Dried lotus leaves, or the Chinese herbal medicine lotus leaves, are mainly used to treat summer summer dampness disease, vomiting blood, urinating blood, and disintegration (excessive menstrual flow or dribbling).
Lotus leaf is the leaf of lotus, an aquatic plant of the water lily family. Removing its impurities and drying it is the Chinese herbal medicine lotus leaf. Dried lotus leaves have a bitter, astringent flavor and are flat in nature. It has the effects of relieving summer heat and clearing heat, elevating Qing Yang (transporting nutrients from digested food to the head and face, etc.), and dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding (clearing stasis and stopping bleeding). Dried lotus leaves are used to treat heat stroke, summer dampness diarrhea (diarrhea caused by summer dampness), headache, dizziness, vomiting blood, hemoptysis, epistaxis, blood in stool, urinary blood, leakage of blood, and hyperlipidemia.
The adverse reactions and contraindications of dried lotus leaves are not clear at present. It should be noted that spicy, cold and stimulating food should be avoided during the period of taking Lotus leaf. If you need to use medication, you need to be guided by a doctor, do not use medication on your own, so as to avoid adverse consequences.