Autumn white fruit is an excellent sleep aid

"Enjoy the lotus in summer, eat the lotus in autumn", after the summer, the lotus seeds on the lake mature.

As a common medicinal and food homologous product, lotus seeds ripen in autumn and become one of the most suitable ingredients for autumn supplementation.

"Medicine Sage" Li Shizhen called lotus seeds "the fruit of the spleen", which means that eating lotus seeds can nourish yang qi on the basis of healthy spleen soil, so it has a good autumn supplement effect.

Eating lotus seeds in autumn has many benefits

#1

Calm your mind

Chinese medicine believes that lotus seeds are sweet, astringent, flat, nourish the spleen and nourish the heart, and converge and calm the spirit.

For problems such as poor sleep quality caused by the humidity of early autumn, eating lotus seeds is a good choice.

Folk also have the saying that "if you don't have insomnia, cook porridge and add white lotus".

For insomnia, palpitations, and dreams of both heart and spleen deficiency, it can be paired with sour jujube kernels that are also of the same origin as medicine and food to nourish the heart and spleen, nourish the blood and calm the spirit.

For the poor sleep quality caused by heart-kidney incompatibility, it can be compatible with Yuanzhi to nourish the heart, benefit the kidneys, and communicate with the heart and kidneys.

For children with mild insomnia symptoms or poor sleep quality, lotus seeds alone can also be used:

Ingredients: 10 g of decoupled water lotus seeds, 10 g of lilies.

Directions: After the lotus seeds are simmered over low heat, add lilies and cook for 15 minutes, add a small amount of rock sugar to taste and serve warmly. Do not exceed 3 times a week.

Effect: Nourish the heart, calm the mind, moisturize.

Applicable age: 2 years old or older, good digestion, no pain.

#2

Spleen tonic and antidiarrheal

Lotus seeds are a good material for replenishing the spleen, and the Shennong Materia Medica believes that lotus seeds "mainly replenish the middle, nourish the gods, and benefit the qi." ”

In the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine, lotus seeds are often used to treat diseases such as diarrhea and belt down caused by spleen deficiency.

This is because its sweet taste can supplement the spleen, astringency can stop diarrhea, so it can be used for spleen deficiency for a long time, loss of appetite, as well as spleen deficiency under the belt, sperm and slippery sperm and other issues.

Therefore, in autumn, both men and women, the benefits of eating some lotus seeds are great.

In addition, unlike other ingredients that supplement the spleen, lotus seeds enter the spleen to nourish the qi and yin of the spleen.

In addition to the miraculous effect on spleen deficiency and long-term diarrhea, such as spleen deficiency and dry tongue, taste is not open, etc., summer problems can also be solved by lotus seeds.

The so-called essence of the five viscera are attributed to the use of the spleen, in the autumn, the lotus seed and the use of mustard fruit, can also supplement the liver and kidneys, solid kidney essence, for kidney disease caused by proteinuria also has a good therapeutic effect.

How to eat autumn lotus seeds?

Lotus seeds have been recognized as a good tonic for all ages since ancient times, and the Feast of Jia Fu described in "Dream of the Red Chamber" has "lotus meat" and "dried steamed lotus seeds", and "lotus seed soup" is the last pressing dish, which has the trend of "no lotus is not a mat".

Here are a few medicinal foods about lotus seeds:

1 lotus seed porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of lotus seeds, 100 grams of japonica or glutinous rice, salt to taste.

Directions: First wash the lotus seeds and rice separately, then put all the ingredients together in a pot and cook together, cook until the lotus seeds are extremely rotten, and finally add the right amount of salt to taste and enjoy.

Efficacy: It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the kidneys.

2 lotus lily pork rib soup

Ingredients: 500 grams of ribs, a little goji berries, 50 grams of lotus seeds and lilies.

