The efficacy and function of lentil flower

Lentil flowers are a food that can be made into medicine, so eating it can help treat some conditions. In daily life, as long as these foods can be made into medicine for people to eat, the nutritional value of these foods is very high. In addition, each food has its own unique effects and functions. This is one of the reasons why we distinguish them. Therefore, it is very important to understand these characteristics of food.

Only if you have a clear understanding of food, it will be very convenient to make and eat it. This is true no matter what type of food it is, for example, the same goes for lentil flowers. Before eating them, you need to understand their properties and characteristics. So what are the effects and functions of lentil flowers?

Dietary value

Lentil flowers contain protein, vitamins &, vitamins' and other ingredients. Lentil flowers are cold in nature and sweet in taste. They have the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, relieving heat and dampness, stopping diarrhea, and stopping leukorrhea. It can be used for vomiting and diarrhea due to summer heat and dampness, vomiting and retching due to spleen deficiency, long-term diarrhea due to poor appetite, leucorrhea, water retention and thirst, dysentery, and infantile malnutrition. Modern pharmacological research shows that lentil flower can treat bacterial dysentery. The single prescriptions for the diseases treated by lentil flower include:

Strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea: use 10g of lentil flower and 30g of orange peel, add water to boil, and drink as tea. [3]

Strengthen the spleen, clear away heat and eliminate dampness: use 9g each of lentil flower and white cardamom flower, 30g fresh lotus leaf, add water and boil, and drink as tea.

Uterine bleeding and excessive leucorrhea: use 6g of white lentil flower, 12g of cuttlebone, and 15g of cockscomb, add water and decoct.

Tonify Qi and invigorate the spleen, harmonize the stomach, eliminate dampness, relieve restlessness and quench thirst: use 15g of white lentil flower and 50g of polished rice to cook into porridge for consumption.

Clear the lungs and relieve heat: use 6g each of fresh honeysuckle, green loofah peel, fresh bamboo leaves, green watermelon rind, and fresh lotus leaves, and 1 fresh lentil flower, add water, simmer for 5-10 minutes, and drink warm.

Drug value

Treat bacillary dysentery. 100g dried white lentil flowers, made into 100% decoction. The oral dosage is calculated as 0.5-1 ml per kilogram of body weight each time, once every 6 hours, and a course of treatment is 7 days. 13 cases were observed. After 3-7 days of treatment, 7 cases were cured (clinical symptoms disappeared and stool culture was negative for two consecutive times), 3 cases improved (clinical symptoms partially disappeared or alleviated), and 3 cases were ineffective. No side effects were observed during the treatment. Experiments have shown that a decoction of lentil flowers containing 62.5 mg of crude drug per milliliter can inhibit the growth of Shigella sonnei and Shigella flexneri in a test tube.

Drying of medicinal materials: The flowers are flat irregular triangles. The lower part has a green-brown bell-shaped calyx with 5 calyx teeth and is covered with short white hairs on the outside. There are 5 wrinkled, yellow-white or yellow-brown petals with veins. The unopened flower is covered by the standard petal, which folds outward after opening. The wing petals are located on both sides, and the keel petals are sickle-shaped; there are 10 stamens, 9 of which are united at the base; there is a yellow-green columnar pistil inside, which is curved and has fine white hairs visible at the tip. Soft and light. It has a slight fragrance and a light taste. The best ones are large, white and dry.

The above introduces the effects and functions of lentil flowers. It turns out that eating lentil flowers can clear the lungs. If eaten in summer, it can help us relieve heat. Eating food made from lentil flowers can help us replenish the protein, vitamins and other nutrients needed by the body. Medicine made from edible lentil flowers can be used to treat bacterial dysentery.