From June to July, when the flowers are not in bloom, harvest, remove the petiole, dry in the sun until 70% to 80% dry, fold into a semicircle and dry in the sun. Fresh or tender leaves are also used in summer.
Lotus leaves are mostly folded into semi-circular or fan-shaped, and after unfolding, they are round-like, with a diameter of 20 to 50 cm, and are whole or slightly wavy. The upper surface is dark green or yellow-green, rough; The lower surface is light taupe and smooth, with 2 1 to 22 thick veins. The center of the lower surface radiates around, and there is a protruding Ye Xixia Qian Ji in the center. Fragile and easily broken. Slightly fragrant, slightly bitter.
It is best to have big, clean and green leaves. They should be dried, not dried! Sun-dried lotus leaves retain too much water, although the appearance is green and beautiful, but it is easy to get moldy! The content of effective substances is relatively low.
Nutritional analysis
Lotus leaf contains many alkaloids such as brucine, imperatorin, nuciferine and vitamin C, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood, stopping bleeding and losing weight.
additional information
The raw materials of lotus leaf tea are divided into lotus leaf and lotus leaf charcoal due to different brewing methods, which are stored in a dry container and placed in a ventilated and dry place.
Lotus leaves are mild in nature and taste, and can be used with a variety of scented teas.
Precautions: This product cannot replace medicine. Pregnant women should use it with caution!
For the public.
Suitable for simple obese people. And people with gastrointestinal constipation.
Physical and chemical characteristics
People love lotus leaf tea so much because it is natural, lipid-lowering, detoxified and light in weight, in addition to its health care and recuperation functions. Living in a noisy city for a long time, people suffer from urban diseases such as greasy diet, sedentary stagnation of qi and blood, bloated body, bulging waist and abdomen, excessive drinking of coffee, strong tea and sweet and greasy soda. Who doesn't want some simple and relaxed natural lotus leaf tea to relieve obesity, detoxify and lose weight? Imagine drinking natural lotus leaf tea every day, your body can regulate the intestines healthily, expel the toxin accumulation caused by too much food with high toxin content, make your body lighter, your abdomen thinner, feel refreshed and your skin color better. Let the body return to the natural cycle, which is the call of every urban white-collar worker's body and mind, and awaken the light soul in the deep body that has been far away from nature for a long time. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the ancestors made lotus leaves and lotus leaves into tea as tonic medicine. Lotus leaves and lotus leaves have been in China for more than 2,000 years. Lotus leaf and lotus flower are representatives of holiness and symbols of holiness and purity of Buddhism. Lotus leaves the dust, clean and flawless. Therefore, the people of China and most Buddhist believers take the noble quality of lotus as their motto, encouraging themselves to lead a totally clean life. In ancient times, Zhou Dunyi, a writer of the Song Dynasty, wrote "The Theory of Love Lotus", which best reflected this point. At the same time, lotus is the symbol and messenger of friendship.
According to Compendium of Materia Medica, lotus leaf, lotus seed, lotus coat, lotus house, lotus beard, lotus plumule, lotus leaf, lotus stalk and lotus knot can all be used as medicine. Lotus leaf can promote blood circulation to stop bleeding, dispel dampness and dispel wind, clear heart and cool blood, and clear away heat and toxic materials. Lotus seeds can nourish the heart, kidney, spleen and intestine. Lotus beard can clear the heart and benefit the kidney, astringe essence and stop bleeding, relieve summer heat, relieve annoyance, promote fluid production and quench thirst. Lotus leaf can clear away heat, relieve summer heat, promote diuresis, strengthen yang and stop bleeding, and its components have miraculous effects on clearing stomach, reducing fat and removing blood stasis. Lotus root can recharge your batteries, stop bleeding and remove blood stasis, and clear away heat and toxic materials. Lotus root can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, benefit water, purge fire and clear heart. Lotus is really a treasure!
