Lotus fruit is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine and a rare ingredient that is not commonly seen. It looks strange, but it has the effects of promoting bowel movements and relieving coughs when used medicinally. As a food ingredient, stewed lotus fruit with pig's trotters has the effect of treating insufficient breast milk in postpartum women. Let's take a look at the recipe for stewed lotus fruit with pig's trotters!
【Name】
Stewed Lotus Fruit with Pig's Trotters
【Recipe】
Wash the pig's trotters and blanch them in boiling water for a while, then remove and clean them. Wash 4 lotus fruits. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, add the pig's trotters and bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat until cooked.
Add cooking wine, salt, spring onion, and ginger and simmer until the flavors are absorbed. Add the lotus fruits and continue cooking until the pig's trotters are tender. Add monosodium glutamate, remove from heat, and serve.
【Effects】
Stewed lotus fruit with pig's trotters is a highly effective folk remedy used in China to treat insufficient breast milk in postpartum women.
【Effects and Functions of Lotus Fruit】
Chinese medicine believes that lotus fruit has the effects of promoting bowel movements and relieving coughs, mainly used for damp-heat constipation and coughing in the elderly.
"The Medicinal Plants of Tianmu Mountain": "Treats damp-heat constipation and dry cough in the elderly."
Treatment for damp-heat constipation: Take about 1 liang of lotus fruit (or root bark, tree bark). Decoct and mix with white sugar, take before breakfast and dinner.
Treatment for dry cough in the elderly: Take about 4 to 5 qian of lotus fruit. Decoct and drink instead of tea.
【Indications of Lotus Fruit as a Food Ingredient】
1. Nocturnal emission: Take lotus (fried) and white radix achyranthis bidentatae, grind into powder, take 2 qian per dose, mix with rice soup and take.
2. Enlarged kidney cyst: Burn lotus fruit to charcoal, grind into powder, take 2 qian with wine. Another recipe: Lotus fruit, cumin, grind into powder in equal amounts. Take 2 qian per dose on an empty stomach, take with wine.
3. Bloody stools: Burn lotus fruit (or fry), fry Fructus Aurantii Immaturus (fried) in equal amounts, grind into powder. Take 2 qian per dose, take with sophora flower wine. Another recipe: Use lotus fruit, palm tree bark, burn to charcoal, add black plum (seedless), roasted grass (baked) in equal amounts, grind into powder. Take 2 qian each time, boil with a bowl of water and take.
4. Prolapse of the anus: Take lotus fruit with skin and seeds, cut into small pieces, fry them, add poria cocos, poria cocos, grind into powder in equal amounts. Take 2 qian per dose, take with rice soup. This recipe is called "Xiao Yang Dan" and can also be used to treat nocturnal emission.
5. Early-stage carbuncle and furuncle: Take 49 lotus fruits, remove the hair, grind into a fine powder, mix with wine and drink when warm. Its effect is similar to honeysuckle.
6. Insufficient breast milk: Take 2 lotus fruits and 1 pig's fore trotter, cook until soft and drink the juice. Breast milk will be produced after one day.
7. Hematuria: Take a handful of lotus leaves and 1 part licorice (roasted), simmer and drink a small amount daily.
8. Vitiligo, scabies, etc.: Apply lotus vine juice topically.
