Sunday, February 12, 2012

Benefits of The Beautiful Lotus


Lotus (Nymphaea) is beautiful water plants, native from Asia. As a medicinal plants, Lotus grows in water and ponds, sometimes living wild in the swamps. Thick scaly rhizomes, growing creeper. Leaves and flowers come out directly from the rhizome attached to the mud at the bottom of the pool. Wide and rounded leaf blade, supported by a long stalk and spherical diameter from 0.5 to 1 cm, 75-150 cm in length. Leaves poking above the water, towering up like a shield. Waxy leaf surface; whitish green color, flat edge, the center slightly hollowed, the bones scattered leaves from the center toward the edges of the leaves, 30-50 cm diameter. The flowers are fragrant, grows towering above the water surface with a long round and sturdy stems, 75-200 cm long flower stalks. 15-25 cm diameter flowers, stamens many yellow anthers, petals wide, there is an ankle and there is a double with pink, white and yellow. Flowers bloom all day from morning till evening. After wilting petals fall until finally left the base interest rate will be going to pieces, shaped like inverted cones with a flat surface and a kind of sponge with holes containing 15-30 seeds, the color is yellowish green, then green and finally dark brown, the center line of 6 -11 cm. Seeds are round like a peanut, found in fruit pits shaped like a wasp nest. Old seeds blackish green color, age approximately 1 month after flowers bloom. The leaves are commonly used as packing materials, young rhizomes and seeds are edible. Buddhists regard this flower as a symbol of purity, which in describing the paintings and statues of the Buddha sat meditating on a lotus flower.

Nutrient Content :
Flowers : Quercetin, luteolin, isoquercitrin, kaempferol.
Stamen : Quercetin, luteolin, isoquercitrin, galuteolin, alkaloids.
Rate buffer (reseptacle): Protein, fat, carbohydrates, carotene, nicotinic acid, vitamin B1, B2, C and low in nelumbine.
Seeds : Raffinosa starch-containing, protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus and iron. Nuciferine contain lotus seed, oxoushinsunine, N-norarmepavine. Lotus seed sprouts: Liensinine, isoliensinine, neferine, nuciferine, pronuciferine, lotusine, methylcorypalline, demethylcoclaurine, galuteolin, hyperin, rutin.
Oxoushinsunine contained on the lotus seeds skin efficacious suppress the development of cancer of the nose and throat, while the stalks of lotus seeds and efficacious anti-hypertensive.
Rhizome : Starch, protein, asparagine, vitamin C. It also contains catechol, d-gallocatechol, neochlorogenic acid, leucocyanidin, leucodelphinidin, peroxidase, etc..
Root : tannic substances and asparagine.
Leaves : Roemerine, nuciferine, nornuciferine, armepavine, pronuciferine, N-nornuciferine, DN-methylcoclaurine, anonaine, liriodenine, quercetin, isoquercitrin, nelumboside, citric acid, tartaric acid, malic acid, gluconic acid, oxalic acid, succinic acid, tannic substances , etc.. Lotus leaf base: Roemerine, nuciferine and nornuciferine.Roemerine, nornuciferine, resins and tannic substances.
Lotus benefits :
Seeds:
- Impaired absorption of food (malabsorbtion).
- Diarrhea for lernah bodies, chronic inflammatory bowel disease (chronic enteritis).
- Dysentery.
- Vomiting.
- Vaginal discharge, bleeding in women.
- Painful urination and cloudy.
- Flagging is not excited (neurasthenia).
- Cancer nasopharynx.
Lotus seed sprouts:
- Fever, thirst.
- Heart palpitations, anxiety.
- Vomiting of blood.
- Premature ejaculation.
- Eyes red and swollen.
- Insomnia.
- Hypertension.
Stamens:
- Sperrnatorrhea.
- Vaginal discharge (leucorrhea).
- Bleeding such as vomiting blood, dysentery.
- Frequent urination.
- Unable to hold urine (enuresis).
Remptacle:
- Excessive uterine bleeding.
- Excessive menstrual blood.
- Bleeding during pregnancy.
- Discharge (lochia) is excessive.
- Lower abdominal pain due to blood clots.
- Dysentery, blood urine.
- Hemorrhoids.
Rhizome:
- Fever, thirst.
- Coughing up blood, vomiting blood, nosebleeds.
- Dysentery, blood urine. High blood pressure.
- Heart disease.
- Disorders of the stomach.
- Lack of blood (anemia).
- Disorders of the menopause (menopause).
- Neurosis.
Root:
- Vomiting blood, nosebleeds.
- Urinary and red hot.
- Coughing up blood, dysentery.
Leaves:
- Fainting due to heat (heat stroke).
- Diarrhea due to heat or moisture.
- Dizziness, headache.
- Bleeding such as nosebleeds, vomiting blood, blood dysentery.
- Bleeding in women.
Leaf base:
- Bloody dysentery, diarrhea.
- Babies in the womb is not quiet.
Flower:
- Trauma.
- Bleeding.
- Inflammation of purulent skin (impetigo).
Wheat roots:
- Increase of appetite,
- Anemia.
- Diarrhea. 
Traditional herb Lotus:
1. Coughing up blood, vomiting blood:
Lotus roots are washed and dijuice, until collected 1 glass
size of 200 cc. Drink, do it for 3-5 days in a row.
 
2. Vomiting, diarrhea:
50 g and 15 g of lotus rhizome ginger or grated dijuice washed,
take the water. Drink, 3 times a day.
 
3.Dysentery:
50 g and 10 g of lotus rhizome of ginger, grated or dijuice. water
feelings 10O cc of water was added and heated to
boil. Once cool add 1 tablespoon of honey, stirring
and drunk.
 
4. Hypertension :
a. 10 g and 15 g of seeds of lotus bud lotus seeds. (lien sim), boiled
with 350 cc of water until the remaining 200 cc. Drinking every day
such as tea.
b. Lotus seed bud (lien sim) as much as 10-15 g boiled with water
enough to boil, drink as tea. can also
budding lotus seeds finely ground, brewed with hot water, drink.
 
5. For heart and liver disease:
100 g and 50 g of lotus rhizome fresh reed rhizome, washed
then cut sufficiently. Boiled with 500 cc water
until remaining 250 cc. After chilling filtered, drinks such as tea.

6. Bleeding from the nose (nosebleeds):
Segment of the lotus root is washed and dijuice. The water dripped into
nose. 

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