Table of Contents 1 Pinyin 2 Alias of Lentil 3 Tips on the Use of Lentil 4 Nutritional Value of Lentil 5 People Suitable for Lentil 6 Therapeutic Benefits of Lentil 7 Suggestions on the Consumption of Lentil 8 Dictionary of Lentil 8.1 Pinyin 8.2 Alias of Lentil 8.3 Origin 8.4 Proto-morphology 8.5 Habitat and Distribution 8.6 Sexual Properties 8.7 Chemical Constituents 8.8 Pharmacological Actions of Lentil 8.9 Concoction 8.10 Flavors 8.11 Meridian 8.12 Functions and Indications 8.13 Usage and Dosage of Lentil 8.14 Notes 8.15 Prescription 8.16 Discussions of Various Schools 8.17 Remarks Appendices: 1 Formulas of Lentil in Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2 Proprietary Chinese Medicines for Lentil in Traditional Chinese Medicine, 3 Lentil in Ancient Texts * Lentil Drug Instruction 1 Pinyin

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Lentil is a cultivated species of the genus Lentil in the family Leguminosae, and is a perennial or annual twining vine that eats young pods or mature beans.

Lentils contain proteins, carbohydrates, but also contain toxic proteins, lectins and saponins that can trigger hemolysis. So be careful when heating, lentils must be cooked before consumption, otherwise food poisoning may occur.

2 Lentil aliases

moon vegetable, moth-eyebrow beans, eyebrow beans, along the hedge beans, magpie beans, southern lentils, cool diffracted beans, goat's eye beans, puffed skin beans, chayote beans, southern beans, small cutter beans, tree beans, vine beans

3 Tips for use of lentils

50 grams per day

4 Nutritional value of lentils

Lentil nutrients are quite rich in nutrients, including proteins, fats, sugars, calcium, Phosphorus, iron and dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and cyanogenic glycosides, tyrosinase, etc., lentil clothing is particularly rich in B vitamins. In addition, there are phospholipids, sucrose, glucose. In addition, lentils also contain hemagglutinin, which is a protein-like 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 injurious effect on the cells of the body, and so it has a significant role in 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 string, mild and yellowish color, and the spleen is the most suitable.

5 lentil suitable for the crowd

General population can eat.

1. Especially suitable for spleen deficiency, sugar, diet reduction, chronic chronic 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, diet, especially suitable for people eating; especially suitable for cancer patients to eat.

2. But those who suffer from cold and heat, cold people, malaria should not eat.

6 lentil therapeutic efficacy

lentil taste sweet, sex flat, to, stomach meridian,

spleen, and in the middle, beneficial gas, dampness, the effect of summer;

the main treatment of spleen deficiency and dampness, less food loose stools, dampness and turbidity under the injections, the women under the too much, the summer dampness injuries in the middle, vomiting and diarrhea, turn the tendons and other evidence.

7 lentil consumption recommendations

1. Before cooking, cold water should be soaked (or slightly scalded with boiling water) and then fried. Because the white lentil has a blood clotting substances and hemolytic saponin, such as raw food or fried discomfort to eat, 3 to 4 hours after eating some people can cause headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and other toxic reactions.

2. Mature beans can be cooked or made into bean paste filling.

The seeds of lentils are white, black, reddish-brown and several others.

1. white lentils are mainly used in medicine, white lentils also have a certain anti-cancer effect, spleen, qi, dampness, summer heat;

2. black lentils, the ancient name of "magpie beans", is not for medicinal purposes;

3. reddish-brown folk in Guangxi, called the "red snow peas", used as liver, anti-inflammatory drugs, treatment of cataracts in the eye.

8 *Dictionary - Lentil 8.1 Pinyin Name

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8.2 Alias of Lentil

藊 Dou ("Tang Ben Cao"), Nandan Dou ("Yunnan Ben Cao"), Yan Li Dou, Moth Eyebrow Dou ("Compendium"), Liang Yan Dou ("Materia Medica multiplied by ya and half a verse"), Sheep's Eye Bean ("Medicinal Drugs: The Meaning of the Drugs"), Puffed Skin Bean ("Guangzhou Botanical Records"), Chayou Dou ("Jiangsu Phytopharmaceuticals: The History of the Plant), Nandan Dou ("Lu Chuan Ben Cao"), Nandan Dou ("Jiangsu Phytopharmaceutical Records").

8.3 Source

The white seeds of lentils, family Leguminosae. Mature pods are picked around the beginning of winter, dried in the sun, beaten out of the seeds, and then sun-dried until completely dry.

8.4 Proto-morphology

Annual twining herbaceous vine, up to 6 m. 3 compound leaves; leaflets broadly ovate, 5-9 cm long, 6-10 cm wide, apex pointed, base broadly cuneate or truncate, entire, sparsely hairy on both surfaces, lateral leaflets are larger, obliquely ovate; petiole is 4-12 cm long; stipules are tiny, lanceolate. Racemes axillary, usually 2 to 4 clustered at nodes of the inflorescence axis; bracteoles 2, caducous; calyx campanulate, calyx teeth 5, margin densely white pilose; corolla butterfly-shaped, white or lilac, flag petals ovate-elliptic, with 2 appendages on either side of the base and decurrent into 2 ears, pteropetalons obliquely elliptic, keel petals navicular; stamens 10, in bundles of 2; ovary linear, pilose, with glands at the base, stigma capitate, sparsely white short hairs. Pods long ellipsoid, flattened, slightly curved, 5 to 8 cm long, apex with curved beak. Seeds 2 to 5, oblong-oblong, white, black or reddish brown. Flowering period July to August. Fruiting in September.

