In traditional medicine, black beans are also considered an important medicine to help nourish the kidneys, detoxify, promote blood circulation, and promote urination.
Black beans - a medicine, a familiar food, cheap, easy to find, has many valuable uses, suitable for year-round use.
According to traditional medicine, black beans have a sweet taste, neutral properties, and enter the Kidney and Liver meridians; have the effect of replenishing kidney water, clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting urination and reducing swelling, and promoting blood circulation and dispelling wind-heat.
Black beans are black, and according to the "five colors - five organs" theory, black enters the kidneys, so they have the effect of replenishing kidney yin, nourishing essence, and benefiting blood and qi.
Black beans are especially suitable for people with weakness, back pain, weak knees, little urination, dark skin, premature gray hair; or people working in hot environments, sweating a lot, dehydration.
Not only in Oriental medicine, modern research also shows that black beans contain a lot of vegetable protein, fiber, anthocyanin, isoflavone, iron, magnesium, zinc, and B vitamins.
These active ingredients help lower blood fat, stabilize blood sugar, protect the cardiovascular system, act as antioxidants and prevent aging.
Black beans nourish kidney water, clear heat and detoxify.
1. Black bean nutrition
1.1. Black bean and sticky rice porridge - nourishes blood and spleen
Ingredients: 50g black beans, 100g glutinous rice, spices to taste.
How to make: Soak black beans overnight until soft, cook with sticky rice and enough water; when the porridge is soft, add seasoning to taste. People with weak spleen and stomach, or cold stomach should add a few slices of fresh ginger when cooking to avoid bloating.
Uses: According to Oriental medicine, this porridge helps to strengthen the spleen and stomach, benefit the blood and qi, increase urination and cool the body; regular use helps weak people, people who have been sick or women after giving birth to quickly recover their health.
Black bean and sticky rice porridge nourishes the spleen and stomach, and benefits qi and blood.
1.2. Black beans stewed with jujubes – nourish blood, beautify skin
Ingredients: 50g black beans, 10 jujubes, rock sugar.
How to make: Wash black beans; remove seeds from jujubes, simmer with water until soft, add rock sugar to taste.
Uses: Black beans combined with jujubes have the effect of enriching blood, moisturizing the skin, reducing fatigue, and improving sleep. This dish is very suitable for women after menstruation, people with dry skin, weak hair, or mild anemia.
1.3. Roasted black bean water – detoxifying, cooling
Ingredients: 100g black beans.
How to make: Roast black beans until fragrant; then boil with 1 liter of water for 10-15 minutes, filter and drink during the day.
Uses: Roasted black bean water is a natural cooling drink, helps purify the liver and kidneys, is diuretic, reduces swelling and clears acne. Modern science has proven that this water is rich in anthocyanin antioxidants, helps protect liver and skin cells, and effectively supports weight loss.
Roasted black bean water helps purify the liver and kidneys.
1.4. Black bean and coix porridge – prevents rheumatism, diuretic
Ingredients: 30g black beans, 30g coix seeds, 50g rice.
How to make: Wash everything, cook into porridge, eat while hot.
Uses: According to Oriental medicine, coix has a sweet and bland taste, slightly cold properties, has the effect of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness; combined with black beans to promote urination and reduce edema; used to treat rheumatism, swelling and pain, little urination, acne, and seborrheic dermatitis.
Black beans combined with coix seeds and rice are diuretic and anti-inflammatory.
1.5. Black bean soup with pork bones – clears heat, nourishes the kidneys, strengthens tendons and bones
Ingredients: 50g black beans, 300g pork bones (or pig tail), salt to taste.
How to make: Soak black beans for a few hours; blanch pork bones in boiling water; then put everything in a pot and simmer for 1 - 2 hours, season to taste.
Uses: According to Traditional Medicine, pork bones nourish the kidney marrow, strengthen tendons and bones; combined with black beans to nourish kidney water, creating a dish that nourishes tendons and bones, reduces back pain, nourishes blood, and is an effective diuretic; can be used 1-2 times/week for heavy laborers, the elderly, postpartum women, or people with bone and joint pain.
Black bean stew with pig tail strengthens tendons and bones, reduces back pain.
1.6. Black bean stew with pumpkin - strengthens the spleen, nourishes the stomach, stabilizes blood sugar
Ingredients: 50g black beans, 150g pumpkin, 50g rice.
Directions: Cook black beans until soft; add rice and sliced pumpkin, cook until porridge.
Uses: Black beans clear heat and promote urination; pumpkin nourishes the middle and qi, harmonizes the stomach. Combining the two flavors helps strengthen the spleen, aid digestion, stabilize blood sugar, reduce fatigue; suitable for people with diabetes, mild digestive disorders or physical weakness.
Pumpkin combined with black beans helps strengthen the spleen and aid digestion.
2. Some folk remedies from black beans
• Detoxifying heavy metals: Boil 50g black beans to get water to drink, can add a little licorice.
• Reduce back pain and knee pain: 50g black beans, 20g red fo-ti, 16g rehmannia root, boil to get water to drink daily.
• Detoxifying and cooling the liver: Crush raw black beans and steep them in boiling water to help detoxify alcohol and reduce liver heat.
3. Notes when using black beans
- People with weak spleen and stomach, often have bloating and diarrhea, should use roasted black beans or cook them with ginger; avoid eating them raw.
- You should not drink black bean water instead of water every day because it can easily cause electrolyte loss.
- When taking Western medicine, you should not drink black bean water immediately afterward, because black beans can reduce the absorption of medicine (especially iron and calcium).
Dishes and remedies made from black beans are easy to make, have simple ingredients, and can be applied to many people. They help support digestion, improve liver and kidney function, reduce fatigue, and increase resistance.