Nowadays, cooking has become more and more troublesome. We don't know what to eat every day. Let the editor of Chinese Medicine and Chinese Medicine help you! The lotus node is the connecting part of the lotus, containing compounds such as diosgenin and tannins, and has a high medicinal value. The lotus node and the lotus are similar in taste and function, but the lotus node focuses more on its hemostatic effect.
The medicinal material is dried lotus node, which is short and cylindrical, about 2-4 centimeters long and about 2 centimeters in diameter. The surface is yellowish-brown to grayish-brown, and the central node is slightly swollen, with residual root whiskers and root marks, and sometimes dark reddish-brown scale leaf remnants can be seen; the surface of the residual inter-nodal part at both ends of the node has longitudinal stripes, and the central part of the cross section can be seen Small round holes with about 8 large holes around it. Light in weight, the node is hard and difficult to break. It has no odor and tastes slightly bitter and astringent. The best lotus node is black-brown in the node, white at both ends, dried, and free of root whiskers and soil.
Taste: Bitter and astringent, neutral.
① "Ri Hua Zi Ben Cao": "Cold."
② "Gang Mu": "Astringent, neutral, non-toxic."
③ "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "Bitter and astringent taste, neutral in nature, non-toxic."
④ "Gang Mu Shi Yi": "Lotus node powder: slightly bitter taste, neutral in nature."
According to "Ben Cao Cuo Yao": "Enters the Hand Shaoyin, Foot Yangming, and Jueyin meridians."
Functions and indications: Hemostasis, promoting blood circulation. Used for treating hemoptysis, vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematuria, bloody stool, dysentery, and hemorrhage.
① "Yao Xing Lun": "Pounding the juice can stop bleeding, and it can be used to treat bleeding from the mouth and nose."
② "Ri Hua Zi Ben Cao": "Resolves heat toxicity, dissipates blood stasis, and relieves postpartum blood stagnation. Combine with Rehmanniae Radix and grind into juice, mix with hot wine, and take with urine."
③ "Dian Nan Ben Cao": "Treats uterine bleeding and turbid discharge in women."
④ "Gang Mu": "Can stop coughing up blood, spitting blood, hematuria, defecating blood, dysentery, and hemorrhage."
⑤ "Gang Mu Shi Yi": "Lotus node powder: Opens the chest, nourishes the waist and kidneys, harmonizes blood vessels, disperses blood stasis, generates new blood; especially beneficial for postpartum and blood vomiting patients."
⑥ "Ben Cao Zai Xin": "Cooling blood and nourishing blood, diuretic and promoting menstruation."
Dosage and administration: Oral administration: Decoct 3-5 qian (about 9-15 grams), pound into juice, or use in powdered form.
