According to Compendium of Materia Medica, lotus, lotus seed, lotus coat, lotus room, lotus whisker, lotus plumule, lotus leaf, lotus stalk and lotus node can all be used as medicine. Lotus can promote blood circulation and stop bleeding, remove dampness and dispel wind, clear heart and cool blood, and relieve fever and detoxify. 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, stop bleeding and lose weight. Among them, the ingredients of Lotus Leaf Zhen 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 full of treasures. Lotus leaf, lotus whisker, lotus bud, lotus stalk, lotus plumule, lotus root and lotus festival can all be used as medicine, especially lotus leaf, which can be said to be an essential product for health preservation in summer.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lotus leaves are bitter in taste and flat in nature, and belong to the liver, spleen and stomach meridians, which have the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting hair growth and clearing yang, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Both fresh and dry products can be used as medicine, and are often used to treat various hemorrhagic diseases caused by summer heat, polydipsia, summer dampness diarrhea, spleen deficiency diarrhea and blood heat.
Production of lotus abalone;
Ingredients: abalone 350g, chicken150g.
Accessories: 75g pork (fat), 50g peas and 50g horseshoes.
Seasoning: egg white 100g, onion 30g, ginger 20g, salt 3g, monosodium glutamate 2g, pepper 2g, cooking wine 10g, lard 5g.
Characteristics of lotus abalone:
Abalone is tender and delicious, chicken is tender and refreshing, and pale yellow lotus is surrounded by white and green lotus, which looks like a blooming lotus.
lotus
Lotus belongs to the family Nelumbo, which is the general name of two plants of the genus Nelumbo. Also known as lotus, water hibiscus and so on. It is a perennial aquatic herb flower of lotus. Underground stems are long and thick, with long nodes and round leaves. Flowering from June to September, it is solitary at the top of the pedicel. There are many petals embedded in the receptacle hole, which are red, pink, white and purple, or have colored lines and edges. Nuts are oval and seeds are oval.
There are many kinds of lotus flowers, which are divided into ornamental and edible categories. China is native to tropical and temperate Asia and was planted as early as the Zhou Dynasty. Lotus is precious all over the body, lotus root and lotus seed are edible, and the germ of lotus seed, rhizome, lotus node, lotus leaf, flower and seed can be used as medicine. Its character of emerging from the mud without staining has always been praised by the world. "The next day, the lotus leaves are infinitely colorful, and the lotus flowers reflect different colors in the sun" is a true portrayal of the beauty of lotus flowers. The noble character of lotus flower "straight through the outside, not crawling, not stained with mud, clear but not demon" has always been one of the themes of poets' painting.
1985 in may, lotus was rated as one of the top ten flowers in China. Lotus is the national flower of India and Vietnam.
Naming:
Lotus, Hibiscus, Fantuo Pear, Shuizhi, Yunshui, Shui Mu, Zezhi, Huashui and Handan were called Handan by the ancients, namely, bud, hydrangea, hibiscus, Yuhuan, June Spring, China Lotus, June Flower God and so on.
First, named after the appearance: Lotus: Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica explains: "Lotus stems carry leaves, leaves carry flowers, hence the name." Hibiscus: Also known as Hibiscus. The Chinese dictionary Erya explains: "Lotus contains Pupu." Another book, Shuo Wen Jie Zi, said, "It's not lotus, it's hibiscus." Li Shizhen also said that the hibiscus flower means "to dress up brilliantly", so it is no wonder that Sima Xiangru, a writer in the Han Dynasty, compared his wife Zhuo Wenjun to the hibiscus flower of water.
2. Named after their growth habits: Shuizhi, Huashui, Yunshui, Shuidan, Shui Mu and Zezhi: Because lotus is a perennial aquatic plant, the ancients classified it as a kind of aquatic plant, and most of them were named after the word "water". Cao Zhi, a litterateur of the Three Kingdoms, praised "a hundred flowers blossom, and there is no flower soul" in the Lotus Fu, and compared the lotus to Ganoderma lucidum in the water.
Third, named after the holy and elegant temperament of lotus: Junzihua, Ling Boxian, Shuigongxian, Yuhuan, etc. According to "The Tale of the North Dream", Su Changyuan lived in Wuzhong (present-day Suzhou) during Tang Chaoyuan and his reign (806-820), met a pink-faced girl from plain clothes and gave him a jade ring. Soon, he found that there was a blooming lotus flower in the pool of his yard, and there was also a Yuhuan in the stamen, but it was "broken" and later generations called it Yuhuan.
Fourthly, in ancient Jiangnan customs, the 24th of June in the lunar calendar is the birthday of the lotus, so the lotus is nicknamed "June Flower God".
5. In order to express appreciation of the noble and pure form of lotus, Jin Furong and grass hibiscus are used to compare the rare nature of lotus.
Sixthly, Xike and Jingke emphasize the growth environment of lotus and the quiet and refined realm. Cui Qian is another name for Xinlian, Red is another name for Lotus Petals, Gonglian is another name for Lotus Petals, and Buddha must be another name for Lianrui.
morphological character
Lotus is a perennial aquatic herb; Rhizomes are transverse, hypertrophy, swollen internodes, with many longitudinal airways inside, constricted internodes, black scales at the top and hairy adventitious roots at the bottom.
