Now it's getting more and more troublesome to cook for myself. I don't know what to eat every day. Let the editor of the Traditional Chinese Medicine website help you! The lotus node is the connecting part of the lotus, containing compounds such as gentianin and tannins, and has 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, dried lotus node, is short and cylindrical, about 2-4 centimeters long and about 2 centimeters in diameter. The surface is yellow-brown to gray-brown, with a slightly swollen central node, with many residual root hairs and root marks, and sometimes dark reddish-brown scale leaf remnants can be seen; the surface of the residual internode at both ends of the node has longitudinal stripes, and small round holes can be seen in the cross-sectional center, with about 8 large holes around it. The body is light, the node is hard and difficult to break. It is odorless, slightly bitter and astringent. The ideal lotus node is black-brown in the node part, white at both ends, dry, and without root hairs or 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 in taste, neutral in nature, non-toxic."
④"Gang Mu Shi Yi": "Lotus node powder: slightly bitter in taste, neutral in nature."
Meridian: "Ben Cao Cuo Yao": "Enters the Lesser Yin, Yangming of the Foot, and Jueyin meridians."
Functions and indications: Hemostasis, dispelling blood stasis. Used for treating coughing blood, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, urinary blood, bloody stools, bloody dysentery, and uterine bleeding.
①"Yao Xing Lun": "Decoction, used to treat unrestrained vomiting of blood, can be used for both the mouth and nose."
②"Ri Hua Zi Ben Cao": "Clears heat and toxins, eliminates blood stasis, relieves postpartum blood stagnation. Combines with processed Rehmannia root, mix with hot wine and drink with urine."
③"Dian Nan Ben Cao": "Treats women's uterine bleeding, cold turbidity."
④"Gang Mu": "Can stop coughing blood, spit blood, blood strangury, blood in urine, blood in stools, uterine bleeding."
⑤"Gang Mu Shi Yi": "Lotus node powder: opens the chest, nourishes the waist and kidneys, harmonizes blood vessels, dispels blood stasis, promotes the production of new blood; especially suitable for postpartum and those who vomit blood."
⑥"Ben Cao Zai Xin": "Cool blood, nourish blood, promote water circulation and regulate menstruation."
Dosage and administration: Oral administration: decoction, 3-5 qian (9-15 grams); crushed into juice or used in powdered form.
