According to ancient and modern medical (food) theories such as Suixiju Diet Spectrum and China Medicinal Tea Formula, lotus plumule and lotus leaf have the effects of clearing away heart-fire, calming liver, purging spleen and lowering lung, clearing heat and nourishing heart, lowering blood pressure and diuresis, astringing fluid to stop sweating, stopping bleeding and fixing essence. Lotus leaves lose weight, which makes people thin and feel inferior? China has regarded lotus leaf as a slimming medicine since ancient times. In hospitals, obese patients are still allowed to drink lotus leaf tea.
Honghu lotus leaf tea is made from fresh wild lotus leaves in Honghu Lake in early summer, and refined by advanced technologies such as selection, shaping, deactivation, rolling, drying and flavoring. Fully retains the effective components (various alkaloids) of lotus leaf, giving people a fresh and natural feeling. This soup is beautiful in color, elegant in lotus fragrance and mellow in taste, which makes it a upstart in tea!
Today, I will focus on the influence of the ingredients in Honghu lotus leaf tea on human body.
Lotus leaf is edible and medicinal, and it is a plant that people like to use to process meals and delicacies on the table since ancient times in China.
As a cooking material, taking its fragrance can improve the taste and relieve boredom. It is often used to roast or wrap vegetables, such as lotus leaf rice.
Steamed pork with lotus leaf powder is a special famous dish. It is steamed with fresh lotus leaves, fried rice noodles and seasoned pork. It is fragrant, fresh, fat, soft, waxy and not greasy, which is very suitable for summer appetite.
Lotus leaf, as a traditional Chinese medicine, has a long history and is widely used in medicine.
In terms of medical care, lotus leaf has the following functions: reducing weight, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipid, relieving summer heat, promoting diuresis, strengthening spleen, strengthening yang, removing blood stasis, stopping bleeding, clearing heat, treating diarrhea, preventing cardiovascular diseases, inhibiting bacteria, clearing heat and polydipsia by heart meridian, cooling blood to stop bleeding, promoting hair and clearing yang, eliminating summer heat and promoting diuresis by lung meridian, spleen meridian, liver meridian and so on.
Honghu lotus leaf tea is made from wild fresh lotus leaves in Honghu Lake in early summer, and its components have many effects on human body. The plant active factors in lotus leaf tea mainly include nuciferine, citric acid, malic acid, gluconic acid, oxalic acid and succinic acid, which have strong antibacterial effect. Pharmacological research shows that lotus leaf has antipyretic, antibacterial and spasmolytic effects. Lotus root can dilate blood vessels, clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and has the effect of lowering blood pressure.
Lotus leaf is a kind of food for both medicine and food. Lotus leaf tea is rich in flavonoids and is a scavenger of most oxygen free radicals. It can increase the activity of SOD (superoxide dismutase), reduce the production of MDA (lipid peroxide malondialdehyde) and X-LDL (oxidized low density lipoprotein), increase the coronary flow, and has an antagonistic effect on experimental myocardial infarction. It has protective effect on acute myocardial ischemia; Has obvious effect on treating coronary heart disease and hypertension. It also plays an important role in reducing diastolic blood pressure, preventing and treating arrhythmia and cardiovascular diseases.
Chlorophyll in lotus leaf tea (by the way, the water temperature for brewing lotus leaf tea should be 80 degrees to avoid completely destroying chlorophyll)
The function of chlorophyll is very important and indispensable for us human beings.
(1) Hematopoiety: Chlorophyll is rich in trace element iron and is a natural raw material for hematopoiesis. Without chlorophyll, blood can't be produced continuously, and people will have anemia.
(2) Providing vitamins: Chlorophyll contains a lot of vitamin C and inorganic salts, which is an indispensable substance in human life activities, and can also maintain the weak alkalinity of body fluids, which is beneficial to health.
(3) Maintaining the activity of enzyme: Chlorophyll plays an important role in the production and maintenance of enzyme activity. The combination of chlorophyll and enzyme is the continuation of life.