8.5 Habitat distribution

All are cultivated. Distributed in East China and Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places. Produced in most parts of the country, mainly in Hunan, Anhui, Henan and other places.

8.6 Properties

Dry seeds are flat elliptic or flat ovoid, about 8 to 12 mm long, 6 to 9 mm wide, 4 to 7 mm thick. Surface yellow-white, smooth and glossy, one side of the edge of the semilunar white raised caruncle, accounting for about 1/3 to 1/2 of the circumference, peeled off the sunken umbilicus can be seen, tightly connected to the caruncle of the end of a bead hole, the other end of the seed has a short ridge. The texture is hard, the seed coat is thin and brittle, there are 2 cotyledons inside, fat, yellowish-white, horny. Chewing has a bean-like odor. To full, white color is better.

8.7 Chemical composition

Seeds per 100 grams of protein 23.7 grams, 1.8 grams of fat, 57 grams of carbohydrate, calcium 46 mg, phosphorus 52 mg, iron 1 mg, calcium magnesium phytate 247 mg, pantothenic acid 1,232 micrograms, zinc 2.44 milligrams.

The seeds contain trypsin inhibitor, amylase inhibitor, hemagglutinin A, B. And contains the inhibitory effect on the mouse Columbia SK virus, this active ingredient in the water-soluble macromolecular part and low molecular part of both; also contains stigmasterol, phospholipids (mainly phosphatidylethanolamine), sucrose, cotton seed sugar, fructose, glucose, galactose, fructose, Starch, cyanogenic glycosides, tyrosinase and so on.

Pods contain piperidinic acid 2.

8.8 Pharmacological effects of lentils

lentils contain non-specific agglutinin for human red blood cells (see "vegetable beans"), which has some globulin properties; on cattle, sheep red blood cells and no agglutination. In the lentil can be divided into two different kinds of plant lectins, lectin A insoluble in water, no antitrypsin activity; such as mixed in the food fed to rats, can inhibit its growth, and even cause regional necrosis of the liver; heated to the toxicity of the role of the big see weakened, so the lectin A is a part of the crude lentil powder toxic ingredients. Lectin B is soluble in water, and has the activity of trypsin. Someone measured its molecular weight of 23688, the inhibition of trypsin for non-competitive type. In 15 ~ 18 ℃ (pH 3 ~ 10) can maintain the vitality of more than 30 days. After autoclaved or boiled for 1 hour, it loses 94-86% of its vitality. This trypsin inhibitor, which cannot be broken down by general proteases in vitro and is not easily digested in vivo, prolongs the clotting time of citrated plasma from 20 to 60 seconds at a concentration of 1 mg/0.1 mL due to inhibition of thrombin.

Lentils from India fed to rats have been shown to lower blood glucose and serum cholesterol.

8.9 Concoctions

Raw lentils: picking impurities, placed in boiling water and cook a little, until the seed coat bulging, fluffy to the degree that the fish out, immersed in cold water, remove the skin, dry. Fried lentils: take the net lentil kernel, placed in the pan slightly fried to yellow, slightly scorched to the degree, remove and cool.

8.10 flavor

Sweet, flat.

① "Bielu": "taste sweet, slightly warm."

② "Food Therapy Herbal": "Slightly cold."

③ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Flat, non-toxic."

8.11 Meridian

Into the spleen and stomach meridian.

① "Compendium": "Entering the qi division of Taiyin."

② "Materia Medica": "Entering the qi portion of the foot Taiyin and Yangming meridians."

8.12 Functions and Indications

Strengthening the spleen and harmonizing the middle, eliminating summer heat and dampness. It is used for treating summer dampness, vomiting and diarrhea, spleen deficiency and retching, poor diet and long term leakage, water retention and thirst, red and white leucorrhoea, and children's chancre.

① "Bielu": "the Lord and the lower gas."

② "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": "The main detoxification of all grasses and trees, raw chewing and decoction soup."

③ Monk: "Treatment of cholera vomiting more than the end, and vinegar."

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Tonic five organs."

⑤ Ben Cao Tu Jing: "The main line of wind qi, women's lowering of the belt, and kill the wine poison, but also solve the puffer fish poison."

⑥ "Yunnan Materia Medica": "Treatment of weak spleen and stomach, regurgitation and cold vomiting, prolonged diarrhea, food accumulation and lumps, children's chancre disease."

⑦ "Pinhui Jingyi": "Summer and the middle."

⑧ "Compendium": "stop diarrhea, eliminate summer heat, warm the spleen and stomach, remove dampness and heat, quench thirst."

