1, weight loss effect of wax gourd, wax gourd is an excellent product for relieving summer heat, quenching thirst, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, and reducing weight and detoxifying. In addition, it also contains the most abundant potassium salt and vitamin C, as well as other nutrients, such as protein, carbohydrates, crude fiber and so on. The nutritional value is very high. Eating wax gourd often can also reduce weight, especially for obese people.
2. The slimming effect of lotus leaf. Flavonoids rich in lotus leaves are scavengers of most oxygen free radicals, which can not only lose weight, but also prevent diseases, such as experimental myocardial infarction, acute myocardial ischemia, coronary heart disease and hypertension. Wax gourd and lotus leaf can be effectively combined to make tea, which can be called a great slimming tea, but in order to maximize its function, we must pay attention to its drinking method and dosage.
How to make tea in wax gourd lotus leaf tea is not difficult, but it needs to master certain skills. Strong tea hurts the stomach, and weak tea has no obvious effect, so it needs to be brewed in a suitable shade.
Ingredients: 300g of candied wax gourd brick (or fresh wax gourd), 5g of dried lotus leaf and 5g of lophatherum gracile.
Tea making steps:
Step 1: Clean the dried lotus leaves and lophatherum gracile leaves, and drain the water for later use.
Step 2: Take a clean pot, put it on the fire, introduce 600 ml of clean water, put the prepared lotus leaf and lophatherum gracile into the pot, boil it with strong fire, and then continue to cook it with slow fire 10 minute.
Step 3: Put the sugar bricks of winter melon into the tea pot and continue to cook for about 5 minutes until the sugar bricks are completely dissolved. Turn off the heat after stirring evenly. Filter out the tea residue, let the tea soup stand and cool, then pour it into a teacup and drink it.
What is the effect of wax gourd lotus leaf tea? First, reduce fat and lose weight. Lotus leaf has the function of lowering blood fat. Lotus leaf alkaloids have the function of reducing blood lipid and are often used to treat obesity in clinic.
Secondly, diuresis and urination. Wax gourd peel has obvious diuretic effect. Soaking the skin of winter melon in water can help to eliminate edema and prevent skin pigmentation, beauty beauty.
Furthermore, cool blood to stop bleeding. Lotus leaf tastes bitter and flat, and belongs to liver, spleen, stomach and heart meridian. Has the effects of clearing away summer heat, promoting diuresis, promoting hair growth, clearing yang, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
Can wax gourd lotus leaf tea drink it often or not for a long time?
From the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, wax gourd and lotus leaf are cool, and drinking too much is easy to hurt the stomach, especially for people with spleen deficiency and cold body. At the same time, because of the cold weather, it is suggested that female friends should not drink wax gourd lotus leaf tea during menstruation. Girls' menstrual period is very cold. If they drink wax gourd lotus leaf tea for a long time, it will cause dysmenorrhea and other problems.
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