According to the Pharmacopoeia

This product is the dried mature seeds of lentil Dolichos lablab L., family Leguminosae. Mature fruits are harvested in the fall and winter, dried in the sun, the seeds taken out, and then dried in the sun.

Characteristics

This product is flat oval or flat ovoid, 8-13mm long, 6-9mm wide, about 7mm thick, the surface of light yellowish white or yellowish, smooth, slightly glossy, one side of the edge of the white eyebrow raised caruncle. The texture is hard. Seed coat thin and brittle, cotyledons 2, fat, yellowish white. Slight gas, light flavor, chewing with a soybean smell.

Sexual Flavor and Meridian

Sweet, slightly warm. Attributed to the spleen, stomach meridian.

Functions and Indications

Strengthening the spleen, resolving dampness, harmonizing the middle and eliminating summer heat. For weak spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, loose stools, excessive leucorrhea, summer dampness and diarrhea, chest tightness and abdominal distension. Stir-frying white lentils to strengthen the spleen and resolve dampness. Used in spleen deficiency and diarrhea, excessive leucorrhea.

Usage and Dosage

9~15g

Storage

Store in a dry place to prevent moths.

White lentil effect

1, white lentils can supplement nutrition

White lentil is a kind of nutritional value is particularly high beans ingredients, can provide the human body with a large amount of protein and fat and sugar and calcium and phosphorus and other nutrients, in addition to vitamins and glycosides and enzymes are the most important presence of white lentils, usually people eat white lentils to meet the body’s need for different nutrients, but also promote the body’s metabolism, to improve the quality of people’s bodies.

2, white lentil can be anti-virus

Antivirus is one of the important role of the white lentil, it contains some active water-soluble substances, these substances into the human body can inhibit the activity of viruses in the body, inhibit the growth of viruses, usually eaten can play a significant role in the anti-virus, can prevent the occurrence of a variety of viral diseases.

3, white lentil can lower blood sugar

Lowering blood sugar is also one of the important role of white lentils, it contains amylase can inhibit the body’s absorption of sugar, but also to speed up the body’s sugar metabolism and decomposition, you can let the high blood sugar down, and white lentils can also improve the body’s pancreatic function, to promote the secretion of insulin, which is the important reason why the white lentils can lower blood sugar.

Nutritional value of white lentils

White lentils are rich in nutrition, every 100 grams of white lentil grain containing 1364 kilojoules of calories, 25.3 grams of protein, 0.4 grams of fat, 30 micrograms of carotene, thiamine 0.26 milligrams, 0.45 milligrams of riboflavin, 2.6 milligrams of nicotinic acid, 1.86 milligrams of vitamin E, 4.39 milligrams of potassium, 2.3 milligrams of sodium and so on.

The protein of white lentils contains lysine, methionine, leucine, phenylalanine, threonine and other essential amino acids. The amount of protein in white lentils is more than twice as much as that of wheat, and the content of amino acids required by the human body is not only rich but also balanced compared with that of wheat and other legumes, thus making it a high-quality plant protein.

In addition to this, white lentils also contain some rare free amino acids, compared with other beans, beans in the anti-nutritional factors in the content of lower, better digestion and absorption performance.

Warm tips

The medicinal value of white lentils is very high, but it is also very delicate to take. The lectins in white lentils are toxic, so white lentils must be heated and cooked before eating, otherwise, there may be headaches, nausea, vomiting and other food poisoning phenomena.

In addition, white lentils should not be eaten more, the “Materia Medica” recorded white lentils “more food congestion,” eating too much easy to appear abdominal distension and other discomforts. Therefore, the ordinary body cold people should not eat for a long time.