Traditional Chinese medicine (95) call around amuse oneself of lotus seed

The basic information

【 sex flavor 】 : fresh, dry, flat, non-toxic; Dry temperature, acerbity, non-toxic.

1. "this sutra: gan, ping.

2. "Ben MengQuan" : gan dry, flat cold gas, non-toxic.

3. "the new materia medica", taste sweet, cool, non-toxic.

4. The spectrum with interest in the diet: GanPing fresh, dry GanWen.

[to the] : into the spleen, kidney, heart sutra.

[efficacy] : blessed are amuse oneself, tonifying spleen antidiarrheal, yangxin nerves bright eye, filling in the resting to restore energy, spleen and stomach, fixing sperm of diarrhoea, kidney astringent finishing check belt. Tonic.

【 indications 】 : insomnia, pixu (spleen deficient) long have diarrhoea, defecate pond drainage, flow field, backache, spermatorrhea, woman leucorrhea with red. Also can prevent premature birth, abortion, pregnant women, lumbar acid.

【 taboo 】 : all of the new expansion and defecate dry knot, avoid is uniform. Cannot serve with milk, or aggravating constipation.

【 processing methods 】 :

1. The lotus seed flesh: take the original medicinal materials, removing impurities, slightly immersed in warm water, remove soft embellish, peel off heart medicinal (another) in dry.

2. Fried lotus seed meat: net lotus seed meat, buy container preheating making, heat the mixture gently, stir-fry until the surface color deepened, the inner surface yellowish, aromatic escape, remove to cool.

【 product properties 】 :

1. The lotus seed flesh: half the oval, the center has a groove. The outer surface of the palm red or yellow brown, white meat. Taste GanWei acerbity.

2. Fried lotus seed meat: the surface color deepened, the inner surface yellowish, slightly focal spot.

The processing effect 】 :

1. The lotus seed flesh: taste sweet, acerbity, sexual flat. Return to the spleen, kidney, heart sutra. A beneficial kidney solid essence, tonifying spleen antidiarrheal, yangxin nerves function. Lotus seed meat flat slants cool, longer than the yangxin nerves, used for virtual vexed, fright, insomnia.

2. Fried lotus seed meat: Fried aroma, sexual flat wide temperature, solid acerbity, enhanced than spleen antidiarrheal, kidney and fixing sperm. Used for pixu (spleen deficient) diarrhea, kidney empty spermatorrhea.

Nutritional value

【 cancer anticancer 】 : lotus seed is a good supplement their five zang-organs, the twelve meridians qi and blood, qi chang and does not rot, lotus seeds contain better alkali oxide yellow xinshu has inhibitory effect on nasopharyngeal carcinoma, all of this, constitutes the cancer anticancer nutrition health care function of lotus seed;

"Blood pressure" : lotus seed non-crystalline form alkaloid contained N - 9 is a drop in blood pressure;

: strong mind 】 【 lotus seed core contained alkaloids have significant cardiac function, lotus seed base has a strong resistance to calcium and the function of resisting arrhythmia;

【 nourish tonify deficiency, check heritage shibuya fine 】 : lotus seed contains raffinose, is the tonic for young and old, for a long illness, postpartum or elderly body empty, but common nutritional market; Lotus seeds alkali have tame's sexual desire, for young people to dream more, spermatorrhea frequent or semen leakage, swallowing check of lotus seed has a good astringent essence;

: blessed are, spot 】 【 take heart lotus seed can clear heart, remove freckles, but not for frying.

Chemical composition

Carbohydrates (62%), protein content (6.6%), fat (2.0%), calcium (0.089%), p (0.285%), iron (0.0064%). The fatty acid composition of fat: nutmeg acid (myristicacid) 0.04%, palmitic acid (17.32% palmiticacid), oleic acid (21.91% oleicacid), linoleic acid (linoleicacid) 54.17%, 6.19% linolenic acid (linolenicacid). The fruit and amine (higenamine). Peel contains lotus leaf alkaloid (nuciferine), the original lotus leaf alkali (nornciferine), oxygen yellow xinshu alkali (Oxoushinsunine) and N - to JiaYaMei papaverine (N - norarmepavine).

contraindication

1, filled with the new expansion and defecate dry knot, avoid is uniform.

2, "Ben gleanings" : born, bilge abdomen, the job is to vomit, food as they go.