⑨ Huiyao Medical Mirror: "Raw to clear the summer heat and nourish the stomach, fried to strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea."

8.13 Usage and dosage of lentils

Internal: decoction, 3 to 6 qian; or into pills, bulk.

8.14 Note

① Tao Hongjing: "Those suffering from cold and fever, do not eat."

② "Food Therapy Materia Medica": "Do not eat people suffering from cold."

③ "With the rest of the house diet spectrum": "malaria people avoid."

8.15 prescription

① treatment of weak spleen and stomach, diet and vomiting and diarrhea: white lentils a catty and a half (ginger juice soaked, peeled, subtle), ginseng (remove reeds), Poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, licorice (fried), yam, two catty each, lotus meat (peeled), Platycodon grandiflorus (fried to make dark yellow), Job's tears and coix seed, shrinking the sand nuts, a catty each. The above for the fine powder, each serving two money, jujube soup mix down, children measure the number of years plus or minus service. ("Bureau Square" Sen Ling Baijushan)

② cholera lentil one liter, Elsholtzia one liter. Six liters of water to boil two liters, divided into doses. The same can be said for single-use. ("Thousand Gold Formula")

③ Treatment of thirst and drinking water: white lentil soaked peel, for the end, to smallpox powder juice and honey and pills sycamore size, gold foil for the coat. Each serving two, thirty pills, smallpox juice under the day two service. Avoid BELONGING to wine and color. Next, take kidney nourishing medicine. (Ren Cuntang experience formula)

④ Treatment of edema: lentil three liters, fried yellow, ground into powder. Every morning, afternoon and evening before each meal, adults with three money, children with one money, lampshade soup mixing service. ("Materia Medica")

⑤ Treatment of red and white leucorrhea: white lentils are fried and minced, and two coins are taken with rice drink. ("Inscription Formula of Yong Class")

⑥ Treatment of arsenic poisoning: white lentil is ground in raw form, and the juice is drunk in water. ("Inscription Formula of Yong Class")

(7) Itching and pain in the scabs of sores: Pound lentils and seal them, and the scabs will be worse when they fall off. ("Complementing the deficiency of the elbow")

8.16 Discussions of Various Schools

① "Discussions of Medicinal Properties": "Lentil, specializing in clearing summer heat, so it can harmonize with the middle and stop cholera; it is extremely tonic to the spleen, so it can cure dysentery and remit pus and blood, eliminate water-dampness, and cure heat and excrement."

(7) "Compendium": "hard shell white lentils, its son full, white and slightly yellow, its gas fishy incense, its nature warm and flat, get in the middle and the spleen of the valley. Into the taiyin qi points, the three jiao, can turn clear and drop turbid, so specializing in the treatment of the disease of the central nervous system, eliminating summer heat and dampness and detoxification. Its soft shell and black magpie color, its nature is slightly cool, but available for food, but also adjust the spleen and stomach."

⑧ "Materia Medica": "Hongjing cloud, lentils with cold and heat can not eat. Cover refers to typhoid fever, external evil party blaze, can not use this tonic ear. If the spleen and stomach deficiency and injury to food and fatigue fever and cold, do not avoid."

④ "Drugs": "lentils, taste sweet and flat and not sweet, gas fragrance and not tampering, mild and yellow color, and the spleen is the most compatible. The main treatment of cholera and vomiting, intestinal tinnitus and diarrhea, hot days and summer, alcohol poisoning stomach, and good crystal for the benefit of qi. And take its color white, odor and clear, with clear lung gas. Therefore, the cloud clear to nourish the lungs, lungs clear gas smooth. Downstream through the large intestine, can be clear and turbid, good treatment of intestinal red long diarrhea, clear gas subsidence, this visceral deficiency to supplement the method of viscera also."

⑤ "New Series of Materia Medica": "white lentil, taste light gas thin, single-use no work, must be with the gas tonic medicine *** with the best. Or that the white lentil is not solid tire medicine, the former an abortion medicine often used why? Cover the tire of the uneasy, due to the gas of the uneasiness, white lentil is the most good and in the, so use it to and fetal gas ear, tire and safe, said can also be safe tire. The only way to use this flavor is to place the baby in a stable position, but I have never seen anyone who can do so.

⑥ "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": "How does lentil tonify the spleen? The cover of the spleen likes sweetness. Lentils get the taste of sweet, so it can be beneficial to the spleen and also; spleen and can be comfortable, lentils endowed with gas fragrance, so it can be in the spleen and Kshu also; spleen bitter wet and like dry, lentils get the nature of the temperature, so it can be in the spleen and Kshu also. Spleen soil is solid, the waterway from the pass, San Jiao not mixed, and the evil of summer dampness of the Taiyin, since Erk eliminated, and can be re-hidden in the spleen, and thirst, diarrhea of the disease. But more food congestion, do not know."

8.17 Remarks

The seeds of lentil are white, black, reddish-brown and so on, mainly white lentil is used in medicine; black look at the ancient name of "magpie beans", not for medicinal use; reddish-brown people in Guangxi folk called "red snow peas", used as a liver cleansing, anti-inflammatory drugs, treatment of cataracts in the eyes.

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