(4) Detoxification: Chlorophyll is the best natural antidote, which can prevent infection, prevent inflammation from spreading and relieve pain. As long as you drink more vegetable juice containing chlorophyll, you can make the bad breath, sweat, urine and feces smell emitted by your mouth, nose and body disappear.
(5) Resisting diseases and strengthening the body: Chlorophyll also has many functions of improving the body, eliminating diseases and strengthening the body. If it can enhance the body's tolerance; It also has the functions of anti-aging, anti-cancer and preventing gene mutation, and is the guardian of human health.
Studies have proved that chlorophyll is a unique component in plants, and other organisms do not contain chlorophyll. So other creatures, such as animals, can't synthesize enough energy for their own consumption and utilization, but can only get it from nature, and plants can supply energy by themselves.
Benzylquinoline alkaloids and flavonoid glycosides in lotus leaf tea have anti-HIV activity, so they can inhibit virus proliferation and resist cell infection. The liensinine in tea has significant anti-polio activity in vitro.
Lotus leaf tea has diuretic and laxative effects. Lotus leaf tea can dilate blood vessels, clear away heat and relieve summer heat, lower blood pressure, and is also a good tea for losing weight. Lotus leaf tea can also significantly reduce the contents of triglyceride and cholesterol in serum, and has the health care function of regulating blood lipid. Therefore, drinking this kind of tea often can reduce blood fat, blood pressure and lose weight.
Alkaloids in lotus leaf tea have the function of reducing blood lipid and are often used to treat obesity in clinic. The weight loss principle of lotus leaf is to form a layer of fat isolation film on the human intestinal wall after taking it, which can effectively prevent the absorption of fat, lose weight fundamentally and control the rebound more effectively.
Lotus leaf tea is non-medicinal, although it is not as immediate as medicine, it has no side effects. For the "three highs", that is, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and high cholesterol, people who lose weight may wish to drink more lotus leaf tea.
After processing, lotus leaf tea 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 many diseases. Clearing heat and promoting diuresis, promoting hair growth and activating yang, and stopping bleeding. It can be used for treating diarrhea due to summer dampness, dizziness, edema due to water vapor, thunderstorm, hematemesis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, hematochezia and postpartum hematemesis. Heart, liver and spleen meridians; The fragrance rises and falls; It has the effects of dispelling summer heat, promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen, strengthening yang, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and can be used for treating summer heat, polydipsia, headache, dizziness, edema, anorexia, abdominal distension, diarrhea, leucorrhea, proctoptosis, hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, postpartum lochia and blood stasis.
Although lotus leaf tea is peaceful, the lotus leaf is relatively cold, indicating that people who are usually afraid of cold should pay attention when eating it. You can put a few pieces of dried hawthorn together when brewing. In addition, lotus leaf tea has hemostatic effect, so it is not suitable for drinking during menstruation. Lotus leaf tea cannot be drunk with poria cocos. Lotus leaf tea is also afraid of silverware and tung oil (tung oil is contained in the paint), so the lotus leaf should be put in a glass jar instead of a cupboard.
Side effects of inferior lotus leaf tea
Individual lotus leaf tea products may be unclean and contain impurities. This phenomenon is due to the fact that some places use harvesters to pick lotus leaves in a large area, which leads to extremely dirty lotus leaves. Some pharmacies and supermarkets are like this kind of lotus leaf, and people feel sick after drinking this kind of lotus leaf tea.
Lotus leaf tea may contain pesticides.
At present, the south is the high-yield place of lotus leaf tea, and 98% of lotus leaf tea comes from the south. The planting area of lotus leaves in south China is very huge, and the water quality is poor. People usually spray pesticides to prevent pests. Therefore, individual lotus leaf teas may contain pesticide residues.
Lotus leaf tea may contain chemical fertilizer.
Some lotus leaf teas in the south are often sprayed with chemical fertilizers to increase production. This kind of lotus leaf tea containing chemical fertilizer naturally has no weight loss effect, but drinking too much is not good for the human body.
So we drink tea with assured tea, and we can drink Honghu lotus leaf tea if we want.