Properties of pulses

Pulses as a class (arhar, chickpea, lentil and others) are described as dry, cooling, astringent-sweet, binding and vata-increasing, and being astringent they suit raktapitta. Horse gram is hot, destroys kapha and vata, removes gulma, aṣṭhīlā and enlargement of the liver and spleen, but provokes raktapitta.