Everyone knows that lotus leaf tea is the best tea for cooling down and relieving summer heat, especially when consumed in the summer. Not only can it prevent heatstroke, but it can also help with weight loss. Let's take a look at the methods for using lotus leaf tea for weight loss!
Can Lotus Leaf Tea Help with Weight Loss?
Lotus leaf is the leaf of the perennial aquatic herb lotus, and its chemical components mainly include lotus alkaloids, citric acid, malic acid, tartaric acid, oxalic acid, succinic acid, and other alkaline components that have anti-mitotic effects.
The infusion and decoction of lotus leaf can dilate blood vessels, cool down and relieve heat, and have a blood pressure-lowering effect. It is also a good remedy for weight loss.
As a health tea, lotus leaf tea may not have immediate effects like medication, but it has no side effects. It is the ideal choice for people with "three highs" (high blood pressure, high blood lipids, high cholesterol), middle-aged and elderly friends, and ladies who want to maintain a slim figure.
Lotus leaf tea has significant effects on people with edema-type obesity, constipation-type obesity, and people with a high proportion of body fat and loose muscles.
How to Make Lotus Leaf Tea
Chenpi Lotus Leaf Tea
Ingredients: 500g chenpi (dried tangerine peel), 100 fresh lotus leaves, 1000g raw coix seeds, 1000g hawthorn berries.
Preparation: Wash the fresh lotus leaves collected in summer, cut them into shreds, and let them air dry. Grind the chenpi, hawthorn berries, and coix seeds into fine powder, mix them with the lotus leaves, divide them into 100 bags, and brew one bag with boiling water every day for 100 consecutive days.
Hawthorn Lotus Leaf Tea
Ingredients: 5g hawthorn berries, 3g lotus leaves, 2-3 red dates.
Preparation: Boil 500ml of water, add all the ingredients, and boil for about 5 minutes. Then, strain and drink. This tea can help reduce body fat, invigorate the spleen, lower blood pressure, and clear the mind. It can also prevent obesity, hypertension, atherosclerosis, and other diseases. Adding red dates can make the tea milder and more enjoyable because consuming too many hawthorn berries can irritate the stomach.
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