In ancient China, there was a tradition of sending plums in spring and picking lotus in autumn. Since ancient times, Chinese people have regarded lotus seeds as precious food, and they are still high-grade nourishing nutrition. Many places specialize in producing lotus seeds. Lotus root is the best vegetable and preserved fruit. Lotus leaves, lotus flowers and lotus plums are also popular medicated diets in China. It can be seen that the diet culture of lotus leaves and lotus flowers is rich and colorful. Traditional lotus seed porridge, preserved lotus seed, lotus seed powder, lotus root slices with meat, steamed lotus leaf meat, lotus leaf porridge, etc. , too numerous to mention. Lotus leaves taste bitter and flat, and return to the heart, liver and spleen meridians;
The fragrance rises and falls; Has the effects of dispelling summer heat, promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen, strengthening yang, removing blood stasis, and stopping bleeding.
Indications are summer heat, polydipsia, headache, dizziness, edema, anorexia, abdominal distension, diarrhea, leucorrhea, proctoptosis, hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, postpartum lochia and blood stasis. [Ingredients] Dry lotus leaf, appropriate Chinese herbal medicine or appropriate ingredients.
[[Usage] It can be brewed with boiling water, and the specific dosage and usage depend on the specific product.
[Efficacy] Lose weight and reduce blood fat.
Precautions:
1. The dried lotus leaf mentioned here refers to the dried lotus leaf, which is easy to mold. Do not use it.
2. Lotus leaf tea can be brewed with boiling water for drinking.
3, lotus leaf tea is convenient to drink, can be used all year round, is relatively easy to adhere to, and is suitable for most people who lose weight.
The following are some points about the production of lotus leaf tea. We think that the production of lotus leaf tea is not so simple, so we must prevent mildew.
Drinking skills
1. It's better to make it thicker and brew it with water for many times to let a large number of effective ingredients dissolve out. Don't just pour it once.
2. People with signs of constipation can increase the frequency appropriately. Smooth stool is more helpful to lose weight.
It is best to drink it before meals, but avoid drinking it within half an hour before meals, so as not to affect food digestion. If you want to drink after meals, you should start drinking every hour.
Grams of food stage
Lotus leaves are afraid of tung oil and silver.
Guide to medical practice
1. clearing away heat and relieving summer heat should be used raw, and removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding should be used charcoal.
2. Fresh people are good at clearing away summer evil, and they are often combined with fresh Pogostemon cablin, fresh Eupatorium odoratum and watermelon Cui Yi in clinic.
3. It can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also promote spleen yang. For summer heat diarrhea, it is often used with lentils.
4. In addition, for patients with spleen deficiency and qi stagnation and diarrhea, it can also be used to strengthen spleen and stomach.
Cooking purpose: Cooking raw materials, extracting their fragrance, improving the taste and relieving boredom. It is often used to roast or wrap vegetables, such as steamed chicken with lotus leaves or lotus leaf rice.
side effect
Lotus leaf tea has almost no side effects because it is mild.
It should also be noted that some friends are allergic to the ingredients of lotus leaf slimming tea such as lemon. But this is a normal phenomenon, not a side effect.
Special reminder: pregnant women and women should not drink lotus leaf slimming tea during menstruation.
Choose different formulas of lotus leaf tea according to taste preferences, and lotus leaves will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.
1.7-September has the best quality.
2. According to the specifications, the quality of lotus leaves can be divided into four grades: thin thread, wide thread, large piece and baking, among which large piece and baking are the best.
3. Lotus leaf tea is best to be wild fresh lotus leaves. Wild lotus leaves have not been artificially cultivated by hormones. Fresh lotus leaves ensure the fresh taste of lotus leaf tea, while white lotus leaves are thinner, fresher and not bitter.
4. A common compatibility of lotus leaf tea:
Lotus leaf, rose, chamomile, luoshen flower, cassia seed.
Lotus leaf: Compendium of Materia Medica holds that lotus leaf can detoxify and heal sores, and it is a good medicine for lowering blood fat, clearing away heat, calming the heart and benefiting color, and nourishing the skin and strengthening the body.
Rose: It has a strong aroma, beauty beauty, dredging meridians, harmonizing liver and spleen, and regulating spleen and stomach.
Chamomile: Originated in Britain, it can relieve pain, induce diuresis, improve sleep, make people calm, and enhance slimming effect with lotus leaves.
Luoshenhua: Originated in India, it has remarkable antibacterial, digestive, moisturizing and laxative effects, and its medicinal value is immeasurable.
