Children who exist indications can eat lotus seed, lotus seed as a medicinal herb should be used in accordance with medical advice.
Lotus seed is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine with sweet and flat nature. It belongs to the kidney meridian, spleen meridian and heart meridian. It can be used for spleen deficiency and diarrhea, insomnia and palpitations, spermatorrhea, and bandicoot. It has the effect of tonifying the spleen, stopping diarrhea, astringent essence and kidney, nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind.
Lotus seed for spleen deficiency is often used with Poria and Atractylodes macrocephala. It can be used together with yam, cornelian cherry, and fructus schisandrae to treat deficiency of spleen and kidney. The treatment of loss of appetite, spleen deficiency and diarrhea is often used in conjunction with Poria, Codonopsis, Atractylodes macrocephala. It is often used with Poria, Jujube Seed and Yuan Zhi to treat palpitations of the heart and kidneys (heart fire, kidney yin deficiency, dysfunction of the heart and kidneys).
Lotus seed is forbidden to be taken by those who have fullness and distension (stomach and epigastric plagued and stuffy), and those who have dry and knotty stools, and children do not belong to the contraindication group of lotus seed, so those who have the above indications can take it under the guidance of doctors.
Chinese medicine should be used under the guidance of a professional physician, do not take medication without authorization, in order to avoid adverse consequences.