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What nutrients does lotus root have and what benefits does it have to human body?
Lotus root, also known as lotus root, is rich in carbohydrates and vitamin C.

Chinese medicine believes that lotus root tastes sweet and cold, and has the effects of quenching thirst, strengthening spleen and appetizing.

Treatment of bronchiectasis hemoptysis: raw lotus root juice, one cup a day.

Treatment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding: raw lotus root juice, two cups a day, for 3~5 days.

Drinking raw lotus root juice can also treat acute gastroenteritis, nosebleeds, heatstroke and abdominal pain.

Lotus root can be eaten raw and fried, and can also be made into glutinous rice sugar lotus root, white sugar glutinous rice lotus root porridge and other foods.

Lotus root, also known as lotus root, belongs to Nymphaeaceae. Lotus root originated in India and was later introduced to China. It has been cultivated for more than 3000 years. Lotus root is cultivated in southern provinces of China, and there are two kinds of lotus root, namely seven-hole lotus root and nine-hole lotus root. Seven-hole lotus root is widely cultivated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. This variety has excellent texture, thick roots, tender meat, crisp, sweet and white, and people like to eat it. Different parts of the lotus have different names and can be used as medicine. Lotus stems are called lotus stems, and leaves are called lotus leaves and lotus leaf stalks. Lotus root is called lotus root, and the shell is called lotus leaf; The fruit is lotus flesh or lotus seeds, in which the embryo is called lotus heart and the underground stem of lotus is called lotus root (lotus root festival is extremely powerful).

[Ingredients] Every100g of edible part contains 2.3g of protein, 0.01g of fat, 0.8g of carbohydrate, 0.8mg of calcium, 5 1 mg of phosphorus, 4.4mg of iron, vitamin B and vitamin C.

Chinese medicine believes that raw lotus root is sweet, cold and non-toxic. Cooked lotus root is sweet, warm and non-toxic.

【 Efficacy 】 Raw lotus root has the functions of removing blood stasis, clearing away heat, quenching thirst and stopping bleeding (nosebleeds, hematuria, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, etc.). ), resolving phlegm, treating pneumonia, tuberculosis, enteritis, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, and women's bloody collapse. After the lotus root is cooked, its nature changes from cool to warm, and it loses the function of removing blood stasis and clearing heat. It is beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and has the effects of nourishing stomach and yin, nourishing blood and stopping diarrhea.

[Dietotherapy 1]

600g of fresh lotus root slices, 30g of fresh shepherd's purse, and 0/5g of peanut oil/kloc. Sliced lotus root and washed shepherd's purse. Add peanut oil to the wok, heat it, and then put the two ingredients in the wok and cook them before taking them. Generally, it is effective to take 5 ~ 7 times. Indications: postpartum abdominal pain, bleeding caused by hematochezia.

[Dietotherapy 2]

Lotus root powder100g, japonica rice powder 50g and sugar100g. Put lotus root powder and japonica rice powder into bowls respectively, and mix them with warm water to make a paste. Put clear water in the pot, add japonica rice powder, heat it with high fire, and stir it constantly with chopsticks. After boiling, pour in lotus root starch, roll it again, add sugar to taste and serve. This prescription has the effects of nourishing blood, stopping bleeding, invigorating spleen and stimulating appetite. It is suitable for treating women's blood deficiency, blood loss, postpartum weakness and anorexia. It is also a common health care product for women.

[Dietotherapy 3]

Fresh lotus root is mashed and juiced, 50 ~ 100 ml each time, and appropriate amount of white sugar is added orally, 1 ~ 2 times a day, which can cure premature menstruation and menorrhagia of women.

[Dietotherapy IV]

30 grams of lotus root nodes, 9 grams of hair cream, decocted in water. Can be used for treating metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia.

[dietotherapy 5]

Fried lotus root and Sargassum fusiforme in oil. Three meals a day can be used as a side dish for women who are constantly bleeding. Stop bleeding half a month after eating, and you can recover in one month.

[dietotherapy 6]

About half a cup of lotus root juice, three cockscomb flowers and half a cup of water are boiled in a pot, and the residue is drained after cooking. Add sugar to the juice to taste and serve. It can treat red belt.

[dietotherapy 7]

Drink lotus root juice and add 5 ~ 6 drops of plum vinegar. After taking it for 2 ~ 3 months, it can achieve good results in treating menorrhagia and restoring normal menstrual days (about four days).

[dietotherapy 8]

Using raw lotus root slices as a cold drink, drinking 2 ~ 3 cups a day can stop bloody stool.

[dietotherapy 9]

Grinding the knots of lotus root into juice and drinking a cup is the most effective for sleeping due to cough or blood in sputum, and also treats nosebleeds.

