The efficacy and function of fresh lotus seed is to consolidate the essence and stop the belt, nourish the spleen and stop diarrhea, benefit the kidney and nourish the heart; however, lotus seed is usually dried in the sun and then used in medicine, rather than fresh. If fresh lotus seeds are consumed as food, they generally do not achieve the medicinal value.
Lotus seed is mainly used to treat spleen deficiency and prolonged diarrhea, loss of appetite; lack of kidney qi, jingguan not solid (kidney deficiency, the kidney can not hide the essence) of spermatorrhea and spermatorrhea; or heart and kidneys do not communicate (the heart fire, kidney yin deficiency, the physiological dysfunction of the heart and kidneys) of the urine white cloudy (cloudy urine such as white slurry), dreaming of spermatorrhea and spermatorrhea, false annoyance (caused by the body of the heat of the annoyance) insomnia, and so on.
Note that lotus seed is forbidden to be taken by those who have fullness and distension in the middle and those who have dryness and knotting of stools.
If you need to use lotus seed to treat diseases, it must be used under the guidance of a professional doctor.