What are the medicinal uses of snow lotus?

It is well known that snow lotus is a precious Chinese medicine with high value. It is a rare herb produced in the snow-capped mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It plays a great role in human health and has been highly praised from ancient times to the present. It has outstanding effects whether as food supplement or as medicine. So what are the uses of snow lotus in clinical medicine? Below I will introduce to you the medicinal effects of snow lotus in detail.

1. Rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis, frozen shoulder and senile waist and leg pain: 20g of snow lotus, 10g of wolfberry and safflower, 2500ml of white wine. Seal and soak for 15 days. Take twice a day. 10-20ml each time.

2. Women with irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, back pain caused by dysmenorrhea, and cold pain in the lower abdomen: 5 grams of snow lotus, 2 grams each of wolfberry and safflower. Decoction in water. Take twice a day. Snow lotus has a certain effect on women with cold hands and feet and retained placenta. Decoction of 15 grams of snow lotus in water, twice a day, for several days; soak 15 grams of snow lotus in 200 grams of rice wine or white wine for 7 days, take orally twice, 20 ml each time, there will be therapeutic results.

3. For stomach cold and stomach pain caused by cold and dampness: 5g snow lotus, 30g red dates, 10g wolfberry, stewed with chicken.

4. Male impotence and infertility: 6g of snow lotus, 3g of angelica, 10g of wolfberry. Decoction in water. Take once a day.

5. Regulate menstruation and replenish blood, nourish yin and kidney: 5g of snow lotus and wolfberry, 2g of safflower, wrap in gauze bag, stew with chicken and eat. Can also be soaked in wine. Use the same as 1.

6. Warming the kidney and strengthening Yang, replenishing the middle and replenishing Qi: 5g of snow lotus and wolfberry, 3g of safflower. Wash and put them in a gauze bag and stew with chicken. Cook for 2-3 hours on low heat and then eat. You can also soak in wine. Use the same as 1

Snow lotus has obvious effect in treating rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic low back and leg pain. After local surgery, 48 cases of traumatic synovitis were treated with snow lotus injection plus normal saline irrigation, with a cure rate of 90%. 2 ml of snow lotus injection plus 0.5 ml of 1-2% procaine were injected into the Xiaguan acupoint once every other day to treat 100 cases of temporomandibular joint disorder syndrome, with an effective rate of 96%.

7. Tonify the middle and replenish qi

Use 5 grams of snow lotus, 15 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 10 grams of Cistanche deserticola, 5 grams of safflower, and 1000 grams of chicken. Wash the medicines, put them into a gauze bag, tie the mouth, put the chicken and the medicine bag into the pot, simmer for 2-3 hours, filter out about 1500 grams of the medicine liquid, and take an appropriate amount each time. It can replenish the middle and strengthen the Qi.

The above is what I introduced to you about the medicinal functions of snow lotus. Snow lotus is slightly cool in nature and sweet in taste. It not only has the effects of dredging and regulating qi, nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney in physical therapy, but also has a good effect on women's beauty, detoxification and acne removal. In addition, snow lotus is also a very good food ingredient. It is often added to warm ingredients such as wolfberry and red dates to make soup, which has a good effect on relieving loss of appetite, anemia, etc.