capitula about 8mm in diameter, arranged in dense thyrses at the top of the pedicels; involucral bracts in one layer, lanceolate, about 9mm long, acute, often with additional smaller bracts on the outside; female flower corolla apex 4-lobed, lobes awl-shaped, style slender, stigma 2-lobed; male capitula thyrsoid, sparsely arranged, corolla tubular, lobes lanceolate. Achenes; pappus white. Flowering period is April-May.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Grown on subalpine grass slopes or forest edges.

【Nature and flavor】 Spicy; sweet; neutral

【Functions and indications】 Menstrual sputum; cough relief. Mainly cough and sputum

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 3-9g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

The above is an introduction to the Chinese medicinal herb lotus leaf. For medicinal herbs that we don't understand, we should learn more about them so that we can make full use of them in our lives and not be at a loss.