Cassia seed: improving eyesight, nourishing liver and kidney, latent qi and nourishing yin.
Function: slimming tea can strengthen fat metabolism, make the stomach unobstructed, expel toxins, make you easily maintain a beautiful curve and have a light and natural figure.
The processed lotus leaves are bitter, slightly salty and flat. They have the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, promoting diuresis and activating yang, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and have certain curative effects on many diseases. Moreover, the tea brewed for the second time is ineffective, although it can be brewed as many times as long as the color can be brewed. But apart from the first bubble, it is impossible to lose weight. People with signs of constipation drink lotus leaf tea four times a day, which can make the stool unobstructed and help to lose weight. It is best to drink on an empty stomach. Drink before meals. No need to go on a diet.
Huangshuichuang is an infectious skin disease, which is stubborn. "Selected Works of Unilateral New Medical Treatment" contains: lotus leaf charcoal, ground into fine powder, mixed with sesame oil, applied to the affected area twice a day, with special effects.
Diarrhea in summer and autumn, vomiting and diarrhea are caused by feeling hot and humid in summer or unclean diet. Diarrhea is urgent and powerful, and feces are yellow and smelly. This product can be used for clearing away summer heat, promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen and stomach, astringing intestine and stopping diarrhea. Wash the lotus leaves, stir-fry them in a pot, cool them and grind them into fine powder. Take 10 ~ 15g and take it with white sugar. Take it three times a day and it will be fine in a few days.
Lacquer sore is allergic dermatitis caused by paint allergy. "The General Record of Shengji" contains: 500 grams of lotus leaves are dried in the sun, fried in 5000 ml of water to 2500 ml, scrubbed on the affected area, and applied with Rhizoma Osmundae and oil twice a day, several times.
Dried and ground lotus leaves with edema, each time 10g, taken with millet soup, three times a day. Gui Xiang lotus leaf tea is effective in treating facial edema and short and red urine caused by various reasons.
Ingredients: half a lotus leaf, 50g hawthorn, 2g cinnamon 1 branch, 2ml cold water 1000ml, 2 tbsp rock sugar.
Exercise:
1. Cut the lotus leaf into pieces, put it in water, put it on the stove and boil it with low fire, then add hawthorn and cook for about 5 minutes.
2. Add cinnamon and rock sugar and cook for another 3 minutes.
Efficacy: invigorating the stomach, removing blood stasis and phlegm, dredging collaterals and promoting blood circulation.
Hawthorn lotus leaf tea
Materials: hawthorn 15g, cassia seed 15g, lotus leaf 1.
Practice: Wash and slice hawthorn 15g, wash and shred half of lotus leaf, put it with cassia seed 15g * * into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, filter to remove residue and take juice for drinking. Always drink tea instead of tea.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting hair growth and clearing yang, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding.
Jasmine lotus leaf tea
Ingredients: 3g of green tea, 3g of jasmine, lotus leaf 1.
Exercise:
1. Cut the lotus leaf into small pieces.
2. Put the lotus leaf and the other two materials into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, and decoct together for about 5 minutes before drinking.
Efficacy: effectively eliminate summer heat, drive away excess heat in the body, and improve the symptoms of dizziness and chest tightness in summer.
Lycium barbarum lotus leaf tea
Ingredients: 8 grams of Lycium barbarum, 0/5 grams of dried lotus leaf/kloc-,and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice: put medlar and lotus leaf into the teapot, add boiling water and cover it for a few minutes, then add a proper amount of rock sugar.
Efficacy: eliminate fatigue, keep fit and lose weight.
rose
Ingredients: Rose, Luoshen Flower, Stevia rebaudiana, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Semen Cassiae and Lotus Leaf.
Exercise:
1. First put the materials into the pot, pour boiling water and stir for one minute, mainly to clean the materials. Then pour out the water.
2. Add the right amount of water, bring it to a boil and simmer for a few minutes.
Efficacy: Rose lotus leaf tea contains a variety of natural herbal ingredients, which can strengthen fat metabolism, help smooth the stomach, excrete waste and toxins, and make the body light and natural. But you can't drink it with pregnant women during menstruation!
Lotus leaf herbal tea
Ingredients: dried lotus leaf 2 yuan, a bag of flowers and plants, honey 15cc.