【 Dietotherapy 10 】

Take raw lotus root juice and drop it into your nose to stop nosebleeds.

[dietotherapy 1 1]

30 grams of lotus root festival, 30 grams of mountain mast and 9 grams of dried rehmannia root, decocted in water, have an immediate effect on convective nosebleeds, and adults can take 2 doses.

[dietotherapy 12]

30 grams of lotus root nodes and 30 grams of mountain masts are decocted in water for two times, 4 hours 1 time, and taken twice for adults. This prescription has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding and treating epistaxis.

[Dietotherapy XIII]

Slice 500 grams of lotus root, and then sprinkle some hair cream on the lotus root with 120 grams of sugar to treat nosebleeds.

[Dietotherapy 14]

Boil 500 grams of raw lotus root, water chestnut and 500 grams of radish, and add appropriate amount of water. After boiling, remove the residue and take the juice to drink, which can cure nosebleed.

[Dietotherapy 15]

Grind lotus root and wring the juice with gauze. After the leek is ground, wring the juice with gauze, about one cup each. Pour into the same container and steam in a steamer. You can eat. It can cure nosebleeds.

[Dietotherapy 16]

Fresh lotus root1000g, fresh pear 500g. 500g of raw water chestnut, 500g of raw sugarcane and 250g of raw rehmannia root. Juice the five ingredients together, drink a small cup at a time, 3-4 times a day. Can treat hemophilia.

[dietotherapy 17]

Use 500 grams of small and tender lotus root, scrape off mottled spots with a knife, wash it, and scrape it up and down with an aluminum scraper, preferably without holes. Scrape the lotus root completely, wrap the lotus root residue with gauze, prepare a bowl, squeeze out the residue, 500 grams of lotus root juice 250 grams, boil it with half a bowl of water and a tablespoon of rock sugar, saccharify it, pour the lotus root juice and stir.

[Dietotherapy 18]

Take lotus root juice according to 【 Diet 17 】 and put salt instead of rock sugar water. Although the taste is salty and astringent, it is not very delicious, but it is better for the treatment of cough with excessive phlegm.

[Dietotherapy 19]

Take lotus root juice according to [Diet 17], put it on a gas stove and cook it directly into paste, which is also very effective for resolving phlegm and relieving cough. However, the entrance is difficult. When cooking, slowly pour a bowl of crystal sugar water, while stirring, lotus root juice will become a thin paste with water, which is easier to eat.

[Dietotherapy 20]

Crushing lotus root, adding ginger juice, salt and sugar, boiling together, cooling and eating. It can relieve cough and resolve phlegm.

[dietotherapy 21]

All tuberculosis patients often eat lotus root stew, which is very effective for the treatment of the disease.

[Dietotherapy 22]

Slice 250 grams of lotus root and add sugar to eat. Can be used for treating pulmonary tuberculosis and hemoptysis.

[Dietotherapy XXIII]

Some lotus roots are mashed and three persimmons are mixed with wine, which can cure diarrhea due to spleen deficiency. It's very effective. Don't mix it with others.

[Dietotherapy 24]

When children have acute pneumonia, high fever, asthma and cough, and wind-heat insomnia, 9 grams of raw banana heads are taken, mashed with 3 grams of raw lotus roots, and squeezed; Use this juice with 0.3g of antelope horn and 3g of raw mulberry bark, and decoct in soup. When there is one bowl left in two bowls of water, soak 3g of Liuyi powder and 9g of Zhengdong honey for delivery. Take it before meals twice a day.

[Dietotherapy 25]

Lotus root, lotus seed, yam, Euryale ferox, water chestnut, fern and lily are all cooked or ground and steamed. Can be used for treating chronic enteritis.

[Dietotherapy 26]

Using lotus root, wild water chestnut and coix seed, cooking with slow fire for a long time, drinking its juice and taking it for a long time can cure gastric and intestinal ulcers and prevent and treat gastric cancer.

[dietotherapy 27]

Lotus root weighs several kilograms to more than ten kilograms. Wash the ground juice. If you drink it regularly, it can cure stomach and duodenal bleeding.

[Dietotherapy 28]

Mashed fresh lotus root knots and served with wine can treat diarrhea for many years and release peculiar smell.

[dietotherapy 29]

500 grams of old lotus root, cut into thin slices. 10 People put half a pot of water in a rice cooker, bring it to a boil with high fire, and cook three or four large cups with low fire. This is the weight of a day. If you are tired of eating, you can put a little rock sugar or salt for about 2 ~ 3 months, which can cure acute nephritis.

