Description:

荷叶 Lotus leaf tea

Lotus leaf tea can serve as a "cold" tea that helps dispel pathogenic heat, promote urination, benefit the spleen and stomach, and stop bleeding. It has long been recommended as a slimming drug in China. 

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性味

苦；涩；平

性状

叶多摺成半圆形或扇形，展开后类圆盾形，直径20~50 cm，全缘或稍成波状。上表面深绿色或黄绿色，较粗糙；下表面淡灰棕色，较光滑，有粗脉21~22条，自中心向四周射出，中心有突起的叶柄残基。质脆，易破碎。微有清香气，味微苦。

经脉

心经；肝经；脾经；胆经；肺经

主治

清热解暑，升发清阳，凉血止血。用于暑热烦渴，暑湿泄泻，脾虚泄泻，眩晕，血热吐衄，便血，崩漏。荷叶炭收涩化瘀止血。用于多种出血症及产后血晕。

用法用量

• 内服：煎汤，3~10g（鲜品15~30g）；荷叶炭3~6g，或入丸、散。
• 外用：适量，捣敷或煎水洗。

注意禁忌

• 1.《本草从新》：升散消耗，虚者禁之。
• 2.《随息居饮食谱》：凡上焦邪盛，治宜清降者，切不可用。

食疗方

1.山楂决明荷叶汤

山楂、决明子各15g，荷叶半张。山楂切片，荷叶切丝，与决明子加水共煎。取汁代茶饮。

适用于冠心病、高血压、高血脂、肥胖症等。决明子能抑制血清胆固醇的升高，抑制主动脉粥样硬化斑块的形成，其水浸液具有降压作用。荷叶有止渴、散瘀血、助脾胃、消水肿等功效，与山楂合用，可祛脂降压，减肥健身，为高血压之头晕目眩等症之药膳良方。

2.荷花粥

鲜荷叶一张，大米60克。用大米煮粥，待熟时，将荷叶洗净盖在粥上，用文火焖少许荷叶变淡绿色即可。一日服2次，温热服。

能清暑、散淤血，减肥，宁心益气。

3.藿香扁豆饮

鲜藿香(广藿香)30克，鲜荷叶30克，鲜扁豆(白扁豆)汁30克。将上3味药用开水浸泡，代茶频饮。

清暑热，爽神志。主治中暑或因暑热引起的恶心呕吐。

Lotus Leaf/He Ye (16 oz/bag)

For the convenience of mailing, this lotus leaf product will be folded and packaged. 

Lotus leaf tea can serve as a "cold" tea that helps dispel pathogenic heat, promote urination, benefit the spleen and stomach, and stop bleeding. It has long been recommended as a slimming drug in China. 

Lotus leaves and root extracts have long been used in traditional Chinese medicine to help regulate the menstrual cycle and stop excess bleeding. There isn’t a lot of scientific research to back these claims. Some practitioners suggest that drinking lotus root juice or lotus soup can help you avoid anemia after menstruation by building blood to replace what was lost.

https://www.healthline.com/health/8-uses-for-lotus#intro

From the manufacturer: 

The leaves are mostly folded into a semicircle or fan shape and are like a round shield when unfolded, with a diameter of 20-50 cm, and the entire edge or slightly wavy. The upper surface is dark green or yellow-green and rough; the lower surface is light gray-brown and smooth, with 21-22 thick veins, which shoot out from the center to the surroundings, and there are protruding petiole residues in the center. Crisp and easily broken. 

It has a slight fragrance and a slightly bitter taste. It enters the Heart, Liver, Spleen, Gallbladder, and Lung meridians. 

Indications: To clear away heat, to clear yang, cool blood to stop bleeding. Used for heat polydipsia, heat dampness diarrhea, spleen deficiency diarrhea, dizziness, blood-heat vomiting, bloody stool, uterine bleeding. The lotus leaf charcoal collects astringent, removes blood stasis, and stops bleeding. Used for a variety of hemorrhages and postpartum halos. 

Dosage: Oral administration: decoction, 3~10g (fresh product 15~30g)

External use: appropriate amount, pound or decocted to wash.

Cautions: 

1. Ascending and dispersing consumption, [Do not use during weakness with excess sweating] 
2.  [Avoid use during pregnancy]

Diet therapy

1. Hawthorn Cassia lotus leaf soup  

Ingredients:

Hawthorn and cassia seed 15g each, half-piece of a lotus leaf

Slice the hawthorn, shred the lotus leaf, and boil together with cassia seeds.

Take the juice and drink it as tea.  

[Cassia seed clears liver heat, sharpens eye sight, lubricates intestines and promotes bowel movements. Cassia seed is often used in conditions like painful and red eyes, teary eyes, eye sensitivity to light exposure, glaucoma, hypertension, headache, dizziness, dim or blurred vision, and constipation.] (shen-nong.com)

Cassia Seed/Jue Ming Zi (16 oz/Bag) 

Suitable for coronary heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, etc. Cassia seed can inhibit the increase of serum cholesterol, inhibit the formation of aortic atherosclerotic plaque, and its water extract has a hypotensive effect. The lotus leaf has the effects of quenching thirst, dispelling blood stasis, helping the spleen and stomach, and reducing edema. It can be used in combination with hawthorn to remove fat and reduce blood pressure, lose weight, and fitness.  

2. Lotus porridge  

Ingredients:

One fresh lotus leaf and 60 grams of rice. Use rice to cook the porridge.

When it is cooked, wash the lotus leaves and cover the porridge, and simmer the lotus leaves to light green. Take 2 times a day. 

Effects: It can clear heat, dissipate blood congestion, lose weight, calm the heart and replenish qi.  

3. Patchouli, lentil and lotus drink  

Ingredients:

30 grams of fresh Huo Xiang (Patchouli), 30 grams of fresh lotus leaves, 30 grams of fresh lentil (white lentil) juice. Soak those 3 ingredients in boiling water and drink frequently instead of tea.  

Effects: To clear the heat and refresh the mind. Indications of heatstroke or nausea and vomiting caused by heat.