Description:

炒制 白扁豆（8 oz/包）

为豆科植物扁豆的白色成熟种子。

性味

甘，微温。

经脉

归脾经、胃经。

主治

健脾化湿，和中消暑。用于脾胃虚弱，食欲不振，大便溏泻，白带过多，暑湿吐泻，胸闷腹胀。 炒扁豆：健脾化湿。用于脾虚泄泻，白带过多。

【食疗方】

山药扁豆粥

• ①原料 淮山药30克，扁豆10克，粳米100克。将山药洗净去皮切片，扁豆煮半熟加粳米，山药煮成粥。每日2次，早、晚餐食用。
• ②功效 肝癌食疗方——具有健脾化湿，用于晚期肝癌病人脾虚，泄泻等症。

(dolichos lablab bean, hyacinth bean)

The preliminary pharmacological studies revealed that Dolichos lablab possessed antidiabetic, antiinflammatory, analgesic, antioxidant, cytotoxic, hypolipidemic, antimicrobial, insecticidal, hepatoprotective, antilithiatic, antispasmodic effects and also used for the treatment of iron deficiency anemia.

Lablab is a mature white seed of a legume. They are also called dolichos bean, seim bean (India), Egyptian bean, bonavist bean/pea, dolico lablab, fagiolo indiano, and hyacinth bean.

Traditional Chinese medical description:
Their taste is sweet and effects are slightly warming.
Lablab enters the meridians of the spleen and stomach. Indications include weak spleen and stomach dampness, and heat stroke. It is used for poor appetite, loose stools, excessive leucorrhea, vomiting and diarrhea in summer, chest tightness and abdominal distension.

Recipe:

Yam Lentil Porridge
Ingredients:
Huai Yam (dioscurea) 30 grams, lablab 10 grams, japonica rice 100 grams.
Wash and peel the yam and slice it, lentils are boiled and half-cooked, add the japonica rice, and the yam is boiled into porridge. Dosage: 2 times a day, breakfast and dinner. Possible use: “Efficacy Liver Cancer Diet Therapy-with spleen and dampness, used for spleen deficiency and diarrhea embolism in patients with advanced liver cancer.”