Perennial aquatic herbaceous plant with pink flowers.
It occurs in the Far East in the lakes of the Khan-Kai Plain, along the Ussuri and Zeya rivers.
Medicinal raw materials are rhizomes, petioles and young seedlings.
Rhizomes contain asparagine, petioles and young seedlings – the heart poison nelumbin.
Fruits (seeds), leaves and flowers are widely used in Tibetan and folk medicine in many countries of Southeast Asia as a heart, hemostatic and general tonic. Powders and decoctions of lotus fruits are also recommended for diseases of the spleen. Seeds are considered the most expensive delicacy.