Mei beans are synonymous with white lentils, lentils ("Tang Materia Medica"), southern lentils ("Materia Medica of Southern Yunnan"), along the fence beans, moth beans ("Compendium"), Liangyan beans ("Compendium") "Ben Cao Cheng Ya Ban Gao"), sheep's eye beans ("Pharmaceutical Meanings"), puffed beans ("Guangzhou Flora"), tea beans ("Jiangsu Herbal Medicine"), southern beans ("Luchuan Materia Medica"), Small sword beans, tree beans ("Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine"), vine beans ("Chinese Medicinal Plants Illustrated Book"), guillotine blade (shaped like a guillotine). There are also areas in the north called air beans.

English name: Purple Haricot

Family name: Leguminosae, subfamily Papilioideae

Raw lentils: remove impurities and boil briefly in boiling water. When the seed coat is bulging and soft, take it out, immerse it in cold water, peel off the skin and dry it in the sun.

Stir-fried lentils: Take the clean lentil kernels, put them in a pot and stir-fry until they are yellow and slightly burnt, take them out and let them cool.

Sweet, flat.

①"Bielu": "Sweet, slightly warm."

②"Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica": "Slightly cold."

③"Rihuazi" "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Plain, non-toxic."

Enter the spleen and stomach meridians.

① "Compendium": "Enter Taiyin Qi."

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Enter Taiyin and Yangming Meridian Qi."

< p> Strengthen the spleen and harmonize the middle, relieve heat and reduce dampness. It can be used to treat vomiting and diarrhea caused by summer heat dampness, spleen deficiency and vomiting, prolonged diarrhea after eating less, quenching thirst due to water cessation, redness and white discharge, and malnutrition in children.

1. Strengthen the spleen and remove dampness. It mainly treats spleen deficiency and dampness, less food and loose stools; dampness and turbidity cause excessive vaginal discharge in women.

2. Removing dampness and relieving summer heat. Used for heat-induced dampness injuries, vomiting, diarrhea, tendons and other symptoms.

3. Treat edema, arsenic poisoning and bacillary dysentery.

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③Meng Shen: "To treat cholera where vomiting is not enough, take it with vinegar."

④"Rihuazi Materia Medica": "To nourish the five internal organs."

< p>⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is mainly responsible for the promotion of social qi, and it can be taken off by women. It also kills alcohol poison and relieves puffer fish poison."

⑥ "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Treatment of weak spleen and stomach, nausea and coldness Vomiting, persistent diarrhea, accumulation of lumps after eating, and malnutrition in children. "

⑦ "Pinhui Jingyao": "Relieve heat and moderate heat" "

⑧ "Outline": "Stop." It can relieve diarrhea, relieve heat, warm the spleen and stomach, remove dampness and heat, and relieve thirst. "Huiyue Medical Mirror": "Use it raw to clear away heat and nourish the stomach, and stir-fry it to strengthen the spleen and relieve diarrhea."

Oral administration: decoction, 15-30 grams; or take into pills or powder.