Any food does not simply have the function of losing weight, but achieves a certain weight loss effect by adjusting some aspects of the body.
Why do you get fat? Is it because of unhealthy eating habits or less exercise? Tea or some foods, such as oats, cucumbers, fungus and other foods with certain physical functions, are conducive to promoting weight loss.
But you can't simply rely on lotus leaf tea or some food to lose weight.
Eat less and exercise more, eat seven points full and exercise every week. The important thing is to persevere.
Details about lotus leaves are as follows:
First, the composition of lotus leaf
Lotus leaf contains many alkaloids such as brucine, imperatorin, nuciferine and vitamin C, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
Second, the dietotherapy function of lotus leaf
Lotus leaf tastes bitter, bitter, cool, warm in heart, liver and spleen, and delicious.
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.
China has regarded lotus leaf as a slimming medicine since ancient times. Because the root, (lotus root) and leaves of lotus have the functions of simple diuresis and laxative.
Third, the medicinal value of lotus leaf.
The medicinal properties of lotus leaf are the leaves of perennial aquatic herb lotus. Its chemical components mainly include nuciferine, citric acid, malic acid, gluconic acid, oxalic acid, succinic acid and other anti-mitotic alkaline components. Pharmacological research shows that lotus leaf has antipyretic, antibacterial and spasmolytic effects. The processed lotus leaf tastes bitter, slightly salty and pungent, and has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting diuresis and activating yang, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and has certain curative effects on various diseases.
Fourth, making full use of the weight-loss effect of lotus leaf tea requires small skills.
1. It must be strong tea, and the tea brewed for the second time has no effect, 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. A small bag of lotus leaf tea can be used to brew a teacup. Basically, you can brew 3-4 bags every day and drink them 3-4 times. People with signs of constipation can drink 4 packs in the first week 1 day, and finish them in 4 times. Smooth stool is more helpful to lose weight. It is best to drink on an empty stomach. Drink before meals.
There is no need to go on a diet, because after drinking for a period of time, the hobby of food will naturally change, and many people don't like to eat dirty and greasy food. In addition, lotus leaf tea need not be boiled. Put a bag of tea in a teapot or teacup, and pour boiling water to drink. It is best to stew for 5-6 minutes, so that the tea leaves will be thicker. Moreover, even if the tea is cold, the effect will not change, and it tastes better after being chilled in summer.