The leaves are round and shield-shaped, with a diameter of 25-90 cm. The surface is dark green, covered with wax white powder, the back is gray-green, the whole edge is slightly wavy, the upper surface is smooth and white powder, and the lower vein is ejected from the center, with 1-2 branches. Petiole is stout, cylindrical, 1-2 meters long, hollow, with scattered thorns outside. Pedicels and petioles are the same length or slightly longer, and there are also scattered spines; Petiole cylindrical, densely barbed.
The flower is solitary at the top of the pedicel, above the water surface, with a diameter of 10-20 cm, beautiful and fragrant; There are single petal, compound petal, double petal and double terrace patterns; Colors are white, pink, crimson, lavender, yellow or intermediate colors; Lotus leaves are oblong-ovoid to obovate, 5- 10 cm long and 3-5 cm wide, gradually decreasing from outside to inside, sometimes becoming stamens, with blunt or slightly pointed apex and many stamens; The pistil is free and buried in the inverted cone sponge receptacle, and there are many scattered honeycomb holes on the receptacle surface. After fertilization, it gradually expands, called lotus, and a small nut (lotus seed) is born in each hole. Anthers are long, filaments are slender and inserted under receptacle; The style is very short, and the top of the column is born; The receptacle (lotus house) is 5- 10 cm in diameter.
Nuts are oval or ovoid, long 1.8-2.5 cm, and the fruits are leathery and hard, and dark brown when ripe; The seed (lotus seed) is ovoid or ovoid, with a length of 1.2- 1.7 cm and a red or white seed coat. The flowering period is from June to September, and it opens and closes every morning. Fruit-bearing period: August -65438+ 10. There are many cultivated varieties of lotus, which can be divided into three systems according to different uses: lotus root, lotus seed and Hualien. [4]?
Lotus is one of the oldest dicotyledonous plants, and also has some characteristics of monocotyledonous plants. The embryo of lotus is wrapped in scales, similar to monocotyledonous plants. From the flower structure, the lotus has three or four layers of perianth, sepal outer wheel, petal inner wheel, many stamens, free pistil and single channel boat-shaped pollen grains. Lotus stems have obvious segmentation phenomenon, and the underground stems are covered with fibrous roots. These are the characteristics of monocots. Lotus buds are mixed buds, and the lotus buds people see are the top buds of lotus root and the positions of axillary buds of each node. Roots are divided into seed roots and adventitious roots. The main root formed by seed radicle is underdeveloped, and the adventitious root plays a functional role. Lotus root, the stem of lotus, is the underground rhizome of lotus, which is an organ for storing nutrients and reproducing. Lotus is a solitary bisexual flower, which consists of calyx, corolla, stamen group, pistil group, receptacle and pedicel. Variety and rich colors. [5]?
Lotus is an aquatic flower that steals roots. Lotus root is the underground big stem of lotus, which grows horizontally in the mud. There are many holes of different sizes in the cross section of lotus root, which is the air cavity formed by lotus to adapt to life in water. This kind of air cavity can also be seen in petioles and pedicels. There are also many small ducts for transporting water on the stem, and the walls of the ducts are attached with thickened mucilage lignocellulose. It has a certain elasticity, and many white lotus roots appear when it is broken and stretched. Old lotus root has more silk than micro lotus root. The terminal bud of seed lotus root is called "lotus root", and it is covered with scales. After germination, white slender underground stems are drawn out, which is called "lotus root band". Lotus root band is segmented, and adventitious roots are surrounded by nodes. During festivals, leaves and flowers are drained. The new lotus root formed at the top of the lotus root belt is called the main lotus root. The vigorous lotus root has 4-7 lotus root tubes, each with a length of10-25cm and a diameter of about 6-12cm. The branch of the main lotus root is called the secondary lotus root; The young onion that grows again from the sub-lotus root is called Sun Lotus Root, which is often only 1 node. The size, shape, color, morning and evening, depth of mud, quality and flavor of lotus root vary from variety to variety, and are also affected by cultivation and conditions. [6]?
The lotus leaf is large, with a diameter of 70 cm, and the whole line is shield-shaped, 14-2 1 radial veins. The leaves are dark green and rough, covered with short and blunt thorns. There is a layer of waxy white powder between thorns, so rain can condense into rolling water drops. The back of the leaves is green, smooth and hairless, the veins are raised, and there is a cylindrical petiole in the center to clean and jerk the lotus leaves. There are dense spines on the stalk, the joint between the petiole and the underground stem is white, and the water and water are divided into green. There are three kinds of leaves: Mr. Ding Ya's leaves, small in shape and thin in handle, float on the water, called money leaves, or money leaves; The first leaves that grow from the lotus root are slightly larger and also float on the water, which is called floating leaves; Later, the leaves protruding from the lotus root were called vertical leaves. Whether it is money leaves, floating leaves or vertical leaves, they are all relatively rolled into tendons before they come out. The size, height and sequence of vertical leaves show obvious ascending and descending steps with the growth time. When the new lotus root is formed, the pulled upright leaves are larger than the previous one and have shorter spines, which are called "back leaves". A small leaf with a short stem and reddish back appears in front of it, which is called "terminal leaf". As long as people can identify the terminal leaves, they can find the location of new lotus roots in the mud. [6]?