Lotus leaf tea can be fresh lotus leaves dried and crushed, with hot water can be brewed. But the lotus leaf tea is generally not up to the therapeutic efficacy of the drug itself, should be taken under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner according to the internal decoction, lotus leaf charcoal, or into the pills, bulk and other methods.
Lotus leaf is a kind of Chinese medicine, for the water lily plant lotus dry leaves. It has the efficacy of clearing heat and relieving heatstroke, elevating Qing Yang (conveying nutrients from digested food to the head and face and other parts of the body), cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
It is useful in treating summer-heat and thirst, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, epistaxis (vomiting blood, nosebleed), and metrorrhagia (excessive menstrual flow or dribbling), etc. Charcoal of lotus leaf has the efficacy of astringency, elimination of blood stasis and stopping bleeding. It is mainly used in treating bleeding disorder and postpartum hematemesis. Its adverse reactions, contraindications and precautions are not clear at present.
Drinking lotus leaf in tea may result in insufficient release of the active ingredients, and it usually needs to be boiled correctly to realize the curative effect. Lotus leaf is used internally as decoction, lotus leaf charcoal, or in pills or powder; externally by pounding or washing with decoction.
Before taking this medicine, it should be used under the guidance of a Chinese doctor, and should not be purchased and used on its own to avoid delaying the condition.