1, the nutritional value of lotus leaves
Lotus leaf contains many similar alkaloids, such as nuciferine and liensinine. Flavonoid glycosides, such as nuciferin, Quercus flavonoid glycosides and Isoquercus flavonoid glycosides. Lotus leaf is sweet, slightly bitter and flat. Fresh leaves have the effects of relieving summer-heat, clearing away heat, inducing diuresis and stopping bleeding, and are mainly used for heatstroke, enteritis, dizziness, hematemesis, hematuria and functional uterine bleeding. Dried leaves have the effects of enhancing vitality, stimulating spleen appetite, reducing blood lipid and cholesterol, and are effective in treating arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease.
2, lotus leaf soaked in water to lose weight
Drinking lotus leaf water often can effectively reduce weight, because alkaloids in lotus leaf have the function of lowering blood fat, which is often used to treat obesity in clinic. The weight loss principle of lotus leaf is to form a layer of fat isolation film on the human intestinal wall after taking it, which can effectively prevent the absorption of fat, lose weight fundamentally and control the rebound more effectively.
3. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases
Lotus leaf is rich in flavonoids and has strong antioxidant effect. It can eliminate free radicals, reduce the damage of free radicals to blood vessel wall, increase coronary blood flow, eliminate myocardial infarction, and prevent and treat congestion and coronary heart disease.
4. Lotus leaves reduce blood fat
It is proved by clinical salt that lotus leaf has the function of lowering blood fat and cholesterol, and is effective in treating hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Nelumbine contains a variety of effective lipolytic alkaloids, which can effectively decompose body fat and excrete it forcefully. Lotus leaf alkaloids can densely cover the human intestinal wall, forming a layer of fat isolation film to prevent fat absorption and accumulation.
5, lotus leaves to cool off the heat
Lotus leaf alkaloids in lotus leaf tea have the effects of clearing away heart fire, calming liver fire, purging spleen fire, clearing heat and nourishing heart. The fire-extinguishing function of lotus leaves makes lotus leaf tea a well-deserved nourishing heart.
6, lotus leaf diuretic laxative
Drinking lotus leaf tea regularly can moisten the bowels and relieve constipation, which is conducive to detoxification. People with signs of constipation drink lotus leaf tea four times a day, which can make the stool unobstructed and help to lose weight.
7, lotus leaf taboo
People with qi deficiency and spleen and stomach weakness should not eat lotus leaves.
8. Side effects of lotus leaf tea
1, nausea and vomiting
Individual lotus leaf tea products may be unclean and contain impurities. This phenomenon is due to the fact that some places use harvesters to pick lotus leaves in a large area, which leads to extremely dirty lotus leaves. Some pharmacies and supermarkets are made of this kind of lotus leaf, and people feel sick after drinking this kind of lotus leaf tea.
2. Chronic poisoning
Lotus leaf tea may contain pesticides. At present, the south is the high-yield place of lotus leaf tea, and 98% of lotus leaf tea comes from the south. Lotus leaves in the south are planted in a large area, and people usually spray pesticides to prevent insects. Therefore, individual lotus leaf tea may contain pesticide residues, and long-term consumption of lotus leaf tea containing pesticides will lead to chronic poisoning. Patients with pesticide poisoning may have mild symptoms such as headache, dizziness, nausea, burnout and abdominal pain. And severe symptoms such as spasm, dyspnea, coma, incontinence and even death.
3. Induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
Lotus leaf tea may contain chemical fertilizer. Lotus leaf tea in the south is often sprayed with chemical fertilizer to increase its yield. This kind of lotus leaf tea containing chemical fertilizer naturally has no effect of losing weight, but drinking too much is also bad for the human body.
The accumulation of chemical fertilizer in human body can easily induce hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Fertilizer has become the biggest potential killer in our food structure, so we should avoid eating too much lotus leaf tea containing fertilizer.