Lentils

Use lentils, its cultivation and use

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Botanical characteristics of lentils

Lentil is an annual plant with a taproot meter length. Direct or polytelis low stem are complex, and once the leaves are on petioles. At the end of the sheet has a mustache. Flowers – small, come in various colors, with numerous stamens and five petals. The fruit of the lentil is a bean, consisting of one socket and two wings. Bob is flattened or slightly convex, with the beak at the end. In one fetus may be no more than three seeds. The seeds are large and small, different color, different shapes. Seed covered with a shell of uniform color or with the presence of the picture.

Lentils are in bloom in June and July. Most often this plant is found in the center of Russia. But, in addition to Russia, the lentils grown in India, USA, Turkey and Canada.

The cultivation of lentils

Lentils are grown in loamy, sandy and cultivated soils. Saline and acidic soils for its cultivation are not suitable. Before sowing of lentil, you must clean the soil from weeds and to create a moisture reserve in winter-spring period. Melt water will contribute to a large crop of lentils.

Before sowing seeds are selected, discarding small specimens, as seeding will only fit large seeds. Before sowing the seeds of lentils must undergo vernalization, which lasts 1-1,5 weeks. The seeds are planted in soil with a temperature of 5-6 degrees Celsius. After sowing seeds, their slightly rolled down – this will give a lot of seedlings.

When the first shoots, it is necessary to clean the soil from weeds and cover, after a harrowing across the rows. Throughout the growth of lentil to monitor for weeds and remove them from the area. To care for crops of lentils is easy: it needs only regular watering and weeding of the soil.

Useful properties of lentils

Lentil is contained in a large amount of vegetable protein, which our body easily absorbs. Lentils are a pantry of useful substances and vitamins: it contains fatty acids, vitamins of group b, trace elements, iodine, vitamin C and other substances beneficial to our body. The lentils used in the treatment of wounds and kidney disease. It is also used for nervousness.

Lentils normalizes blood sugar levels, so it is recommended to people with diabetes. Lentil has a positive effect on the body by the digestive diseases such as colitis, ulcers and otherdisease and normalizes metabolism in the body.

The use of lentils

The lentils used for the treatment of burns. To do this, mix the lentil flour with a small amount of butter and spread this mixture burns to full recovery. Lentils are used in renal failure and stomach diseases. This plant helps to cure malignant tumor. To treat the tumor it is necessary to prepare the infusion. Take lentil flour in quantities of 1 tablespoon, the same number of flowers of potato (dry) and mix everything. To this mixture, pour 2 cups of boiling water and leave in a warm place for 3 hours. Make ready infusion should in the strained and before meals. Single dose – 1 tablespoon. When will have drunk 4 litres of this infusion is the treatment ends.

A decoction of lentils. Take 2 tablespoons of beans lentils and pour in 1.5 cups of water. Put on the fire and simmer for 10-20 minutes. Strain the finished broth, it is taken in case of poisoning, constipation.

Infusion lentils diabetes. Take 1 tablespoon of finely chopped herbs to the lentils, pour 200 ml of boiling water. Now leave the infusion for half an hour. Strain the finished product and take 50 ml three times a day before meals. This infusion is effective in atherosclerosis, obesity and renal disease.

Boost immunity can also using lentils. To do this, add the sprouted grains of this plant. In these beans contains a lot of vitamin C.

Contraindications to the use of lentils

Though lentils and has many useful properties, it has contraindications. For example, people with diseases of the joints and uric acid diathesis may not use the lentils, because it will only hurt their body.