Lotus leaf has the efficacy of removing fire. Specifically, lotus leaf has the efficacy of clearing summer heat and removing dampness, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding (cooling and moisturizing the blood and preventing bleeding), and elevating the clear yang (conveying nutrients from digested food to the head and face and other parts of the body). Specific efficacy varies from person to person, and evidence-based treatment is recommended. Lotus leaf is used in medicine as the dried leaves of the lotus. Lotus leaf is bitter and flat in nature, and can enter the liver, spleen and stomach meridians. Clinically, it can be used for the treatment of blood-heat epistaxis (vomiting of blood and nosebleed due to blood-heat), summer-dampness diarrhea (diarrhea caused by summer-dampness), summer-heat irritable thirst and bleeding and leakage of blood in stools (excessive menstrual flow or dribbling) and other conditions. Lotus leaf is generally used as a decoction for internal use, and can also be used in pills and powder. It is also used to clear heat and cool blood (to relieve blood heat by clearing heat), while lotus leaf charcoal is used for astringency and stopping bleeding. The adverse reactions and contraindications of lotus leaf are not clear, and it is forbidden for those who are allergic to it. The above drugs need to be used under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner, avoid taking them on your own to avoid damage.