White lentils are all treasures, and their skins (lentil coats), flowers and leaves can be used as medicine.

lentil coat can strengthen spleen and eliminate dampness, and can be used to treat dysentery, diarrhea, beriberi, edema, etc. Beancurd flower can relieve summer heat and dampness, regulate middle warmer and strengthen spleen, and can be used to treat summer injury, summer heat and dampness, diarrhea, dysentery, leucorrhea with red and white discharge, traumatic injury and swelling. Lentil leaves can clear away summer-heat, promote diuresis, detoxify and reduce swelling, and can be used to treat summer-heat-dampness, vomiting and diarrhea, sores and boils, snake bites and other diseases.

Reminder of eating white lentils

The lectin in white lentils has certain toxicity, so white lentils must be heated and cooked before eating, otherwise, food poisoning such as headache, nausea and vomiting may occur.

In addition, white lentils should not be eaten more. It is recorded in "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica" that white lentils "eat more and stagnate", and if eaten too much, they are prone to abdominal fullness and other discomfort. Therefore, people who are usually deficient in constitution should not eat for a long time.

Baidu Encyclopedia-White Lentils

People's Daily Online-White Lentils are experts in removing damp and heat.