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Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis helps in inducing abortion, provide treatment for headache. Young leaves are sometimes used as a spinach substitute. Flowers can also be made into a kind of pickle or used as a purple dye for colouring foods such as preserved fruits and cooked vegetables. Root is edible but very fibrousy. Its also good for hair treatment. The leaves and flowers are beaten into a paste and poulticed onto cancerous swellings and mumps. The leaves are anodyne, aperient, emollient and laxative. A decoction is used as a lotion in the treatment of fevers.

Chemical Constituents and Components : Main chemical constitutes are nelumbine, nuciferine, dehydronuciferine, ß-sitosterol, asparagine, nelumboside, lotusine, neferine, palmitic acid, nicotinic acid, glucose and amino acids.

Action :
Polysaccharides: 1. It significantly suppresses activated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) proliferation. 2. It reduces blood sugar level and increases the glucose tolerance in the body. 3. It exhibits strong free radical scavenging activity. 4. It significantly lowers the normal body temperature and yeast provoked an elevation of body temperature. 5. It suppresses T-cell proliferation. Saponins: 1. It significantly reduces the level of blood triglycerides. 2. It reduces the high blood sugar level to normal without altering the insulin concentration. 3. It inhibits glucose absorption by suppressing the transfer of glucose from the stomach to the small intestine and by inhibiting the glucose transport system at the small intestinal brush border.

Curing Diseases:1. It is useful in vomiting, dysentery, cholera, diarrhea, ringworm affection and dyspepsia.
2. It is used in fever, intermittent fever, cough, burning sensation, dysuria and hyperdipsia.
3. It is helpful against hemorrhoids, haemoptysis, menorrhagia, inflammation, bleeding piles and leucorrhoea.
4. It is also useful in skin diseases, leprosy and pruritus.

Research Information: Hydro alcoholic extract of Nelumbo nucifera seeds is a potent antioxidant. It exhibites strong free radical scavenging activity. (Ref. Rai, Sujay and et.al., Antioxidant activity of Nelumbo nucifera (sacred lotus) seeds, J Ethnopharmacol. 2005 Oct 17;16239089)

Possible Combinations: Nelumbo nucifera + berberis aristata + santalum album (prevent pimples and acne)