The dry seeds of lentils are mainly white lentils. It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that white lentils can tonify the five internal organs and are mainly used for vomiting. The long-term service is not white, and the atmosphere is good. Solve the poison of wine, dolphins and fish, and all animals and plants. Stop diarrhea, relieve summer heat, warm spleen and stomach, remove damp heat and quench thirst. Tofu flower can also be used as medicine, which is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, relieving summer heat and removing dampness. Lentil leaves contain carotene, lutein and so on. , sweet, flat and slightly toxic.
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There are many ways to eat lentils. Either way, it must be cooked by heating. Only in this way can lectin and hemolysin which are toxic to human body be inactivated. The lentils that cause poisoning have the same characteristics, that is, the color of lentils has not changed completely, and it is difficult to chew and has a strong bean smell. So when cooking lentils, it must be bigger and longer than other vegetables.
The tender and flat pods can be eaten as vegetables. Because of the different colors of pods, they can be divided into three types: white lentils, green lentils and purple lentils. Among them, white lentils are the best, with thick and tender pods and beautiful fragrance. It is appropriate to choose tender pods with bright skin and thick meat and no seeds. If the pod skin is thin, the seeds are obvious, and the pod skin is dull, it means that it is mature and can only be eaten by peeling the seeds.
Lentils can be eaten with cauliflower to invigorate the kidney and spleen; Eat with chickens, replenish essence and marrow, promote blood circulation and regulate menstruation; Eat with old ducks, nourish yin and tonify deficiency, nourish stomach and kidney; Eating with mushrooms can help beauty beauty and prolong life.
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