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荷葉 Heye

Chinese Name 荷葉
Chinese Pinyin Heye
English Name Hindu Lotus Leaf
Latin Pharmaceutical Name Nelumbinis Folium
Category Leaves
Origin The dried leaves of Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.(Nymphaeaceae)
Production Regions Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Fujian, Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei.
Macroscopic Features 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.
Quality Requirements Superior medicinal material has large leaf, clean, green color.
Properties Bitter; Neutral.
Functions 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.
Processed Form 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.
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