Lentils, Lablab purpureus (Linn.) Sweet, generic nameoHanoHanoHan beans, alias fire sickle lentils, vine beans, along the hedge beans, magpie beans, check beans, moon vegetable, dicotyledonous plant order. There are also many species, such as: white lentils, purple lentils, oil beans, snake beans, pig's ear beans (shaped like pig's ears). It is a perennial, twining vine in the genus Lentil, family Leguminosae. It is a kind of legume.

The world's tropical and subtropical regions are cultivated, lentil flowers have two kinds of red and white, pods have green and white, light green, pink or purple and other colors. Young pods for vegetable food, white flowers and white seeds into medicine, conducive to the removal of summer dampness and evil, spleen and diarrhea effect, while the lentil also has a significant role in subsiding tumors.

The white seeds or pods of lentil, a herbaceous vine plant of the legume family. Also known as the southern lentil, along the hedge beans, Emei beans, goat's eye beans, vine beans, black, white and other color differences. Cultivated in East China, Central and South China, Southwest China, Hebei, Liaoning and other places. Mature pods are harvested in winter, dried in the sun, the pod skin removed, and the seeds collected and fried yellow or slightly boiled; or the immature pods are picked in the fall and used fresh.

[Properties] Sweet flavor, slightly warm. It can strengthen the spleen and remove dampness.

[Reference]Containing protein, fat, sugar, phosphorus, calcium, iron, zinc, vitamin B1.B2 and niacin, pantothenic acid, soy sterols, phospholipids, cyanogenic glycosides, hemocyte coagulant and other components.

[Usage] It is used for spleen deficiency with dampness, tiredness and fatigue, loose stools with little food, or edema; women with spleen deficiency with diarrhea; summer-dampness as a disease, spleen and stomach disharmony, vomiting and diarrhea.

[Usage] Decocted in soup, powdered, or cooked.

Lentils, leguminous annual herbs, stems trailing, leaflets lanceolate, flowers white or purple, pods long oval, flattened, slightly curved. Young pods are common vegetables, depending on the color of the flowers are divided into two categories of red and white flowers, pods of the color of green and white, light green, pink and purple and other colors, smooth and shiny, hard, thin and brittle seed coat, chewing beans, full of particles for the best. The main use of white lentils in medicine. Lentils contain saponins and hemocyte lectin can lead to food poisoning, cooking must be done very cooked side.

The nutritional composition of lentils is quite rich, including protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium and dietary fiber, vitamin A original, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and cyanogenic glycosides, tyrosinase, etc., lentil clothing B vitamins are particularly rich. In addition, there are phospholipids, sucrose, glucose.

Lentils taste sweet, flat, to, stomach meridian, gas fragrance and not string, mild and yellowish color, and the spleen is the most compatible. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen, harmonizing the middle, benefiting the qi, dissolving dampness and eliminating summer heat. It is used for treating spleen deficiency and dampness, loose stools with little food, dampness and turbidity injections, excessive discharge in women, summer dampness injuring the middle, vomiting and diarrhea, and turning tendons.

Additionally, lentils contain hemagglutinin, which is a kind of protein substance that can increase the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid, inhibit the immune response and the movement of leukocytes and lymphocytes, so it can activate the lymphocytes of patients with tumors to produce lymphotoxin, which has a non-specific injury to the cells of the body, and so it has a significant effect on the abatement of tumors. Tumor patients are recommended to eat lentils frequently, which has certain auxiliary therapeutic effects. The lentil gas is fragrant and not stringy, mild and yellowish in color, and most compatible with the spleen.

Good quality lentil individual fat, pod length of 10cm or so, skin color tender, no insects without injury. Lentils in the 0 ~ 5 ℃ low-temperature storage, can maintain a very good appearance, a week or so out of cooking, there will be uncooked bean kernel odor, and this taste will increase with the number of days of storage and become thicker, affecting the flavor of cooking. Therefore, lentils do not have a long storage period and should be consumed as soon as possible after purchase.

Consumption of contraindications

The general public can eat. Particularly suitable for spleen deficiency, sugar, diet reduction, chronic prolonged ejaculation, as well as women's spleen deficiency, children's noma (simple dyspepsia) consumption; at the same time, suitable for summer colds and dampness, acute gastroenteritis, dyspepsia, summer fever, headache, dizziness, nausea, irritability, thirst, pain in the heart and abdomen, eating and drinking people eat; especially suitable for cancer patients to eat.

It is not suitable for people who suffer from cold and fever, people who suffer from cold, and people who suffer from malaria.

Eating safety

Lentils contain saponins and hemagglutinins can lead to food poisoning, cooking must be done very cooked.