Exercise:
1. Put all the ingredients into the teapot, boil the water, then rush into the teapot and stew for 5 minutes until it tastes delicious.
Efficacy: Flowers and plants are fragrant and delicious, can remove greasy, eliminate flatulence, promote metabolism, promote bile secretion and decompose excess fat in the body, and a variety of beneficial ingredients can beautify the face. Paired with lotus leaves can better remove intestinal oil and lose weight.
Lotus leaf slimming tea
Ingredients: 3 grams of lotus leaf, 0/5 grams of hawthorn/kloc-,5 grams of raw rhubarb, 3 grams of licorice, and 2000㏄.
Exercise:
1. Wash all forage for later use.
2. Put the materials of method 1 together with water into the pot, first boil with high fire, and then turn to low fire to continue cooking for about 30 minutes.
3. After filtering all the materials, let them stand and cool.
Efficacy: It can effectively reduce fat accumulation and improve the problem of poor defecation. People who want to solve constipation can drink it every day, but people with habitual diarrhea should drink it properly.
Lotus leaf hawthorn barley slimming tea
Ingredients: dried lotus leaf, dried hawthorn, coix seed and dried tangerine peel.
Exercise:
1. Wash dried lotus leaves, dried hawthorn, Coicis Semen and dried tangerine peel; Soak the dried tangerine peel until soft, and scrape off the white pulp;
2. Put the above materials into a pot, inject 4 bowls of water, bring to a boil with high fire, and turn to low heat for 30 minutes;
3. Add rock sugar and turn off the heat after the rock sugar melts.
Efficacy: Reduce fat and weight, regulate spleen and stomach, clear intestines and remove toxins, whiten skin and improve skin quality. It is suitable for people who are overloaded with stomach and want to lose weight and beauty.
Three-leaf tea
Ingredients: 5g of dried lotus leaves, 5g of lophatherum gracile leaves, 5g of dried mulberry leaves, 5g of fresh dandelion, 2g of dried Eucommia leaves, 2g of Lycium barbarum, 5g of lemon juice, 5g of honey and water 1500㏄.
Exercise:
1. After cleaning the materials, put them into the pot together with water, first boil them with strong fire, then simmer them with low fire 1 hour, then filter out all the materials and let them stand and cool.
2. Add lemon juice, honey and water to the cooled tea soup, stir well and pour into the cup.
Efficacy: Effectively eliminate edema problem, which is most suitable for puffiness and edema MM.
Chenpi lotus leaf tea
The efficacy of Chenpi lotus leaf tea can mainly treat phlegm-dampness obesity. The main manifestations of phlegm-dampness obesity are: I often feel phlegm in my throat when I get up early, I will get fat when I drink water, my body is heavy, my whole body is full of bad water, and the bad water is sticky, and my whole body easily feels sticky, like mud. The presence of blood lipids in bad water means high blood lipids. Under the skin, there is more fat. This obese person feels a heavy burden on his heart and loves to sleep! Phlegm-dampness type obesity has accumulated a lot of waste and garbage in the body, which cannot be discharged. At this time, drinking some tangerine peel and lotus leaf tea wine can be treated.
The effect of Chenpi lotus leaf tea is not only to lose weight, but also to relieve summer heat. Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae can strengthen the spleen and eliminate phlegm, and improve the phenomenon of heavy moisture and excessive phlegm in the throat. Lotus leaf tea is a commonly used Chinese medicine to lose weight. Chenpi lotus leaf tea is mainly the effect of Chenpi and lotus leaf. It is a kind of tea that is very helpful to the body. The commonly used tangerine peel and lotus leaf tea has many effects and functions in losing weight.
Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae and Folium Nelumbinis have the effects of clearing away heart fire, calming the liver, purging spleen, lowering lung, clearing away heat, nourishing heart, lowering blood pressure, inducing diuresis, astringing fluid, stopping sweating, stopping bleeding and fixing essence. "Lotus leaf slimming makes people thin and feel inferior", China has regarded lotus leaf tea as a slimming medicine since ancient times.
Chenpi lotus leaf tea is a kind of health tea with rich efficacy, but its efficacy is unique. Although it is not as immediate as medicine, it has no side effects.