Lotus leaf has the efficacy of clearing summer heat and dampness, elevating Qing Yang (conveying the nutrients from digested food to the head and face), cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and can be used for summer-heat and thirst, summer-dampness and diarrhea, diarrhea due to deficiency of the spleen, blood-heat and epistaxis (due to blood-heat and vomiting of blood and nosebleed), blood in the stool and leakage of blood (menstrual bleeding in excessive amount or more than a few drops), etc. It is bitter in taste and flat in nature.
Lotus leaf is the dried leaf of Lotus japonicus of the Water Lily family. It is bitter in taste and flat in nature, and belongs to the liver, spleen and stomach meridians, with the effects of clearing summer heat and removing dampness, elevating the clear yang, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding. Lotus leaf can be used for summer heat and thirst, summer dampness and diarrhea, spleen deficiency and diarrhea, blood heat and epistaxis, blood in stool and leakage.
In addition, lotus leaf fried charcoal can stop bleeding, remove blood stasis and astringency, and is often used in postpartum hematemesis and hemorrhagic syndrome.
The adverse effects and contraindications of Lotus leaf are not clear.
It should be noted that the use of Chinese herbs should be under the guidance of a professional physician, and if there is any physical discomfort, it is recommended to go to a regular medical institution in time, so as to avoid delaying the condition.