莲文化（Lotus culture）.docVIP

莲文化（Lotus culture） Lotus body is a treasure, lotus root, leaf, petiole, lotus pistil, lotus (receptacle) medicine, heat and hemostasis; (lotus seed) with Qingxin fire, cardiac step-down effect; lotus seed (nuts) with spleen diarrhea, Yangxin tonifying kidney function. Lotus root is eaten as a vegetable or extract starch (starch). The lotus is one of the ten famous flowers in china. Refers to the original lotus fruit, commonly known as Ripon; after all, generally known as the lotus flower. The mast part of the underground stems called lotus. Lotus is a kind of plant is one of the earliest origin of angiosperms. According to paleobotanists fossil studies confirmed that one hundred and thirty-five million years ago, the distribution has a lotus plants in many places in the northern hemisphere waters. The growth of its time on earth than the emergence of human ancestors (2 million years ago) much earlier. Lotus is the old plant before ice age, and Metasequoia, Ginkgo biloba, China Liriodendron, Sequoia is not equivalent to swallow the ice age glaciers macrophages surviving relict plant representative. It is suitable for water purification, water embellish garden, or potted plants. Lotus seed is rich in nutrition, raw food and cooked food are advised. Lotus can be processed into lotus root starch and candied fruit. The lotus has a sedative effect, often used for soup or preserves, as China folk tonic. The lotus petals and leaves served food. The lotus of each part can be used as medicine. From 1970s onwards, Germany University of Bonn plant engaged in plant classification research group director William Batelot and the leadership, by electron microscope and surface structure of ten thousand kinds of plants were studied. This study finally reveals an interesting phenomenon: pour a few drops of glue on the lotus leaf, the glue will not stick to the leaf, but rolling down and leaving no trace. The surface covered with a thin layer of wax crystal leaves clean, this is the wa