Lotus Leaf is the dried leaf of Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. (Fam. Nymphaeaceae).

Action: To relieve summer-heat, to invigorate the spleen function of the spleen and arrest bleeding by reducing heat in blood.

Folium Nelumbinis (carbonized): To arrest bleeding, remove blood stasis.

Indications: ummer-heat with dire thirst; diarrhea caused by summer-damp or hypofunction of the spleen; spitting of blood, epistaxis, hematochezia and abnormal uterine bleeding caused by heat in blood.

Folium Nelumbinis (carbonized): Various kind of bleeding and massive postpartion hemorrhage.