Lotus leaf water has the effect of cooling the blood to stop bleeding, clearing summer heat and dampness, and promoting the development of Qing-Yang (conveying the nutrients from digested food to the head and face), which can be used to treat summer-heat and thirst, summer-dampness diarrhea, diarrhea due to deficiency of the spleen, and epistaxis due to blood-heat (blood-heat causing vomiting of blood and nosebleed) and other illnesses.
Lotus leaf is the dried leaf of Lotus japonicus of the Water Lily family, bitter in taste and flat in nature, belonging to the meridians of liver, spleen and stomach, with the efficacy of cooling the blood, stopping bleeding, clearing summer heat and removing dampness, and elevating the clear yang, and can be used in the treatment of summer-heat irritability and thirst, summer-dampness and diarrhea, diarrhea due to deficiency of the spleen, epistaxis (vomiting blood due to blood-heat, nosebleed). Its adverse effects and contraindications are not clear.
Water with lotus leaves can also have the effect of cooling blood, clearing summer dampness and promoting the development of Qing Yang, but the effect of water is limited and can only play a certain role in the treatment of the above diseases, and cannot replace the therapeutic effect of drugs.
If you need to use lotus leaf, please under the guidance of a professional physician to identify the evidence, do not self-medication, so as not to affect the health of the body.