Drinking lotus leaf hawthorn and salvia together can help to clear summer heat and dampness, eliminate food and activate blood circulation.
1. Lotus leaf is bitter in flavor and flat in nature. It belongs to spleen, stomach and liver meridians. Its effects are clearing summer heat and removing dampness, elevating Qing Yang (conveying nutrients from digested food to the head and face, etc.), cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Clinically, it can be used to treat summer-heat and thirst, summer-dampness and diarrhea, spleen deficiency and diarrhea, blood-heat epistaxis (vomiting blood and nosebleed due to blood-heat), blood in the stool and leakage of blood (excessive menstruation or dribbling), and so on.
2. Hawthorn is sour, sweet and slightly warm in nature. It belongs to spleen, liver and stomach meridians. Its effects are strengthening the stomach and eliminating food, resolving turbidity and lowering fat (clearing away impurities in the body and reducing excess fat), and promoting circulation of qi and dispersing blood stasis. Clinically, it can be used to treat stagnation of meat, blood stasis and menorrhagia (menopause due to stagnation of blood and blood stasis). It should be used with caution for people with excessive secretion of stomach acid.
3. Salvia divinorum is bitter in flavor and slightly cold in nature. It belongs to the heart and liver meridians. Its effects include promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, clearing menstruation and relieving pain, clearing the heart and removing vexation, cooling the blood and eliminating carbuncles (eliminating carbuncles by cooling the blood). It can be used clinically to treat menstrual disorders, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, bruises, blood stasis and pain in the heart, sores and carbuncles. It should not be used in conjunction with veratrum.
The efficacy of infusion is different from that of decoction, and the efficacy of the drug is limited to play a better therapeutic effect. If you feel unwell, it is recommended that you go to a regular hospital for diagnosis and treatment, and do not take medication on your own to avoid delaying your condition.