Lotus leaves are generally harvested in summer and autumn, and July-September is the best harvest time every year. Medicinal lotus leaves are usually harvested when the buds are swollen and red, usually 1~2 days before flowering. When picking leaves, just put the lotus leaf between the leaf and the stem with your fingers, and fold the front outward after picking. After picking, it can be hung or spread in a ventilated place indoors and dried in the shade. After drying, it can be used as packaging material, tea or medicine.

When is the best time to pick lotus leaves?

Lotus leaves are usually picked in summer and autumn, and July-September is the best time and the most suitable season for eating, but the picking time is about half a month.

If it is picked too early, the lotus leaf is too tender and its efficacy is weak. Summer solstice is a good time to pick fresh lotus leaves. Moreover, after the lotus leaves are picked, they can be dried for medicine or eaten fresh.

How to pick lotus leaves?

After picking the lotus leaf, dry it in the sun for seven or eight minutes, and then dry it after removing the petiole. You can also use fresh lotus leaves or newborn leaves in summer.

Usually, lotus flowers need to be picked when the buds are swollen and red, usually 1~2 days before flowering. When picking leaves, just put the lotus leaf between the leaf and the stem with your fingers, and fold the front outward after picking.

When choosing lotus leaves, there are also stresses. The dried lotus leaves have a faint fragrance. It is best to have large, complete leaves, green colors and no spots. After selection, you can soak or boil water.

Efficacy of lotus leaf

There are many health benefits of lotus leaf, but it mainly depends on how to use it together. Different health care partners have different emphases, and according to the individual's sub-health situation, the partners are also different.

1, clearing away summer heat and relieving annoyance

The hot weather in summer not only has the spirit of "summer heat", but also easily causes irritability. Health care should not only prevent "summer heat".

2. Nourish the spleen and stomach

In the traditional health preserving theory, the spleen and stomach are "the source of qi and blood metaplasia" and the source of obtaining various nutrients. Many people think that most people with weak spleen and stomach will lose weight, but in fact, some people with weak spleen and stomach will be "puffy", so that fat will accumulate excessively.

3. Promote fat metabolism

Modern scientific and technological practice has proved that lotus leaves do have this health-preserving effect, and it is more obvious. However, "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica" mentioned that "there are too many lotus leaves, which make people thin and inferior, and must not be used frequently".