Clinically, it is often used to treat spleen and stomach weakness such as loss of appetite, loose stool, vomiting and diarrhea in summer, chest tightness and abdominal distension. Fried white lentils are mostly used to treat diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and excessive leucorrhea. Clinically, fried white lentils are often used to treat women with excessive leucorrhea (that is, abnormal leucorrhea), and the effect of invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness is very good.
Li Shizhen thinks: Hard-shelled white lentils are full, white, yellowish, fishy, warm, almost neutral, and the valley of the spleen. Entering the qi of the sun, dredging the triple energizer can clear turbidity, so it specializes in treating diseases in the middle part of uterus. Women with excessive leucorrhea may wish to cook porridge with white lentils.
Precautions for eating:
Immature fresh lentils are seasonal foods eaten daily in summer, but lentils contain saponins and alkaloids, namely hemagglutinin and hemolysin, which are toxic substances. After eating, dizziness and headache may occur in light cases, and nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, coagulation or hemolysis may occur in severe cases. So when you eat it, you must fry it thoroughly or cook it thoroughly, or put it in boiling water first. Stewed lentils are the safest way to eat. Never eat them half-cooked.
Lentils should not be eaten more, because eating too much is easy to stagnate qi, which hinders the absorption of the spleen and stomach and produces bloating. In addition, lentils are high-purine foods, which are easy to cause the increase of blood uric acid and induce or aggravate the formation of urinary calculi, so people with urinary calculi should eat them carefully.
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