3, the herbal medicine preparation: move bowels dry do not.

4, "along with interest in eating spectrum" : before and after all these, malaria, jaundice, malnutrition, hemorrhoids, qi depression the new expansion, drowned red constipation, eat not operation, and the and new postpartum are jealous.

Modern research

Main ingredients: lotus seed more content of starch and Raffinose (Raffinose), 16.6% protein, 2.0% fat, 62% carbohydrate, 0.089% calcium, phosphorus, 0.285% 0.0064% of iron also contains beta Sitosterol, beta Sitosterol, beta Sitosterol, fatty acid ester (beta Sitosterol fatty ester), it is rich in vitamin C, glucose, chlorophyll, palmitic acid and glutathione etc.

Contains: the lotus lotus alkali (Roemerine) and lotus leaf alkaloid (Nuciferine), cherimoya alkali (Anonaine), alkali (Pronuciferine), N - the original lotus leaf drop lotus leaf alkaloid (N - Nornuci - ferine), apricot yellow papaverine (Armepavine), N - methyl hengchow radix linderae alkali (N - Methylcoclaurine), dehydrogenation lotus alkali (Dehydroroemerine), alkali (Dehydronu - ciferine) dehydrogenation lotus leaf, dehydrogenation cherimoya alkali (Dehydroanonaine), N - methyl isopropyl hengchow radix linderae alkali (N - Methylisococlaurine).

Lotus seed efficacy

The ancients said, also can eat lotus seed rejuvenation, forever. This is not credible, but regarding its in yangxin nerves, brain puzzle, eliminate fatigue, etc, medicinal value, all previous dynasties medicine books recorded. Such as in compendium of material medica and shennong materia medica shortage make-up, "compendium of materia medica", "herbal medicine preparation" is documented. Modern pharmacological research also confirmed that the lotus seed has a calming, cardiac, anti-aging, etc. Lotus seed is very rich in nutrition, in addition to containing a large amount of starch, still contain beta sitosterol, alkaloids and rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals and vitamins. Every 100 grams of lotus seed contains 89 mg calcium, phosphorus content of up to 285 mg, potassium, although less than 2.1 mg, but in all plant and animal food is at the top of the list.

Lotus seeds as a health medicinal food diet, is generally not abandon lotus seed core. Is the lotus seeds in the center of the green lotus seed core germ, bitter taste, have clear heat, solid essence, nerves, the effect of strong heart, will use boiling water to soak lotus seed core 2 grams drink, can treat irritability caused by high fever, consciousness and nocturnal emission semen leakage, also used to treat high blood pressure, giddy, palpitations insomnia.

The clinical application of 】 :

Lotus seed has blessed are amuse oneself, tonifying spleen antidiarrheal, yangxin nerves bright eye, filling in the resting to restore energy, fixing sperm of diarrhoea, kidney astringent finishing check belt. Tonic. From the point of view of clinical application, lotus seed, suitable for mild insomnia, such as doesn't work, can be appropriately use stability control, but not long-term use. Long-term stability and has great harm to the body, such as drug dependence patients, in addition, patients with insomnia should develop good habits, such as more than for a walk after supper, usual movement and so on, these are very good help for the recovery of sleep.

"Chinese pharmacopoeia" : lotus seed

Lotus seed medicine name 】 【

"Pinyin" Lian Z ǐ

[English] by NELUMBINIS

"Alias" lotus meat, lotus meters

【 origin 】 this product is a water lily plant lotus Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn) of the dry mature seeds. Remove the lotus nut said lotus meat. Autumn fruit matures cutting in lotus seed pot, fruit, remove the peel and dry.

【 characteristics 】 this product is slightly oval or spherical, 1.2 1.8 cm long, 0.8 1.4 cm in diameter. Surface pale yellow brown to reddish brown, thin vertical lines and wide veins. In center of end papillae, dark brown, there are many cracks and its surrounding slightly. Qualitative hard, thin skin, not easy to peel. Cotyledons 2, yellowish-white, hypertrophy, there is gap, green lotus plumule. Odourless, taste sweet, acerbity; Lotus plumule bitter taste.