Directions: Wash the ribs, chop them into pieces, blanch them in boiling water, remove the blood and set aside. Wash the lotus seeds and lilies together, remove the hearts of the lotus seeds, break the lilies into petals, and set aside. Simmer all the ingredients together in a pot until the ribs are completely cooked. Add the seasoning and goji berries before cooking.

Effects: Calms the mind, soothes the nerves, improves sleep, and replenishes qi.

3 Lotus Seed Eight Treasure Porridge

Ingredients: 200 g glutinous rice, 100 g lotus seeds, 50 g walnuts, 50 g dates, 25 g sunflower seeds (raw), 50 g raisins, 50 g plums.

Directions: Wash and core the lotus seeds; cut the plums into thin strips; soak the walnuts in warm water, peel off the outer coat and chop; pit the dates and cut into fine cubes. Glutinous rice is boiled with water to form a thin porridge, and then other raw materials are added and seasoned with sugar.

Effect: Strengthen the spleen and stomach, replenish the qi, and calm the spirit.

4 Rock sugar lotus seeds

Ingredients: 100 grams of lotus seeds, rock sugar to taste

Directions: Soak the lotus seeds in boiling water, peel and remove the heart, put them in a bowl, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar and water, and steam them in a basket.

Benefits: Porridge with lotus seeds.

5 ginseng lotus broth

Ingredients: 10 grams of white ginseng, 10 heartshoe lotus seeds, rock sugar to taste

Directions: White people participate in the removal of lotus seeds together in a small bowl and soak them in water. After that, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, steam for 1 hour, eat lotus meat, drink soup. Ginseng can be used 3 times and eaten at the end.

Efficacy: Used for weakness after illness, spleen deficiency and weight loss, waist and leg soreness, night sweats, diarrhea and so on.

6 Lotus seed drink

Ingredients: 30 lotus hearts, a pinch of salt

Directions: Decoct the lotus heart in water, add a little salt and take it before bedtime.

Effect: It has the function of nourishing the heart, calming the spirit and fixing the essence, and is suitable for upset, insomnia, dream remains, etc.

7 lotus seed powder soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of lotus seeds, 30 grams of longan meat, rock sugar to taste

Directions: Grind the lotus seeds into a paste, mix them into a paste with the longan meat, boil them in boiling water, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar when cooked, and take them every night before going to bed.

Efficacy: Used for heart sleep, kidney deficiency sperm, healthy people can increase appetite, kidney strength.

8 Steamed lotus seeds

Ingredients: 60 g of white lotus seeds.

Directions: Do not bother with the white lotus seeds, put them in a small bowl, add an appropriate amount of water, steam on the drawer for 1 hour and eat.

Efficacy: It can be used for sperm retention and slippery sperm, and the effect is remarkable.

9 Lotus seed sydney pear soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of fresh lotus seeds, 100 grams of sydney pears, 50 grams of yam, 5 dates, 25 grams of honey.

Directions: Peel and pit the lotus seeds, peel and pit the pears, peel and cut into small pieces, remove the dates, wash them into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, simmer over low heat until the lotus seeds, sydney pears, yams, and dates are ripe, add honey, and serve.

Effect: Moisturizing and drying, helping to transport in health.

10 Lotus lily silver ear porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of fresh lotus seeds, 50 grams of lilies, 30 grams of white fungus, 15 grams of goji berries, 100 grams of glutinous rice.

Method: Remove the core of the lotus seeds, peel and wash the lilies, soak the white fungus in cold water and tear it into small pieces, wash the glutinous rice and soak it for 15 minutes, put it into the pot together, add an appropriate amount of water, heat it to a low heat, boil until the lotus seeds, lilies, white fungus, glutinous rice are cooked and rotten, add goji berries, cook for a while.

Effect: Moisturize and nourish the lungs, purify the heart and calm the mind.

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It should be noted that because the lotus seeds are slightly astringent, people who often have a full abdomen and dry stools, and people with a cold constitution, avoid eating lotus seeds.