Lentil seeds contain vitamin B1, vitamin C, carotene, protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, calcium magnesium phytate, pantothenic acid, zinc and other nutrients, as well as trypsin inhibitor, amylase inhibitor, hemoglobin A, B, as well as soy stanols, phospholipids, sucrose, raffinose, fructose, fructose, starch, cyanogenic glycosides, tyrosinase and so on. The function of beans and clothes of lentil is to neutralize dampness, eliminate summer heat and detoxification, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and stop diarrhea and dysentery; the flower of lentil can clear summer heat and dampness, and cure dysentery and pus and blood. Lentil can cure summer dampness vomiting and diarrhea, spleen deficiency and vomiting, eating less and long time leakage, water stopping thirst, red and white belt, children's chancre.

Dried lentil seeds are mainly white lentils in medicine, the herb compendium in: white lentils can complement the five organs, the main treatment of vomiting. Long service head is not white, line wind qi, treatment of women under the belt. Solve the poison of wine, dolphin fish poison, solve all the morning wood poison. Stop dysentery, eliminate summer heat, warm the spleen and stomach, remove dampness and heat, quench thirst. Lentil flowers can also be used in medicine, its taste sweet, nature flat, with the spleen and stomach, summer heat and dampness effect, for the treatment of dysentery, diarrhea, prickly white with discharge and so on.

Lentil leaves contain carotenoids and lutein, taste sweet, sexuality flat, a small poison, can treat diarrhea and cramps, sores, bruises and wounds. Lentil clothes to strengthen the spleen, dampness. Lentil root can cure blood, hemorrhoids, gonorrhea. Lentils also have a contraceptive effect.