Can pregnant women eat lotus leaves?

Many pregnant women and their families know the importance of diet for pregnant women, but they just don’t know what pregnant women can and cannot eat. Are there any principles that pregnant women can follow in their diet? In fact, in addition to supplementing adequate nutrition, there are many details that we need to pay attention to in the diet of pregnant women. The diet of pregnant women should be light and pay attention to the diversity of food.

Pregnant women can try to eat more meat. Of course, it is best if the meat is rich in protein and low in fat, such as fish. Pregnant women can eat more seafood to supplement sufficient amino acids and trace elements.

Leaves of lotus, a herbaceous plant of the Nymphaeaceae family. It is produced in Hunan, Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places in the south. Harvested in summer. Use fresh or dried.

Therapeutic effects of lotus leaves: Lotus leaves taste bitter, spicy and slightly astringent, and are cool in nature. They can hurt the spleen and stomach, so a little warming must be added to alleviate the cold nature. , enters the heart, liver, and spleen meridians

Fresh and refreshing fragrance; has the effects of relieving heat and dampness, strengthening the spleen and raising yang, dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding

It is mainly used to treat summer heat, thirst, headache, dizziness, edema, loss of appetite and abdominal distension, diarrhea, leucorrhea, rectal prolapse, hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia, postpartum lochia, and blood stasis caused by injury.

usage:

1. It is suitable to be used raw to clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and it is suitable to be fried and charred to disperse blood stasis and stop bleeding.

2. Fresh ones are good at clearing away summer heat and are often used in combination with fresh Patchouli, fresh Cymbidium orchid, and Watermelon Rind in clinical practice.

3. It can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also promote spleen yang. It is effective in treating summer heat diarrhea and is often used in combination with lentils.

4. In addition, it can also be added to spleen and stomach tonifying medicines for those with spleen deficiency, qi deficiency, and diarrhea.

Lotus leaf is suitable for people who are thin and have weak qi and blood.

[Properties] Contains bioalkali, flavonoids and organic acids.

[Use] Used for summer heat and thirst; spleen deficiency, poor appetite, diarrhea; vomiting blood, epistaxis, bloody stool, and metrorrhagia.

[Usage] Decoction, tea, porridge and rice.

1. Promote intestinal peristalsis and excrete toxins

Lotus leaf tea contains a lot of fiber, which can promote large intestine peristalsis, help defecation and thus eliminate toxins. Lotus leaf tea has a more laxative effect than general high-fiber foods. It directly solves the problem of constipation, so the bulging belly will slowly become flat.

2. Drainage and diuresis, healthy fat burning

The aromatic compounds in lotus leaf tea can effectively dissolve fat, remove turbidity and greasiness and prevent fat from accumulating in the body; vitamin B1, C and caffeine can promote the secretion of gastric juice, aid digestion and burn fat. For those who suffer from chronic fatigue and stress, or those who cannot lose weight due to qi stagnation, anslim herbal tea extracted from lotus leaves can achieve a double slimming effect. At the same time, it has an excellent diuretic effect. Office workers who sit for a long time and do little exercise, ladies who are prone to edema, spleen deficiency, and qi deficiency should drink more lotus leaf tea. When excess fat and retained electrolytes in the body are discharged, people will naturally become thinner.

3. Rich in tea leptin, improve metabolism

Tea leptin is a natural protein component of appetite and energy balance regulation pathways. It does not contain any chemical ingredients harmful to the body and will not cause side effects such as diarrhea and abdominal pain. The lack of leptin in tea will inhibit metabolism, reduce energy consumption efficiency and lead to obesity. Drinking lotus leaf tea can replenish the tea leptin consumed by the human body in the intestines, which can improve the body's metabolism and make you lose weight easily.

Above, we introduced that pregnant women’s diet needs to pay attention to supplementing adequate nutrition. Many foods are beneficial to pregnant women and fetuses, so we recommend that pregnant women can eat more. Pregnant women can eat more seafood because these foods contain high-quality protein. Although the lotus leaves mentioned above have the effect of detoxification and weight loss, they are not suitable for pregnant women.