Lotus root
Lotus root can be eaten raw or cooked. It has high medicinal value and is especially suitable for the elderly, children, women and the sickly.
The efficacy and function of lotus root
Lotus root can be eaten raw or cooked. It has high medicinal value and is especially suitable for the elderly, children, women and the sickly. Fresh lotus root taste sweet, cold, heart, spleen, stomach meridian; It has the functions of clearing heat, producing fluid, cooling blood, dispersing blood stasis, tonifying spleen, appetizing and preventing diarrhea. It is mainly used in the treatment of fever, polydipsia, vomiting blood, epistaxis, heat shower and other symptoms. The cooked lotus root is warm and sweet. It has the effect of beneficial to the stomach and spleen, nourishing the blood and tonifying the spleen, nourishing the muscle and preventing diarrhea. It is mainly used in the treatment of lung heat cough, irritability and thirst, spleen deficiency and diarrhea, loss of appetite and other symptoms. The efficacy and function of lotus root
Lotus root is the root and stem part of the lotus, and all parts of the lotus can be used for medicine. Because of its special water growing environment and rich nutrients, lotus root has excellent efficacy and function in both edible and medicinal aspects. As an ideal vegetarian food, what are the effects and functions of lotus root?
1. Clear heat and cool blood: lotus root is cold and has the effect of clearing heat and cool blood, which can be used to treat heat diseases; The Gando liquid of lotus root taste is especially beneficial to fever, thirst, epistaxis, hemoptysis and blood.
2, laxative and diarrhea, spleen and appetizer: lotus root contains mucin and dietary fiber, can be combined with human cholate, cholesterol and triglyceride in food, so that it is discharged from feces, thereby reducing the absorption of lipids. Lotus root sends out a unique fragrance, also contains tannins, has a certain spleen anti diarrhea effect, can increase appetite, promote digestion, appetizer health, is beneficial to the stomach is not good, poor appetite to restore health.
3, beneficial blood and muscle: lotus root has high nutritional value, rich in iron, calcium and other trace elements, plant protein, vitamin and starch content is also very rich, has an obvious role in tonifying Qi and blood, enhance human immunity. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine calls it: "the main replenishing the spirit, strengthening the strength".
4. Hemostasis and scattered stasis: lotus root contains a large amount of tannic acid, which has the effect of constricting blood vessels and can be used to stop bleeding. Lotus root can also cool blood and disperse blood. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can stop bleeding without leaving blood stasis. It is a good food therapy for febrile fever.
5, puerpera eat lotus root, can clear the abdominal congestion, promote milk secretion. Lotus root soup has the effect of relieving cough. Drinking the juice of lotus root with skin directly can treat severe cough.
6, lotus root is an excellent hemostatic medicine, its rich tannin, aspartin, specializing in the treatment of all kinds of bleeding, such as vomiting blood, hemoptysis, urine blood, blood in the stool, uterine bleeding and other diseases. .
The nutritional value of lotus root
Lotus root is rich in material content, so its nutritional value is also high. Studies have shown that every 100 grams of lotus root contains: Water 77.9 g, protein 1.0 g, lipids 0.1 g, carbohydrates 19.8 g, calories 84 kcal, crude fiber 0.5 g, ash 0.7 g, calcium 19 mg, phosphorus 51 mg, iron 0.5 mg, carotene 0.02 mg, thiamine 0.11 mg, riboflavin 0.04 mg, Nicoic acid 0.4 mg, ascorbic acid 2 5 mg.
Lotus root contains starch, protein, aspartate, vitamin C and oxidase components, sugar content is also very high, eat fresh lotus root can relieve heat and annoyance, thirst and vomiting; If the fresh lotus root is pressed for juice, its effect is even greater. The cooked lotus root taste is warm and warm, which can invigorate the spleen and appetizer, nourish the blood and nourish the heart. Therefore, the five viscera are mainly filled, which has the effect of digestion, thirst and muscle.
Rich in vitamin C and crude fiber, lotus root can not only help digestion and prevent constipation, but also provide the body with needed carbohydrates and trace elements to prevent arteriosclerosis and improve blood circulation, which is beneficial to health.
In tuber food, lotus root contains higher iron content, so it is quite suitable for patients with iron deficiency anemia. The sugar content of lotus root is not very high, but also contains a lot of vitamin C and fiber, for liver disease, constipation, diabetes and other weak disease people are very beneficial.
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