Good medical sound daily science 丨 Midsummer is about to reach Tongtang lotus in Chinese medicine

July 1, 2022 is the fifth anniversary of the implementation of the "Traditional Chinese Medicine Law of the People's Republic of China". By June 24th, around the summer solstice, the daily popular science of good medical sounds invited major Chinese medicine experts to explain how to use Chinese medicinal materials for summer solstice health.

The summer solstice is the day when the hottest, the most prosperous yang, and the longest day. After that, the summer heat was 45 days later, and the summer of the sun was ushered in. The "prosperity" of the midsummer is when everything is grand and strong. The incense of the lotus pond in the midsummer is far from the sun, leaf fat flowers, Ling Bocui cover, and the posture of tender leucorrhea. It is like a fairy danced in the pool, and she really "connects the sky lotus leaves, and the lotus lotus is red." Xiahe not only has ornamental value, but also has important medicinal value. Professor Hong Lei of Chongqing Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine introduced us to introduce Xiahe's health effects.

Expert Introduction

Hong Lei, a professor of Chongqing Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a member of the Health Branch of the Chinese Medicine Society, chairman of the Chongqing Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine Society, experts from the National Medicine Cultural Popular Science Cultural Science Cultural Science Experts, Chongqing Health Popular Science Experts of Traditional Chinese Medicine Long, a popular science expert in Chinese medicine culture in Chongqing.

Lotus has a long history of eating

The lotus, with its dazzling colors and elegant style, walked into people's spiritual world. As early as the Book of Songs, there were records: "There are Fu Su, 隰 and lotus flowers in the mountains." Wu Wangfu's "Playing Huachi" built by Xi Shi, the "Lotus Crane Fang Pot" during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period reflects the spiritual effect of lofty and holy lotus on people at the time. In the early Han Dynasty, "Erya" recorded the classification of various parts of the lotus: "Lotus, Fushu (lotus), its stem eggplant, its leaf, its dense, its flowers, in fact, the roots of the roots, the pupa, the 菂 菂. "Lotus culture had developed very far at the time. The lotus is not only noble, but also beautiful. It is recorded as the history of the ingredients as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty. It's right.

Under the summer sun, walk into the pavilion and shade, looking at the green ponds, shining waves, and the large lotus flowers under the support of the stems that make the sun feel helpless, telling the world that they can get rid of the heat in the water. The effect of dehumidification. Chinese painting uses lotus as a symbol of summer, focusing on lotus flowers in summer, clearing the function of summer heat.

The whole body of the lotus is treasure

The whole body of the lotus is treasure. The lotus seeds and lotus seeds can be eaten. Lotus seeds, rhizomes, ravioli, lotus leaves, flowers and seeds can be used as medicine. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that the lotus flowers clear the heat and detoxify, clear the heart and cool blood; The role, so the folk has the saying "new and tenderness is victorious."

Cooked ravioli, its sex also changes from cold to warm, has the effect of nourishing the stomach and nourishing yin, and strengthening the spleen and qi. It is a good food supplement. It is used to make ravioli powder, which is both nutritious and easy to digest. It has the effect of nourishing blood and stopping bleeding. Cleaning the medicine to clear the heat and detoxify, stop bleeding and dispersing stasis; lotus must clear the heart, refresh the thirst, relieve heat and relieve the annoyance; Lotus leaf threshold dehumidification, spleen and diarrhea.

There is a lotus garden near Laoshan, Chongqing City. When the lotus is opened in the season, it is also when the heat is hot and hot. Lotus rice porridge ...

Nowadays, in the hot summer, a cup of lotus tea is brewed with the dry lotus leaves, with a faint fragrance, fresh and refreshing, clearing heat and relieving heat; boiled a bowl of lotus seed porridge, delicate taste and moisturizing the heart and lungs. In your spare time, you can also invite a few close friends to the restaurant to order a lotus banquet, while smelling the aroma of lotus leaf chicken, chewing a crispy small fried lotus stalk, drinking fresh and sweet lotus seeds, with the fragrance of nine grades overflowing with fragrance Perfume lotus tea, while chatting at home, is all the beauty of the world. (Invited experts/Hong Lei correspondent/Xiang Jiangyun map/Vision China)

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