Benefits Of Lotus

Lotus (Nelumbo Druce Nelumbium) belong to the family Nymphaeaceae. Synonyms of this plant is Nelumbiurn nuciferum, Gaertn. = N. speciosum, Wilid. = Nelumbo nucifera, Gaertn. = Nyrnphaea Nelumbo, Linn. And has local name: Padma, lotus, Terate, tarate, large lotus. Chronic aquatic plants of this beautiful, native of mainland Asia.
 
Lotus cultivated in the waters and ponds, sometimes found growing wild in the swamps. Plant water rumbah upright. Rhizome thick, scaly, growing creeper. Leaves and flowers come out directly from the rhizome attached to the mud at the bottom of the pool. Leaf blade width and round, supported by a long stalk and round in diameter from 0.5 to 1 cm in length, 75-150 cm. Leaves poking above the surface of 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 leaves, diameter of 30-50 cm.  

The flowers are fragrant, grows towering above the water surface with a long round and sturdy stems, long flower stems 75-200 cm. Flower diameter 15-25 cm, stamens many yellow anthers, petals wide, there is an ankle and one double with pink, white and yellow. Flowers bloom all day from morning till evening. After wilting, flower crown bergugurn until finally left the basic interest rate that will occur will be fruit, shaped like inverted cones with a flat surface like a sponge and the holes contain 15-30 seeds, yellowish green color, then green and finally dark brown, median line 6 - 11 cm. Seeds are round like a peanut, found in the pits of fruit shaped like a beehive. 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.
Parts that can be used for the treatment of: The entire plant including roots, leaves and stems, flowers and stamens, seeds and flowers such as buffer honeycomb / sponge (reseptacle), as well as seeds sprout. Use fresh or dried. Lotus contain several different chemical content in each part. 

 In flowers containing lutiolin, isokuersitrin, quercetin, and kaempferol. Stamens contain alkaloids, isokersitrin, leteolin, quercetin and galuteolin. Buffer interest: proteins, fats, carbohydrates carotene, nicotinic acid, vitamin B1, B2, C and slightly nelumbin.  

Seeds: starch-containing raffinosa, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, and iron. Bud seeds: liensinin, isoliensinin, neferin, nuciferin, prouciferin, lotusina, methylcorypallin, demethylcoclaurine, geluteolin and hyperin. Rhizome: starch, protein, asparagine, vit C, d-gallacotechol, neochlorogenik acid, leucocyanidin and peroxidation. Roots: tanat substances, and asparagine. Leaves: roemerin, nornuciferin. Petiole: roemerin, nornuciferin, resins, and substance tanat.  

Usefulness:  

Seeds: 

- Impaired absorption of food (malabsorbtion).  
- Diarrhea due to weakness, chronic intestinal inflammation (chronic enteritis), 
- Dysentery.  
- Vomiting.  
- Whitish, bleeding in women.  
- Wet Dreams (spermatorrhea).  
- Sleep disorders, many dreams.  
- Urinary pain and turbid.  
- Fatigue is not excited (neurasthenia).  
- Cancer nasopharynx.  

Lotus bud seeds:  

- Fever, thirst.  
- Heart palpitations, anxiety.  
- Vomiting blood.  
- Premature ejaculation.  
- Eyes red and swollen.  
- Difficult to sleep (insomnia).  
- High blood pressure (hypertension).  

Sari Yarn: 

- Sperm night out (sperrnatorrhea).  
- Whitish (leucorrhea).  
- Bleeding such as vomiting blood, dysentery.  
- Frequent urination.  
- Unable to hold urine (enuresis).  

Remptacle: 

- content of excessive bleeding.  
- Excessive menstrual blood.  
- Bleeding during pregnancy.  
- Discharge (lochia) is excessive postpartum.  
- Lower abdominal pain due to blood clots.  
- Dysentery, blood urine.  
- Hemorrhoids, ulceration wet.  

Rhizome:  

- Fever, thirst.  
- Coughing up blood, vomiting blood, nosebleed.  
- Dysentery, blood urine, high blood pressure.  
- Heart disease.  
- Disorders of the stomach.  
- Lack of blood (anemia). 
- Disorders of the menopause (menopause).  
- Neurosis.  

Roots:

  
- Vomiting of blood, nosebleed.  
- Hot and red urine.  
- Coughing up blood, dysentery. Leaves:  
- Fainting due to heat (heat stroke). 
- Diarrhea due to hot or humid. 
- Dizziness, headache.  
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- Bleeding such as nosebleeds, vomiting blood, blood dysentery.  
- Bleeding in women.  

Basic leaf:  

 
- Dysentery bloody, diarrhea. - Babies in the womb is not quiet. Trunk:  
- Heat stroke, fainting.  
- Chest feels depressed because of hot or humid.  
- Diarrhea, vomiting.  
- Whitish.  
 

Interest:  

- Shock (trauma). 
 - Bleeding.  
- Inflammation of purulent skin (impetigo). Flour rhizome:  
- Increases appetite.  
- Agency weaker and less blood.  
- Diarrhea.

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