[identify] (1) this kind of white powder. Advocate for starch grains, single grain oblong, round, ovoid or triangle, some small tips, 4 ~ 25 microns in diameter, umbilical point a few visible, cracks or dot; Compound grain scarce, composed of 2 ~ 3 points granule. Yellow brown or reddish brown pigment cells, surface view show rectangular, long polygonal or circular, some visible calcium oxalate crystal clusters. Cotyledon cells are oblong, slightly thick wall, some make renju form, faintly visible tattoos Kong Yu. Visible thread and annular duct.

(2) the powder with a little amount of this product, add right amount water blender, add iodine test solution for several drops, violet, gradually fade after heating, put the cold, violet repetition.

(3) take the product powder 0.5 g, 5 ml of water, soaking, filtration, the filtrate tube, add alpha alpha-naphthol test solution for several drops, shake well, along the wall slowly add 1 ml of sulfuric acid two liquid junction place a purple color ring.

(4) the coarse powder amount of this product 5 g, adding chloroform 30 ml, vibration wave, the place for the night, filtration, the filtrate zhenggan residue with 2 ml of acetic acid to dissolve, as the test solution. Another 5 g of lotus seed control medicinal material, with the legal system into a controlled drug solution. According to thin layer chromatography (appendix Ⅵ B) test, each 2 mu l learned these two solution, each point in the same silica G thin layer plate, with n-hexane - acetone (7:2) as developing agent,, remove and dry spray with 5% vanillin 10% ethanol solution of sulfuric acid in the 105 ℃ heating to the spot color is clear. In the chromatogram of the test, chromatographic corresponding to the position, the same color spots.

[up] slightly dipping, nourishes, cut, go to the heart, dry.

Gump, sexual flavour 】 【 acerbity, ping.

"To the" return to the spleen, kidney, heart sutra.

【 function attending 】 tonifying spleen antidiarrheal, kidney essence, yangxin nerves. For the long xie pixu (spleen deficient), spermatorrhea taken down, heart palpitations insomnia.

【 usage and dosage 】 6 ~ 15 g.

【 from 】 "Chinese pharmacopoeia"

The Chinese medicine dictionary: lotus seed

Lotus seed medicine name 】 【

"Pinyin" Lian Z ǐ

"Alias" lotus root, zhi Dan (" this sutra), water lotus (" erya "shanhaijing summarized note), ze zhi (of materia medica), LianPengZi (" shanxi traditional Chinese medicine).

【 origin 】 the huang on

【 origin 】 for nymphaeaceae plant lotus fruit or seeds. Autumn, early winter cut lotus seed pot, fruit and dried; Or collected fell into the water, and the fruit of sank in the mud, wash and dry. Or remove the nut after dry. By frost old familiar with colored fruit shell is called the "stone lotus seed"; Remove the nut seed referred to as the "lotus meat".

【 】 the original form (" don't record "), also known as: Dutch (the book of songs), drainage (" erya "), lotus, water cheese (Cui Bao "ancient and modern note").

Aquatic perennial herb. Rhizomes thick cross walk, with yellowish-white skin, section constriction, have scale leaves and adventitious roots, internode enlargement, in white, hollow and there are many longitudinal line pipe. Blade peltate, above the water, 30-90 cm in diam., margin entire, slightly wavy, dark green above, smooth, white powder, light green below: petiole was born back central, cylindrical, hollow, up to 1 ~ 2 m, surface scattered sting. Pedicel with petiole contour or slightly higher; Flowers large, single,, 12 ~ 23 cm in diameter, pink or white, fragrant; Sepals 4 or 5, green, small, early fall; Petals majority, oblong-elliptic, elliptic to obovate, apex obtuse, outside-in became smaller; Stamens numerous, early fall, anther linear, yellow, connectivum apex into a rod-shaped appendages, filaments slender, born in the receptacle; Carpel majority, buried in the thalamus, receptacle inverted cone, at the top of the flat, there are holes 20 ~ 30, each hole with 1 oval ovary and style very short, the fruiting receptacle increased gradually, the fort spongy, commonly known as "lotus", width is 5 ~ 10 cm. Nuts, elliptic or ovate, 1.5 2.5 cm long, hard skin, leathery; Inside the seed 1, commonly known as "lotus". Flowering 7 ~ 8 months, fruiting 9 ~ 10 months.

Since the habitat division 】 【 raw or growing in the pond. In most parts of our country. Agriculture of hunan, hubei, fujian, jiangsu, zhejiang, jiangxi. Production in hunan products best, fujian is the largest. In addition, shandong, anhui, shanxi, henan, liaoning, heilongjiang, yunnan, guizhou, shaanxi and other places also.