[dietotherapy 30]

A small cup of lotus root juice mixed with a small cup of sugarcane juice, three times a day, is quite effective in treating cystitis and urethritis.

[Dietotherapy 3 1]

For patients with allergic dermatitis, eating more lotus root before the symptoms are cured can promote the recovery of symptoms.

[Dietotherapy 32]

30-50g of lotus root starch, 2-3g of Amomum villosum, 0/-2g of radix aucklandiae/kloc, and appropriate amount of sugar. Placing Fructus Amomi and Radix Aucklandiae in a mortar, and grinding into fine powder. Take 1/5 ~ 1/3 powder at a time, put it in a bowl with lotus root powder and white sugar, brew it with boiling water and stir it into a paste. Take 1 ~ 2 times a day for 2 ~ 3 days. This prescription has the effect of strengthening the spleen and appetizing. It is suitable for treating anorexia or bulimia in children. This recipe should be eaten hot, not cold, so as not to hurt the spleen and stomach.

[Dietotherapy 33]

250g of lotus root and 500g of pig spinal cord (with spines). Boil the two ingredients together in a pot and eat them as a dish, 2 doses per week, usually 4-8 doses to see the effect. This prescription has the effect of nourishing blood and tonifying kidney. It is suitable for the treatment of nocturnal emission, pallor, weakness of limbs and soreness of waist and knees.

[Dietotherapy 34]

200g of old lotus root, 0/00g of glutinous rice150g of sugar150g, and a little osmanthus bittern. Wash lotus root, peel and dice. Wash glutinous rice and soak it in clear water. Add water to the casserole, add diced lotus root and glutinous rice, first cook with strong fire, then cook with slow fire to make porridge, then add sugar and osmanthus. This recipe has the effects of invigorating spleen and stopping diarrhea, stimulating appetite and helping food, nourishing blood and strengthening heart. It is suitable for dietotherapy of weakness, anorexia, diarrhea, chronic illness and postpartum weakness. It is also a common health care product.

[Dietotherapy 35]

Add a little wine and sugar to the crushed lotus root and sliced kumquat, then pour it into boiling water and take it while it is hot. It can cure a long-term cold.

[Dietotherapy 36]

Any fundus hemorrhage caused by hypertension can be stopped by decocting 3 ~ 4 lotus root nodes and 30 ~ 60 grams of fresh buckwheat with water.

[Dietotherapy 37]

For patients with bloating, 3 pieces of persimmon, mashed with stalks and eaten with a little wine, have special effects on treating nausea and vomiting.

[Dietotherapy 38]

Wash 8 inches of pig tail intestine, 60 grams of white lotus meat, pour it into the intestine, tie both ends with thread, boil it, add a little salt, three times a day, two days can cure intestinal hypoxemia, and appetite will gradually recover.

[Dietotherapy 39]

Lotus root 500g, wax gourd1000g sliced. Slice their skins, add appropriate amount of water, cook together, drain the residue and drink their juice. It can treat hematuria.

[dietotherapy 40]

For insomnia caused by upset, 6 grams of lotus root and 6 grams of lily can be decocted for more than three times and less than once. One dose can be decocted three times, if taken three times, it can be decocted nine times, and it can be taken in three days.

[Dietotherapy 4 1]

Fresh lotus root porridge: 50 grams of fresh lotus root, 50 grams of japonica rice and appropriate amount of sugar. Both are boiled into porridge and mixed with sugar. Has the effects of clearing away heat, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and can be used for treating hematospermia caused by blood heat eruption.

[Dietotherapy 42]

Decoct 20g of fresh lotus root node, 20g of mulberry leaf and 20g of fresh lalang grass rhizome in wat; Or add a little rock sugar to 300 ml fresh lotus root juice and take it once in the morning and evening. It is effective in treating nosebleeds, hematemesis, hemoptysis, pulmonary tuberculosis hemoptysis, hematemesis and hematochezia.

[Dietotherapy 43]

Fresh lotus root juice 30 ml, notoginseng 2 g, Wu Bei powder 2 g, warm service, has the effect of hemostasis, pain relief and blood stasis. It is very effective in treating gastric and duodenal ulcer bleeding.

[Dietotherapy 44]

300 grams of lotus root, 20 grams of Ligustrum lucidum, 500 grams of pig spine stew. Can be used for treating qi and blood weakness, limb weakness, soreness of waist and knees, and dizziness.

[Diet therapy 45]

Blanch the lotus root, add appropriate amount of sugar, salt, vinegar and sesame oil according to personal taste and mix well. Store the mixed lotus roots in a sealed bottle and take some as a side dish every meal every day. It can clear the dirt in the intestine, prevent the stool from hardening, stimulate the intestinal wall and prevent constipation.