Tea beans are lentils, and proper nouns include beans, southern lentils, Emei beans and tea beans. This is the seed of leguminous lentil. Generally speaking, mature pods are picked, dried, seeded and then dried at the beginning of winter.

Has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating middle warmer, relieving summer heat and removing dampness. Lentils contain protein (22.7%), fat (1.8%) and carbohydrates (57%). Calcium, phosphorus, iron, phytic acid, magnesium, pantothenic acid, zinc and other substances.

Lentils can be divided into red flowers and white flowers according to the color of flowers. The colors of pods are green and white, light green, pink and purple. At present, the main cultivated varieties are Huazi Xiaobaibian, Zhuxuebian, Red Phnom Penh, Baihua Daibian and Dabaobian. It is widely planted all over the country.

The seed of lentil contains vitamin B 1, vitamin C, carotene, protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, calcium magnesium phytic acid, pantothenic acid, zinc and other nutrients, as well as trypsin inhibitor, amylase inhibitor, hemagglutinin A and B, as well as stigmasterol, phospholipid, sucrose, raffinose, stachyose, glucose and zinc.

The beans and clothing of lentils are used to neutralize dampness, relieve summer heat and detoxify, strengthen the spleen and stomach and stop diarrhea; The flowers of lentils can clear away heat and damp.

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