Hindu Lotus Leaf

Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Fujian, Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei.

Often folds into half-round or folding fan-shape, when flattened it has a semi-round shape, 20~50cm in diameter, entire or slightly wavy. Upper surface is dark green or yellowish-green, relatively rough; lower surface is pale grayish-brown, relatively smooth, with 21~22 thick veins that spread from the center to around the sides; center has a raised base of leaf stem. Brittle texture, easily broken. faintly aromatic odor, slightly bitter taste.

Superior medicinal material has large leaf, clean, green color.

Bitter; neutral.

Clears heat, resolves summer heat, sending up the lucid yang, cools blood, stops blood. Apply to constant thirst due to summer hygrosis, diarrhea due to summer hygrosis, diarrhea due to deficiency of spleen, haematemesis and epistaxis due to blood-heat, hematochezia and metrorrhagia and metrostaxis.

He ye charcoal: cleans the He ye, use the calcinations way to calcine He ye. Astrings, resolves stasis, stops blood; apply to variable types of hemorrhagic disease and postpartum anemic fainting.