【 description 】 (1) stone lotus seed (" don't record ")

Also known as: sweet encrinite, shell lotus seeds, lotus seeds with the skin. The oval form elliptic, slightly pointed at both ends and 1.5 ~ 2 cm long, 0.8 1.2 cm in diameter, surface brown or colored, grey dye cream, remove after burnish, slightly visible densely light color dots; At the top of a small round hole, base have short peduncle, fruit stalk there were round brown small bumps. Qualitative hard and not easy to break; Peel thickness of about 1 mm, inner surface red-brown. Seeds inside a, namely the meat. No, astringent taste Xi food. In the dark and full, qualitative hard power.

(2) the lotus meat (" of materia medica ")

Also known as: encrinite meat (the pharmacopoeia). Oval, 1.2 1.7 cm long, 0.7 1.2 cm in diameter. Red brown or yellow brown skin, and are clingy on seeds, not easy to peel; Dark brown emulsion processes at one end, there are many cracks. Some seeds have been remove skin, its surface is yellow-white, seeds 2 slices, thick, hard, have a play, central has a big gap, contains germs of green (lotus nut). No, sweet light acerbity taste. With a big, full, neat person is preferred.

More content of starch and chemical composition 】 【 raffinose, 16.6% protein, 2.0% fat, 62% carbohydrate, 0.089% calcium, phosphorus by 0.285% and 0.0064% of iron.

So go pods containing lotus leaf alkali, N - methyl lotus leaf alkali, alkali and N - to JiaYaMei oxide yellow xinshu papaverine. Ning alkali oxide yellow xinshu inhibition ability of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Can pick up 】 【 all impurities, or smash, peeling, go to the heart. Or will stone lotus seed after the pot boiled, cutting, peeling, dry.

"Sexual flavour" gump acerbity, ping.

(1) "this sutra:" gan, ping."

(2) "compendium MengQuan" : "gan acerbity, gas flat cold, non-toxic."

(3) "new materia medica", "taste sweet, cool, non-toxic."

(4) "with interest in eating spectrum" : "GanWen GanPing fresh, dry."

"To the" into the heart, spleen, kidney meridian.

(1) the tripterygium wilfordii processing medicinal solution: "into the heart, stomach, bladder after."

(2) "huang shu", "the full moon, Yang Ming, and with less Yin meridians."

(3) the: "new materia medica" four into the heart, spleen, liver and kidney."

Yangxin, attending function 】 【 kidney, tonifying spleen. Shibuya intestinal. Night sleep soundly dream, spermatorrhea, drench turbidity, dysentery, diarrhea, woman ren taken down. Stone lotus seed and anti-nausea, appetizing, commonly used to treat 'mouths flow field.

(1) "the classics", "the Lord to fill in, resting to restore energy, good strength."

(2) the jar is agreeable freedom, "he breathed his last, the main five zang-organs is insufficient, the broken interests twelve meridians flesh."

(3) "compendium gleanings" : "to black, not old."

(4) "bromides heart mirror" : "thirst, to hot."

(5) the solar corona material medica son: "yiqi, thirst, helps the heart, flow field. To treat lumbago, discharge fine."

6. The daily material medica: "check polydipsia, diarrhea, gonorrhea."

All landowners compendium of material medica: south yunnan "call."

End "of materia medica", "heart kidney, thick intestines and stomach, solid essence, strong bones and muscles, fill is deficient, the eyes and ears, in addition to cold dampness, check spleen leakage flow field, red gonorrhea, women down collapse in the blood disease."

Pet-name ruby "herbal medicine preparation" : "blessed are except vexed, appetizing food, cure 'mouths dysentery, drench turbidity syndrome."

Attending the spectrum with interest in the diet, "town inverse anti-nausea, solid and hardness, the mainland can't help."

【 usage and dosage 】 oral: decoct soup, 2 ~ 4 money; Or the pill, powder.

【 note 】 in the new full bilge and defecate dry knot, avoid is uniform.

(1) "compendium gleanings" : "born, bilge abdomen, the job is to vomit, food as they go."

(2) "of materia medica", "tuckahoe, yam, atractylodes, medlar good."

(3) the medica preparation ":" do not move bowels dry."

