Lotus
(Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.)

Tribe: Nymphaeaceae
Crude Name: Folium Nelumbinis (lotus leaf), Nelumbinis Cement (lotus seed).

Description
Beautiful water plants, native from mainland Asia. Lilies grown in ponds, sometimes grows wild in the swamp.
Grows erect, with spreading rhizomes and grow thick. Leaves and flowers come out directly from the rhizomes in the mud at the bottom of the pool. Leaf blade broadly rounded, 30-50 cm diameter, in the prop by a long stalk and a round diameter 0.5-1 cm, 75-150 cm stem length. Leaves out above the water surface. towering up like a shield. Waxy leaf surface, whitish-green, flat edge, the middle part slightly concave. Bone leaves spread from the center to the edge of the leaf. Fragrant flowers, grows rising above the water surface with a long round and sturdy stems that reach 75-200 cm. Round seeds like peanuts, fruit contained in a hole shaped like wasp nests. Old seeds blackish-green, was about one month after anthesis.

Nature and Usefulness
Lotus seed sweet taste, astringent, cool, entered the spleen and heart meridians. Efficacious to lower blood pressure, tonic for heart, spleen, and reproductive systems, tranquilizers, strengthen the spleen and stomach.
Lotus seed bud eliminate heat in the heart, relieve fever, stop bleeding, and prevent premature ejaculation.
Lotus seed coat is useful to stop bleeding, remove the heat in the stomach, and remove the hot and humid from the intestine.
Stamen taste sweet, astringent, and is cool. Relieve hot nutritious heart, strengthen kidney function, inhibits premature ejaculation, and stop the bleeding.
Basic interest is useful to destroy blood clots, stop the bleeding, and reject moisture.
Lotus stalks efficacious to lower blood pressure, fever relief, launched a pee.
Nutritious leaf clean up and eliminate damp heat, and stop the bleeding.
Basic nutritious leaves as reliever fever, and eliminate moisture, normalizing menstruation, pregnancy and strengthen.

Chemical content
Lotus containing isoquinoline, isoquinoline alkaloids including Benzyl-type (armepavine, n-methyl coclaurine), aporphine type (roemerine, nuciferine, n-nornuciferine, anonaine, liriodenine, asimilobine, lirinidin), proaphorpine type (prunuciferine), flavonoids (hyperoside, isoquercitrin, nelumboside, quercetin glucuronide, camphor glucuronide), tannins.

Portion used
All of the lotus plant efficacious drugs, such as rhizomes, leaves, stems, flowers, stamen, seeds, flowers buffer similar honeycomb / sponge and bean sprout. Use fresh ingredients or that have been dried.

How to Use
For drugs taken, boiled or in rhizome juice 240 g. boiled lotus seeds or chew shoots 1.5-3 g. Boil leaves, 5-12 g, 3-5 g stems, flowers, 3-5 g, 3-10 g stamen, receptacle 10-15 g.