The Sacred Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) possesses great significance in Eastern religion. Apart from its majestic beauty, the Nelumbo nucifera Lotus is held as a sacred and beneficial plant.

The Sacred Pink Lotus is one of the world's most celebrated flowers. All parts of the Sacred Pink Lotus are used for their astringent, cardiotonic, febrifuge, hypotensive, resolvent, stomachic, styptic, tonic and vasodilator properties.

The flower of the Sacred Lotus was immortalized in Homer's “The Odyssey,” in which Ulysses and his crew come ashore on the Island of the Lotus-Eaters.
 
The tubers that form at the bottom of the plant in the winter were and are commonly used as food my Native American tribes and in Japan.