(4) the spectrum with interest in the diet, "before and after all these, malaria, jaundice, malnutrition, hemorrhoids, qi depression the new expansion, drowned red constipation, eat not operation, and the new postpartum and avoid these things."

【 compound 】 (1) long flow field more than cure: old lotus seed two (to), to the end of each take one money, for soups. (" the specialized work party ")

(2) under flow field does not enter the diet, the common name 'mouths flow field: one or two fresh lotus meat, rhizoma coptidis five money, ginseng five money. Water but concentrated solution, and sip. (" huang shu ")

(3) 'mouths dysentery cure: encrinite not by how much, not Fried, strip shell, the flesh and heart, grinding is the end of the fine. Zha gen 2 money, drink under. (" 101 choose party ")

(4) put on the heart inflammation, under hot and humid, urine dry red, drench turbidity collapse belt, spermatorrhea etc, radix scutellariae, radix ophiopogonis (heart), bone, skin, semen plantaginis, liquorice (main) two and half encrinite meat (heart), white poria cocos, astragalus membranaceus (honey), ginseng every seven and a half money. On the file. Every three money, ophiopogon 10 pieces, one and a half of water, and take eight frying, hollow eat before serving. (the pharmacopoeia call lotus seed drink)

(5) to treat heart sutra heat, urine turbidity: six two encrinite meat (judges), a two main licorice. At the end of the fine. Take two money, every tune damselfly decoct soup. Children (" RenZhai attaches to party "lotus seed soup)

6 urinate cure gonorrhea, nocturnal emission leakage essence: lotus meat, fructus alpiniae oxyphyllae, keel (five colours) all equal. Is the end of the fine. Take two money, each hollow with pure rice drink under. (open for lotus meat powder)

All landowners to fill empty profit loss: lotus (peeled) not by how much, with a good wine soaked night, into the big pig, use water, remove baked. On is very fine at the end of the bar paste for pills, such as the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. Take five each, seventy pills, he drank down the food before. (medical invention cheese water pill)

Today after treating stomach weak, needless to water: meat, Fried four two of japonica rice, poria cocos two two. In the end of the sugar. Send two, each with clear soup. (" three books and materials "lotus meatloaf)

Pet-name ruby court: cure encrinite meat, to the end of the some cardamom, at the end of the rice water by hot suit. (" RenZhai attaches to party "lotus seed powder)

Attending to treat postpartum inverse stomach cold cough, vomiting, don't eat, or belly bulge: encrinite meat for two and a half, a two white poria cocos, clove five money. For the late on. Take two money each and informal, in drink ginger soup or rice, day three suits. (for woman encrinite powder)

Each paper 】 【 (1) "of materia medica", "lotus gan, temperatures and sexual acerbity, the great qing fang gas, the taste of the farm, is the fruit of the spleen. Earth is the mother of vigour, mother and both gas, fluid, god is spontaneous, long resistance to the old, the its QuanYu. Also yesterday man heart kidney don't pay, internal lesion caused by overexertion gonorrhea, blessed are lotus seed drink; bushing kidney, yi JingXie, have red lotus pill, all have to understand this."

(2) "the classics on the original" : "stone lotus seed, the real old lotus in the lotus seed pot, fall into a mire, durable solid black as stone, so to name. For toxic heat 'mouths flow field of medicine. Deleting... benefits spleen Yin and toxic heat, but will and ginseng to cut in the stomach, which should be. If the cold flow field for a long time stomach qi deficiency, mouth silence can't feed, is GeJi also."

(3) "the jade Chinese catalpa medicine solution", "lotus seed GanPing, very good taste, but solid acerbity of sex, most appropriate, the home of diarrhea, spermatorrhea, loose stools, fine effect."

(4) "cure a wood code to" : "lotus seed, to heart even PiSheng chew, the yi people, except vexed, thirst, dry, and blood, check nocturnal emission, fever. Cooking only treat spleen discharge, long, thick intestines and stomach, renal and heart of minus. More peeling, no acerbity, its work on tonifying spleen."

Essay # 5. The chongqing ", "lotus seeds, kidney, heart to heart, and can delay."

