The advantages of soaking lotus leaves and hawthorn in water together are: reducing fat and losing weight, regulating qi and relaxing the middle energizer, refreshing the mind, resolving phlegm and removing blood stasis, and being suitable for phlegm-dampness obesity, dizziness and lethargy.

Hawthorn and lotus leaf are commonly used traditional Chinese medicines to reduce blood fat. Hawthorn mainly has the effects of invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that hawthorn can "reduce diet, eliminate accumulated meat, eliminate phlegm and acid, promote blood circulation and reduce swelling". Modern research has proved that hawthorn also has the functions of dilating blood vessels, lowering cholesterol and relieving atherosclerosis. Lotus leaf tastes bitter and cool, which can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, promote diuresis and promote yang.

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It should be noted that if diarrhea occurs after taking this prescription, Semen Cassiae can be decocted or discarded. Pregnant women, spleen and stomach weakness, gastric ulcer and hyperacidity should not use this prescription.

The purpose of external treatment and oral administration of traditional Chinese medicine is the same. Soaking feet with decoction can make the medicine reach the internal organs through the plantar reflex zone, adjust the metabolic balance of fat, sugar and salt in the body, reduce fat accumulation, discharge "waste" in the body and enhance the effect of taking medicine.

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