Chinese medicine believes that lotus root is sweet and has the effect of cooling blood and removing blood stasis.
Lotus root contains a lot of minerals such as starch, protein, calcium, iron and phosphorus.
Eating raw lotus root can cool blood and disperse blood stasis, so cooking it can nourish the heart and kidney, in addition to nourishing yin and enriching blood. Therefore, many medical books think that it can supplement the deficiency of the five internal organs, strengthen the body and bones, and lotus root can nourish blood and replenish blood. So the role of lotus root, because it has the function of nourishing yin and enriching blood.
Lotus root is also a crude fiber food.
Lotus root contains a lot of dietary fiber, which can increase gastrointestinal peristalsis and achieve the purpose of defecation. This can indirectly make excessive accumulated substances in the body be discharged from the stool, and also have an indirect weight loss effect.