Properties
Lentil tastes sweet, retains stool, is cool, light and causes the formation of wind humor in the body. It eliminates the excessive humor of phlegm and bile in the body. It also cures plethora and fever.
Uses:
1. Flour made of baked lentil and dissolved in the juice extracted from fresh pomegranate, drinking this solution checks the vomit due to all the three humors in the body i.e. phlegm, bile and wind.
2. Pulses cooked from lentil helps in the increased production of mother's milk.
3. Cooked lentils mixed with edible oil cures diarrhea.
4. Giving 1/2 kg of boiled lentil to cow or buffaloes helps in their milk giving capacities.
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