6 "the wang basis", "lotus seeds, fill the stomach and town gas inverse, if nausea due to stomach deficiency, and qi chong doesn't. But, with the dry lotus seed fine chew and swallow, is better than his more. Whoever stomach gas BoRuoZhe secret jade cheese balls, can a fertilizer. To flow field 'mouths, heat evil wound in his stomach and qi, thus chinensis bitter drain its evil, namely battle lotus seed town its stomach. This full lotus is false, bitter taste can hurt a stomach, must not use. But fresh lotus seed of Fried, not muddy, town of stomach work alone, without fresh lotus, dry lotus."

[from] the Chinese medicine dictionary

"The Chinese material medica: lotus seed

Lotus seed medicine name 】 【

"Pinyin" Lian Z ǐ

[English] Lotus Seed

"Alias", 薂, lotus root, water zhi Dan, lotus, ze zhi, LianPengZi, lotus meat.

【 origin 】 from the huang on

【 origin 】 medicinal material base source: is the seed of nymphaeaceae lotus plant.

Latin animal plant mineral name: Nelumbo nucifere Gaertn.

Harvesting and storage: 9 - October when ripe, cut lotus, peel the fruit, while fresh with a sharp knife slit to skin shell, dry.

"The original form" lotus Aquatic perennial herb. Rhizomes horizontal, hypertrophy, internode enlargement, with the majority of longitudinal ventilation holes, exogenous must form adventitious roots. Section on the leaf surface; Petiole was born back central, stout, cylindric, prickly; Blade round, diameter of 25-90 cm, margin entire or slightly undulating, flour on the green, veins from the central injection below, 1 to 2 times the forked branches. Flowers solitary in the top of the pedicel and peduncle and petiole length or slightly longer, also scattered small prickles; Spend 10-20 cm in diameter, fragrance, red, pink or white; Petals elliptic or obovate, 5 -- 10 cm, 3-5 cm wide; Stamens numerous, anther bar, filaments slender, one born in supporting; Carpels most buried within the swollen receptacle, ovary elliptic, style very short. Flowers after the "lotus", taper, 5-10 cm in diameter, small holes 20-30, every hole containing fruit; Nuts, elliptic or ovate, 1.5 2.5 cm long, fruit quality, leather hard, deep dark brown. Seeds ovate or elliptic, 1.2 1.7 cm long, seed coat red or white. Flowering in August 6 -, fruiting 8-10 months.

Ecological environment habitat division 】 【 : in water, ponds, lakes, or in the paddy field, wild or cultivated.

Resource distribution: all around in the north and the south.

Biological characteristics like warm humid climate, cultivation 】 【 above 10 ℃ when Mark Twain. Kind of lotus root crown start germination, the temperature of 15 ℃ above, the stem leaf growth, 20-30 ℃ the most suitable stem leaf growth and flowering results, the optimal knot lotus root, 25 and 35 ℃ when the temperature drops below 15 ℃ plants stop growing. The early growth of water requirement: the optimal, 5-10 cm 20-30 cm from the growth stage, water should not be submerged leaves. Cultivation techniques With lotus root, lotus root seeding, choose paddy soil fertile, retention of fat. To section 2 kinds of lotus root in general, each hole shoots lotus root 2 or 1 bottle kiss lotus root, lotus root. 1 per hm2 planted 7500-12000, when planted in lotus root form trenching, the lotus root askew, crown tip down. Mud trench cover, pressure to prevent the float.

Weed control, crop management to remove yellow floating leaf. Is given priority to with basal fertilizer, fertilizer is complementary, generally in the main stem long 1-2 leaf fertilizer 1 times, each 1 hm2 applying manure 15000-22500 kg or 225 kg of nitrogenous fertilizer, in order to promote leaf growth and branching. Pest control long legs plagiodera water, with 40% ethyl enemy powder every 1 hm230kg, mixed with fine soil, 375 kg, plowing, and into the shallow soil tillage after fire. Lotus narrow shake the mosquitoes, larval stage spray 90% between 1000-1500 times liquid. Lotus root black rot, lotus root jie spot disease, illness onset in 5 o % carbendazim 0.3% more 500 detergent spray; Keep clear of in time sick leaves.

【 description 】 identification seeds slightly oval or spherical, 1.2 1.7 cm long, 0.8 1.5 cm in diameter. Surface pale yellow brown to reddish brown, thin vertical lines and wide veins, apex central papillae, dark brown, often split, its surroundings and under the sink in the strategy. Kind of skin thinning, clingy cotyledon, not easy to peel. Qualitative hard, after the break the visible yellowish-white cotyledons 2 pieces, center be recessed into the trough, green lotus plumule. No gas, taste sweet, acerbity, lotus plumule very bitter. As a big full is preferred.

