What is the function of snow lotus?

At present, snow lotus is a very good health-care medicinal material because it has many benefits to the human body. So what is the role of snow lotus and what benefits does it have for the human body? Snow lotus is often used to relieve patients' joint pain, and as a very good anti-edema medicinal material, it is widely used in clinical applications. Snow lotus has many other effects. Let's take a detailed look at it below.

1. Snow lotus can treat cardiovascular disease. In addition to being produced in Tibet, snow lotus is also distributed in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan in my country. People in various places use the whole plant of snow lotus as medicine, which is mainly used to treat snow blindness, toothache, rheumatoid arthritis, impotence, irregular menstruation, menorrhagia, leucorrhea and other symptoms. Indian people also use snow lotus to treat many chronic diseases. Such as gastric ulcer, hemorrhoids, bronchitis, heart disease, nose bleeding and snake bites. Snow lotus has a long history as a medicine in Tibetan medicine. It is recorded in the Tibetan medical literature "Yuewang Yaozhen" and "Four Medical Classics".

2. Snow lotus contains physiologically active ingredients. Among them, umbelliferone has obvious antibacterial, antihypertensive, sedative and antispasmodic effects; scopolamine has wind-dispelling, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, expectorant and anti-tumor effects. The clinical efficacy of Chinese medicine in treating acute and chronic bronchitis is 96.6%. Apigenin has smooth muscle spasmolytic and anti-gastric ulcer effects; and ankylosing phenanthene has obvious choleretic effect. Of particular interest is the colchicine contained in snow lotus, which is a typical representative of cell mitosis and can inhibit the growth of cancer cells. It is used clinically to treat cancer, especially breast cancer. It also has certain effects on skin cancer, leukemia and Hodgkin's disease. It has specific effects on acute attacks of gout, reducing inflammation and quickly relieving pain within 12-24 hours. Long-term use can reduce the number of attacks.

3. Snow lotus has estrogen-like activity, which can prolong the estrus and metestrus of rats, and shorten the diestrus and proestrus. However, colchicine is highly toxic and can cause nausea, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, and in severe cases, side effects such as intestinal paralysis, constipation, and sore limbs. Because snow lotus contains colchicine, which is effective but highly toxic, people are advised not to take too much snow lotus when making wine to treat rheumatoid arthritis and gynecological diseases.

Although it is only a dried product of snow lotus, it still retains the fragrance and certain functions of snow lotus. It needs to be soaked for a period of time when cooking, and then added to the dish with the flowers and water to make the snow lotus flavor come out.

Through the above introduction to the effects of snow lotus, in fact, for rare medicinal materials such as snow lotus, it can treat various joint diseases, clear away heat and detoxify, relieve human pain, and treat various rheumatic joint diseases. Therefore, when encountering joint problems, you should pay attention to choosing snow lotus and taking it correctly to promote human health.