The efficacy and function of lotus root starch, what kind of people can eat lotus root starch and how to eat it.
March 8 news: Lotus root starch is a traditional nourishing food with a long reputation. Lotus root powder has high nutritional value and good medicinal effect. It can be eaten after being made into instant food, which is delicious and suitable for all ages. No wonder it was widely praised as soon as it went public. It is a gluten-free powder, mixed with boiled lotus root powder water, ground with dried lotus root, and used as thickener in China and Japanese cuisine. Lotus root starch is suitable for the general population, especially for the elderly, women and children, and the infirm. It is especially suitable for patients with high fever, hematemesis, hypertension, liver disease, anorexia, iron deficiency anemia and malnutrition. The therapeutic effect and function of lotus root starch is sweet, flat and raw, and can be eaten. Mainly used for treating heat thirst, removing blood stasis and promoting granulation. Cooked lotus root is warm and sweet, beneficial to the stomach and spleen, nourishing blood and tonifying, and stopping diarrhea; Indications: cough due to lung heat, dysphoria and thirst, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, loss of appetite and various blood syndromes. 1, clearing heat and cooling blood: lotus root is cold, which has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, and can be used to treat heatstroke; Lotus root is sweet and light, which is especially beneficial to people with fever, thirst, epistaxis and hemoptysis. 2, laxative, spleen appetizer: Lotus root contains mucin and dietary fiber, which can be combined with cholate in the human body, cholesterol and triglycerides in food, so that it is discharged from feces, thereby reducing the absorption of lipids. Lotus root gives off a unique fragrance, and also contains tannin, which has certain functions of invigorating spleen, stopping diarrhea, stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, stimulating appetite and strengthening the body, and is beneficial to the recovery of people with poor appetite. 3. Nourishing blood and promoting granulation: Lotus root has high nutritional value, is rich in trace elements such as iron and calcium, and is rich in plant protein, vitamins and starch, which has obvious functions of invigorating qi and blood and enhancing human immunity. Therefore, Chinese medicine calls it: the main tonic, qi; 4, hemostasis and blood stasis: Lotus root contains a lot of tannic acid, which has the effect of contracting blood vessels and can be used to stop bleeding. Lotus root can also cool blood and disperse blood. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can stop bleeding without leaving blood stasis, which is a good diet for fever. How to eat lotus root starch In order to thicken the lotus root starch, it is best to add a small amount of warm water to melt the lotus root starch first, then stir it evenly, and add boiling water while stirring (remember, it must be boiled). The color of lotus root powder will change rapidly with the addition of boiling water, and finally it will become a light and transparent gel, like agate jelly. It should be noted that the order of the two waters cannot be reversed, the first time is cold boiled water, and the second time is boiled water.