Meibou: is a legume bean seeds, spherical or flat round, slightly larger than soybeans, there are also shaped like cashews, also known as rice cowpea, rice beans, rice beans, sweet beans, white beans, etc.. It belongs to dry beans and products, distributed in Hebei, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Yunnan and other provinces in China, and there are also products in Vietnam. Eyebrow bean is the customary name of Cantonese people. Li Shizhen said, "This bean can be vegetables, fruit, grain, spare the best, is the top of the beans.

Meibou is sweet, flat, salty, non-toxic, and enters the spleen and kidney meridians;

Meibou has the effect of strengthening the spleen, quenching thirst, tonifying the kidney, generating essence, and the five organs, regulating the camp and the guards, and regulating the middle and benefiting the qi;

To treat thirst, thirst; external use for mumps.

The general public can eat

1. suitable for kidney deficiency, diarrhea, frequent urination, men spermatorrhea, women with lower back disease; especially diabetes, kidney deficiency patients better;

2. eyebrow beans are eaten more than the nature of stagnation, so those who have stagnation of qi should be careful to eat eyebrow beans.

Alternatively: lentils Alias: beans, along the hedge beans, fire sickle beans, magpie beans, moth and eyebrow beans, eyebrow beans, white beans, puffed beans.

"Famous Doctors Other Records", the original name of the bean, listed as the middle product. Su Song said: "spreading and up, large leaves and fine flowers, flowers have purple and white color, pods born under the flowers. In fact, there are also two kinds of black and white, the white one is warm and the black one is small cold, into the medicine when the white one." The Compendium of Materia Medica will be included in the bean and pea category of the Department of Cereals. Li Shizhen said: "This is flat, pod-shaped flat." Lentils are planted in February, spreading and entangled. Leaves as large as a cup, grouped and pointed, its flower like a small moth, winged tail-shaped, its pods where more than ten kinds, or long or group, or as a dragon's claw, tiger's claw, or as a pig's ear, knife and sickle, a variety of different, they are all tired into branches." "There are four colors of seeds, black and white and red spots, and one kind of pod is hard and inedible. But the beans are thick and round and white in color can be used as medicine." According to the above, and refer to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" with pictures, it can be seen that nowadays the white lentil medicine, with the ancient records in line.

Effects: Strengthening the spleen and harmonizing the middle, eliminating heat and dampness.

Attacks: treating summer-dampness vomiting and diarrhea, vomiting and reversal of spleen deficiency, eating less and having long leakage, stopping water and thirst, reddish-white leucorrhoea, and children's chancre.

Taste and flavor: sweet, flat.

①Bei Lu: "Sweet in flavor, slightly warm."

② "Food Therapy Materia Medica": "Slightly cold."

③ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": flat, non-toxic. Into the spleen, stomach meridian.

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

②Ben Cao Jing Shu: into the qi part of the foot Taiyin and Yangming meridians.

Use and dosage: internal: decoction, 3 to 6 Qian; or into the pill, bulk

The use of medication contraindication: ① Tao Hongjing: those who suffer from cold and fever, should not eat.

② "Food Therapy Materia Medica", people suffering from cold should not eat.

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