Microscopical identification of powder characteristics: (1) starch grains is numerous, the single grain of elliptic, broadly ovoid or clam shells, 5-21 mu m long, 5-13 microns in diameter, umbilical point seam shape, grain is not obvious. (2) cotyledons thin cell wall to do a bead chain, faintly visible lines Kong Yu, pit triangle or slightly longer, closely packed. (3) seed epidermal cell surface polygonal or irregular shape, crescent stomatal guard cells, cells are grid sample texture, accessory cell 4 to 7. (4) the radicle cells rectangle, neat rows, murphy thin, some fat droplets.

Chemical composition 】 【 contain carbohydrates (62%), protein (6.6%), fat (2.0%), calcium (0.089%), phosphorus (0.285%), iron (0.0064%). The fatty acid composition of fat: nutmeg acid (myristic acid) 0.04%, palmitic acid (17.32% palmiticacid), oleic acid (oleic acid) 21.91%, linoleic acid (54.17% linoleicacid), linolenic acid, linolenic acid) 6.19%. The fruit and amine (higenamine). Peel contains lotus leaf alkaloid (nuciferine), the original lotus leaf alkali (nornciferine), oxygen yellow xinshu alkali (Oxoushinsunine) and N - to JiaYaMei papaverine (N - norarmepavine).

Physical and chemical identification of thin layer chromatography [identify] : take this product powder 0.1 g, 10 ml of 70% ethanol, quenching and 4 h, filtration, the filtrate of the solution. Another raffinose 75% ethanol solution, as a reference substance. Absorb and reference substance solution right amount of the test, each point on the same - silica gel G plate, butyric acid with n-butanol - ice - water (4:1:5), 2 times, gush to a - naphthol sulfur acid, 10 ℃ heating color, package and the potential of the test in the corresponding position of reference substance chromatography, show the same color spots.

Can pick up 】 【 all impurities, or smash, peeling, go to the heart. Or will stone lotus seed after the pot boiled, cutting, peeling, dry.

Sexual flavour gan 】; Astringent; flat

[to the] heart; The spleen; Kidney; The stomach; Liver; bladder

【 function attending 】 tonifying spleen antidiarrheal. Kidney is fine; Yangxin nerves. The main long xie pixu (spleen deficient); Xie long flow field; Kidney empty spermatorrhea; Diarrhea; Can't help you urinate; The woman ren down; Not myself; Into the fright. Don't sleep

【 usage and dosage 】 oral: decoct soup, 6-15 g; Or the pill, powder.

【 note 】 in the new full bilge and defecate dry knot, avoid is uniform.

1. "Ben gleanings" : born, bilge abdomen, the job is to vomit, food as they go.

2. The herbal medicine preparation: move bowels dry do not.

3. The spectrum with interest in the diet: before and after all these, malaria, jaundice, malnutrition, hemorrhoids, qi depression the new expansion, drowned red constipation, eat not operation, and the and new postpartum are jealous.

【 compound 】 (1) long flow field more than cure: old lotus seed two (to), to the end of each take one money, for soups. (" the specialized work party ") (2) under flow field does not enter the diet, the common name 'mouths flow field: fresh meat one or two, rhizoma coptidis five money, ginseng five money. Water but concentrated solution, and sip. (" huang shu ") (3) 'mouths dysentery cure: encrinite not by how much, not Fried, strip shell, meat and heart, grinding is the end of the fine. Take two money, every meters drink under. (" 101 choose party ") (4) put on the heart inflammation, under hot and humid, urine dry red, drench turbidity collapse belt, spermatorrhea etc, radix scutellariae, radix ophiopogonis (heart), bone, skin, semen plantaginis, liquorice (main) two and half encrinite meat (heart), white poria cocos, astragalus membranaceus (honey), ginseng every seven and a half money. On the file. Every three money, ophiopogon 10 pieces, one and a half of water, and take eight frying, hollow eat before serving. (5) the pharmacopoeia call lotus seed drink treat heart sutra heat, turbid urine chek: encrinite meat (judges) 6 two, a two main licorice. At the end of the fine. Take two money, every tune damselfly decoct soup. Children (RenZhai attaches to the lotus seed soup) 6 urinate gonorrhea, nocturnal emission leakage essence: lotus meat, fructus alpiniae oxyphyllae, keel (five colours) all equal. Is the end of the fine. Take two money, each hollow with pure rice drink under. (open for lotus meat powder) 7 tonify deficiency profit loss: lotus (peeled) not by how much, with a good wine soaked night, into the big pig, use water, remove baked. On is very fine at the end of the bar paste for pills, such as the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. Take five each, seventy pills, he drank down the food before. (cheese "medical inventions" water pills) today after treating stomach weak, needless to water: meat, Fried four two of japonica rice, poria cocos two two. In the end of the sugar. Send two, each with clear soup. (" three books and materials "lotus meatloaf) pet-name ruby court: cure encrinite meat, to the end of the some cardamom, at the end of the rice water by hot suit. (Ren Zhai attaches to the lotus seed powder) attending to treat postpartum inverse stomach cold cough, vomiting, don't eat, or belly bulge: encrinite meat and two and a half, white poria cocos, one or two cloves five money. For the late on. Take two money each and informal, in drink ginger soup or rice, day three suits. (for woman encrinite powder)

