Fresh lotus seed heart can be taken, but need to identify and treat, follow the doctor’s instructions to take.
Lotus heart is the dried young leaves and embryonic root of the mature seeds of lotus, which belongs to the heart and kidney meridians, and has the effects of clearing the heart and tranquilizing the mind, communicating with the heart and kidney (the fire of the heart descends, and the water of the kidney rises, which is in mutual control), astringing the essence and stopping bleeding.
Clinically, it can be used to treat symptoms such as heat entering the pericardium (heat evils invading the pericardium), delirium tremens (confusion, nonsense), failure of the heart and kidney to communicate with each other (heart fire, kidney yin deficiency, and dysfunction of the physiological functions of the heart and the kidneys), insomnia and spermatorrhea, and hematemesis and vomiting of blood. This product is bitter and cold in nature, and should be used with caution by people with cold spleen and stomach.
It should be noted that, Chinese medicine emphasizes the identification of drugs, so the selection and use of Chinese herbs is recommended under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner’s identification, generally not recommended to take drugs blindly, in order to prevent the harm brought about by the use of drugs.