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What are the benefits of lotus?
Lotus is full of treasures.

Effects of different parts of lotus:

Lotus: warm in nature and bitter and sweet in taste. Function of eliminating dampness and expelling wind, treating traumatic injury and vomiting blood.

Lotus House: Warm in nature and bitter in taste. Function of removing blood stasis, stopping bleeding and removing dampness. Treat menorrhagia, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, bloody stranguria, hemorrhoids, etc.

Lotus beard (lotus beard): flat in nature and sweet in taste. Function: clearing heart and tonifying kidney, astringing essence and stopping bleeding. Wet dream for treating nocturnal emission, hematemesis and epistaxis.

Lotus seeds: flat in nature and sweet in taste. It contains a lot of starch, protein, phosphorus, iron and so on. Function of nourishing heart, kidney, spleen and intestine. Treat dreaminess, chronic dysentery, gonorrhea, etc.

Lotus plumule: cold in nature and bitter in taste. Functions: clearing away heart fire, clearing away heat and stopping bleeding, astringing essence and lowering blood pressure. Treat vexation, thirst, nocturnal emission, hematemesis, conjunctival congestion, swelling and pain, and hypertension.

Lotus leaf: flat in nature and bitter in taste. Has the effects of clearing away summer heat, promoting diuresis, promoting hair growth, clearing yang, and stopping bleeding. Treat summer-heat dampness diarrhea, dizziness, thunderstorm, bloody stool, etc.

Lotus leaf pedicle: flat, sweet and bitter. Function of clearing away heat and dampness, promoting blood circulation and preventing miscarriage. Treat bloody dysentery, diarrhea and fetal movement during pregnancy. Lotus root: cold in nature and sweet in taste. Contains starch, protein, asparagine, vitamin C, etc. Functions: clearing away heat, cooling blood, removing blood stasis, treating fever, polydipsia, vomiting blood, etc. Familiar with strengthening spleen, appetizing, enriching blood, promoting granulation and stopping diarrhea. Treat indigestion and diarrhea.

Lotus root knot: flat in nature and sweet in taste. Function to stop bleeding and remove blood stasis. Treat hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematuria, hematochezia, blood collapse, etc.