Not everyone can eat lotus leaves well.

Nowadays, many women believe that eating lotus leaves will help them lose weight and maintain a beautiful figure, but few people know that not everyone can eat lotus leaves.

Lotus leaves contain flavonoids including hyperin, isoquercetin, astragalin and asparagine, alkaloids such as nelumbin, nuciferin, liensinin. Nuciferin has the effect of prolonging sleep, every day use 5-10 grams of dried leaves in the form of boiling water to make tea, nelumbin has the effect of calming and calming sexual desire.

According to clinical trials, lotus leaf extract also has the effect of strengthening the heart and lowering blood pressure. Oriental medicine uses parts of the lotus to treat fever, thirst, nocturnal emission, rapid heartbeat, high blood pressure, anxiety, panic, and insomnia.

Nowadays, many women believe that eating lotus leaves will help them lose weight and maintain a beautiful figure, but few people know that eating lotus leaves is not good for everyone. Illustrative photo

Regarding the anti-obesity effects of lotus leaves, according to the research results of Japanese scientists published in scientific journals, lotus leaf extract helps inhibit the absorption of fat and carbohydrates, thereby preventing the increase in body weight, preventing the accumulation of fat in cells causing obesity (in experimental models of mice fed a high-fat diet), although eating a lot of fat, the triglyceride content in the blood is not high. That is why people believe that using lotus leaves will help.

However, lotus leaves have a bitter taste and are cold, so people with heat in their bodies can drink it to cool down, feel refreshed, and sleep well.

On the contrary, people with heat deficiency can sleep after drinking it, but in the long run, they will become tired, lose memory, and have irregular heartbeats. Long-term use of lotus leaves can affect physiological functions and reduce sexual desire.

Due to its high alkaloid content, lotus leaves have strong pharmacological effects and affect the heart, so attention should be paid to dosage and should not be used for a long time. Although non-toxic, it is not recommended for people with anemia, pregnant women, breastfeeding women, infants and should not be used with the medicinal herb Poria.

According to Alobacsi.vn