White lentils can be fried and eaten, or they can be ground into powder and taken orally. Usually, they are eaten in porridge, soup or water. But remember to soak the white lentils first.
Fried white lentils
Ingredients: 30 grams of white lentils with shells, parched.
Practice: after breaking, add water, boil for about 30 minutes, and finally add brown sugar to taste.
Efficacy: White lentils can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and have the effect of relieving summer heat. Boiled water after burning can be used for vomiting and diarrhea in summer heat, and is suitable for people with symptoms such as indigestion, diarrhea and loose stool.
White lentil yam porridge
Materials:
30g of white lentils, 30g of fresh iron yam, 0g of rice100g, and 3 red dates.
Practice: After washing the white lentils, soak them in appropriate amount of water for at least 4 hours. Wash, peel and dice the iron stick yam. Boil the white lentils with the water soaked before, turn to slow fire for 30 minutes, and then add the iron stick yam diced, rice and red dates. Bring to a boil with strong fire, and turn to slow fire until the porridge is cooked.
Efficacy: this porridge is crystal clear, smooth in taste, has that efficacy of tonify the spleen and stomach, harmonizing the middle energizer and stopping diarrhea, and is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, chronic diarrhea and poor appetite.
White lentil and chestnut porridge
Materials:
White lentils12g, chestnuts10g, japonica rice 24g, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Practice: Cook porridge together and add appropriate amount of brown sugar when the porridge is cooked.
Efficacy: "Materia Medica Seeking Truth" records that chestnuts can be used for "diarrhea due to weak waist and feet and insufficient stomach gas." White lentils and chestnuts are used together, which is suitable for people with spleen deficiency and diarrhea, thinness and fatigue.