[Source: Zhejiang Women]
The hot weather in summer often makes people feel irritated, and according to the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, summer is the time to nourish the heart. The lotus seed enters the Heart Sutra, which has the effect of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves.
Lotus seeds are also known as lotus seeds, lotus seeds, and lotus seeds. Sweet, astringent, flat, return to the spleen, kidneys, heart meridians.
Brain workers, in the summer can eat more lotus seeds.
Use 30 grams of lotus seeds, add 30 grams of lean meat, stew. It can nourish the mind and calm the nerves, enhance memory, and improve work efficiency.
Or use 30 grams of lotus seeds, 30 grams of lily, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, and stew water for drinking. Lily lotus seed porridge can be said to be one of the best choices for women's health at this time.
Lily calms the mind and removes annoyance; Lotus seeds clear the heart and spleen, calm the nerves and stop diarrhea; Rock sugar to remove fire and moisten the lungs. These three flavors are both medicinal materials and ingredients, and they are effective, so health recipes are more favored.
Should lotus seeds be eaten with heart?
If the lotus heart is removed, will the nutritional value of the lotus seed decrease? The answer is no. Because lotus seed heart and lotus seed meat can be used as two flavors of Chinese herbal medicine separately, each has different effects.
Lotus seeds have the effect of tonifying the spleen, stopping diarrhea and stopping the belt, benefiting the kidneys and astringent essence, nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. The lotus heart is biased towards purifying the heart, reducing fire, and eliminating heat and trouble.
Usually, when eating lotus seeds, you can choose whether to keep the lotus heart according to your personal physical needs.
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1. If you are a person with a peaceful constitution or who has always been hot, it is inevitable that there will be some manifestations of excessive fire in the middle of summer, such as often feeling very irritable, always having long mouth ulcers, and difficulty falling asleep at night, etc., then you can choose to eat lotus seeds, or even use lotus hearts to make tea alone.
2. If you usually have poor sleep quality, upset and irritable mood, you can drink lotus heart poria medicinal tea. Take 2g of lotus heart, 2g of poria cocos, and 2g of fried jujube kernels, put them in a cup and soak them, and you can add water frequently to brew them many times.
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1. Due to the bitter taste and cold nature of lotus heart, people with spleen and stomach deficiency are not suitable for eating, and the lotus heart should be removed to prevent bitter cold from hurting the spleen and stomach. If you accidentally eat too much lotus heart, it will cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc., and some people often mistakenly think that this is a reaction caused by the "poison" of lotus heart.
2. Pregnant women are not suitable for eating too much cold food, and patients with low blood pressure are not suitable for eating lotus hearts. The lotus heart crystal extracted from the lotus heart has a certain antihypertensive effect, excessive consumption may cause low blood pressure, dizziness, black eyes, soft limbs, cold sweat, palpitations, oliguria and other uncomfortable symptoms.
Source: Health China, China Traditional Chinese Medicine News
Editor/Song Sishi
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