【 each paper 】 1. "this sutra: main fill in, resting to restore energy, good strength.

2. Meng agreeable freedom: the main five zang-organs, injury in the dying gasp, the interests of the twelve meridians flesh.

3. "Ben gleanings" : make the black, not old.

4. "bromides heart mirror" : thirst, to heat.

5. The solar corona a material medica: yiqi, thirst, helps the heart, flow field. To treat lumbago, drain.

6. Compendium of material medica: daily check polydipsia, diarrhea, gonorrhea.

7. The material medica south yunnan: blessed are antipyretic.

8 "of materia medica" : heart kidney, thick intestines and stomach, solid essence, strong bones and muscles, fill is deficient, the eyes and ears, in addition to the cold dampness, check spleen leakage flow field, red gonorrhea, women down collapse in the blood disease.

9. The herbal medicine preparation: blessed are except vexed, whets the appetite to eat, specializes in 'mouths dysentery, drench turbidity all CARDS.

10. The spectrum with interest in the diet: town inverse anti-nausea, solid and hardness, the mainland can't help.

11. "of materia medica" : the taste of sweet, temperature and dry, the great qing fang gas, the taste of the farm, is the fruit of the spleen. Mother is the mother of vigour, and both gas, fluid, god is spontaneous, long resistance to the old, the pole and also. Ever man heart kidney don't pay, internal lesion caused by overexertion gonorrhea, blessed are lotus seed drink; Repair heart kidney, benefit JingXie, red lotus pill, all have to understand this.

12. "the classics on the original" : stone lotus seed, the real old lotus in the lotus seed pot, fall into a mire, durable solid black as stone, so to name. For toxic heat 'mouths flow field of medicine. Allowance of spleen Yin and deleting toxic heat, will stomach gas, and energetically open of ginseng which should be. If the cold flow field for a long time stomach qi deficiency, mouth silence can't feed, is GeJi also.

13. The jade Chinese catalpa medicine solution: lotus seed GanPing, very good taste, but solid acerbity of sex, most appropriate, the home of diarrhea, spermatorrhea, loose stools, fine effect.

14. The medical code to Lin: lotus seed, to heart even PiSheng chewing, the yi people, except vexed, thirst, dry, and blood, check nocturnal emission, fever. Cooking only treat spleen discharge, long, thick intestines and stomach, renal and heart of reduction. More to skin, no acerbity, its work on tonifying spleen.

# 15. The chongqing essays: lotus seed, kidney, heart to heart, and can delay.

16. "wang basis" : lotus seed, fill the stomach and town gas inverse, if nausea due to stomach deficiency, and qi chong not na, but day to dry lotus seed fine chew and swallow, than he medicine. All the stomach gas BoRuoZhe secret jade cheese balls, can very fat. To flow field 'mouths, heat evil wound in his stomach and qi, thus chinensis bitter drain its evil, namely battle lotus seed town its stomach. This full lotus is false, bitter taste can hurt a stomach, must not use. But fresh lotus seed of Fried, not muddy, town of stomach work alone, without fresh lotus, dry lotus.

Clinical application of caesalpinia 】 and anti-nausea, appetizers, commonly used to treat 'mouths flow field.

[from] the Chinese material medica