The effects of Lotus Leaf Water are clearing summer heat and dampness (removing summer and dampness), cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is mostly used for summer-heat and thirst, summer-dampness and diarrhea, and blood-heat and vomiting.
Lotus leaf belongs to the liver, spleen and stomach meridians. It is bitter in taste and flat in nature. Its effects include clearing summer heat and dampness, elevating Qing Yang (conveying nutrients from digested food to the head and face), cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
It is used clinically for treating summer-heat and thirst, summer-dampness diarrhea, diarrhea due to deficiency of the spleen, epistaxis (vomiting of blood and nosebleed due to blood-heat), and menstrual bleeding and leakage (excessive menstruation or more than a few drops). Lotus leaf charcoal is astringent (convergent and astringent), which can remove blood stasis and stop bleeding, and is used in bleeding disorder and postpartum hematemesis.
It should be noted that the efficacy of Lotus Leaf Water is limited and it is recommended to use it together with other medicines under medical supervision. It is contraindicated in cases of deficiency and upper burner evil (high fever, irritability, dizziness and headache).