Precautions for drinking lotus leaf soaked water

Nowadays, people can eat a lot of meat and fish every day, which will seriously affect their health and make them in a sub-healthy state. Their figure will also become out of shape due to long-term consumption of meat. So if you want to lose weight, soaking lotus leaves in water is actually a very good way to lose weight, and it also has a very therapeutic effect. So what should you pay attention to when drinking lotus leaves in water?

Dietary effects

Lotus leaf tastes bitter, astringent, and cool in nature, and enters the heart, liver, and spleen meridians;

Fresh and refreshing fragrance; it has the effects of relieving heat and dampness, strengthening the spleen and raising yang, dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding;

It is mainly used to treat summer heat, thirst, headache, dizziness, edema, loss of appetite and abdominal distension, diarrhea, leucorrhea, rectal prolapse, hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia, postpartum lochia, and blood stasis caused by injury.

Drinking precautions

1. Lotus leaf tea does not need to be boiled. Just brew with boiling water. It is best to simmer for 5 to 6 minutes so that the tea will be stronger. And even if the tea is cold, its effect will not change, so it can be drunk iced in the summer for a better taste.

2. Strong tea is best. The second brewing will not have any effect, so drinking the first brewing will have the effect of weight loss.

3. It is best to drink it on an empty stomach before meals, as this is most conducive to bowel movements and eliminating edema.

4. You can drink about 3-4 cups a day, divided into time periods, before meals and during afternoon tea.

5. You don’t need to diet while drinking tea, because after a period of time, your taste for food will naturally change, and many people will not like to eat meaty and greasy food.

6. You don’t need to boil the lotus leaf tea, just brew it in the tea bag and simmer for about 5 minutes.

7. You don’t have to drink hot tea. It doesn’t affect the effect if it’s cold. It tastes better when iced in summer. It is not suitable to drink it cold in winter.

Lotus leaf tea with different formulas, brands and specifications has different drinking methods. So treat them differently.

Generally speaking, multiple drinks are required. Drink it between meals. Do not drink lotus leaf tea at mealtimes to avoid affecting food digestion.

Women should stop drinking it during menstruation.

The above article introduces some things you need to pay attention to when drinking lotus leaf tea. The most important point is that female friends cannot drink lotus leaf tea during menstruation, and weight loss also needs to be moderate, don't be too demanding.