WHITE LOTUS

 

 

The rhizomes is cooling, sweet, bitter and tonic and is useful in Diarrhoea, dysentery, dipsia and generl debility. The flowers are astringetn and cardiotonic. The seeds are sweet, cooling, constipating, aphrodisiac, stomachic and restorative.It has found uses both as a culinary delight and starchy food staple as well as being used internally as a treatment for gastrointestinal disorders and jaundice.

OTHER NAME : NYMPHAEA LOTUS, NYMPHAEA NOUCHALI, WHITE WATER LILLY, NYMPHAEACEAE.