{"id":911,"date":"2012-11-12T21:24:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=911"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T16:45:15","slug":"lotus-nelumbo-nucifera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"Lotus ~ Nelumbo nucifera"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/bb\/Nelumbo_nucifera_cv_Kinrinren1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"194\" \/>Lotus<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: Nelumbo nucifera<\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Nymphaeceae<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: seeds and root, leaves, sprout<\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: freshwater; native toSingapore<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: root: asparagine, tannin, nelumbine, carotene, thiamine, nicotinic acid, riboflavin, ascorbic acid; leaves: starch, ascorbic acid, asparagine, nelumbine; sprout: calcium, iron<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: sweet, cooling<\/p>\n<p><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: nutritive tonic, aphrodisiac, astringent, haemostatic, nervine, emmenagogue, breast tissue tonic<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>: seeds: cardiac tonic, sedative, strengthens kidneys<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: diarrhea, menorrhagia, impotence, spermatorrhea, venereal diseases, heart weakness, fever, irritability, insomnia, anxiety,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: leucorrhea, bleeding associated with threatened miscarriage, poisoning, dark urine, hematuria<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: decoction: 1 tsp\/cup tid; food: 3 g pwd qd in rice; leaves: 15-30 g qd<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: indigestion, food stagnation, constipation<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: none known<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: http:\/\/www.thedance.com\/herbs\/lotus.htm; http:\/\/www.naturia.per.sg\/buloh\/plants\/lotus.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus Latin name: Nelumbo nucifera Family: Nymphaeceae Part used: seeds and root, leaves, sprout Habitat: freshwater; native toSingapore Main constituents: root: asparagine, tannin, nelumbine, carotene, thiamine, nicotinic acid, riboflavin, ascorbic acid; leaves: starch, ascorbic acid, asparagine, nelumbine; sprout: calcium, iron Energetics: sweet, cooling Main herbal actions: nutritive tonic, aphrodisiac, astringent, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81,297,3,37,97,36,20,163,243,248,247,242,52,90,244,78,19,46,245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphrodisiac","category-astringent","category-breast-tissue","category-chinese-herbs","category-cooling","category-emmenagogue","category-energetics-taste","category-health-conditions","category-hemostatic","category-impotence","category-insomnia","category-irritability","category-menorrhagia","category-nerve","category-nervine","category-spermatorrhea","category-sweet","category-the-way-of-chinese-herbs","category-tonic","category-veneral-diseases","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}