Can I eat black beans while taking Chinese medicine?

Although black beans are a very common food, everyone knows that they are a medicine. So since black beans are a medicine themselves, there may be conflicts if you eat them while taking traditional Chinese medicine. So what everyone needs to know is whether you should eat black beans while taking traditional Chinese medicine, and what are the effects and nutritional value of black beans. This will also allow us to have a correct understanding and knowledge of black beans.

Benefits of Black Beans

Chinese medicine reveals the magical effects of black beans

The unsaturated fatty acids contained in black beans can promote the metabolism of cholesterol, lower blood lipids, and prevent cardiovascular diseases. The high fiber content in black beans can promote gastrointestinal motility and prevent constipation, so it is a good product for weight loss. Moreover, black soy milk is not as cold in nature as soybeans, so drinking too much will not cause diarrhea. It also has the effects of treating rheumatism and anti-aging. Black soybean milk and whole wheat bread can be called the golden combination of a nutritious weight loss breakfast. Girls who want to lose weight can eat comfortably and with peace of mind.

Unsaturated fatty acids in black beans

Additional prescription

1. Diabetes Relief Pills: black beans (fried until fragrant) and Radix Trichosanthis in equal parts. Grind into fine powder and make into pills with paste. 15g each time, twice a day. Before use, add 15g of black beans and boil them into a soup for drinking.

Originated from "Puji Fang" (named Jiuzhi Pills). This recipe uses black beans to nourish the kidneys and yin, while Radix Trichosanthis is an important medicine in traditional Chinese medicine for treating diabetes. The original prescription is used to "treat difficult-to-treat kidney deficiency and polydipsia."

2. Black beans for bile: Put an appropriate amount of black beans into the ox bile (soak it), until it is full, hang it in the shade to dry, take out the beans and swallow them all. Take 5-10g each time with warm water.

Originated from "Hou Zhou Fang". Ox bile tastes bitter and very cold, and can clear away heat and quench thirst. After black beans are soaked in bile, they have both the same effects. Used for diabetes, yin deficiency and excessive fire, thirst and excessive drinking, and dry stool.

"Longmu Lun of Ophthalmology" uses the same method to treat dark eyes due to sweating and tearing in the wind. But only take 3 to 17 pills and swallow them every night, which is said to keep your eyes bright for a long time.

3. Bean wine: Fry 250g black beans, soak them in 500g rice wine while they are still hot for several days, take one or half a glass each time.

Originated from "Qian Jin Yao Fang" and "Bencao Yanyi". This recipe uses black beans to nourish kidney yin and control excessive yang. Soak them in rice wine while they are still hot, and the medicinal effect is especially strong. It is used for deficiency of Yin and hyperactivity of Yang, disturbance of vital wind, dizziness and headache, restlessness and fever, etc.

4. Black bean soup: 250 grams of black beans, add appropriate amount of water, simmer over low heat until the soup is thick, and drink it.

Originated from "Guangli Fang". This recipe uses black beans to nourish the spleen, eliminate dampness, and regulate the middle and lower qi. It is used for patients with beriberi edema accompanied by restlessness, palpitations and confusion.

5. Black bean anti-edema powder: 250g black beans, add water and boil until the water is gone and the skin is dry, then grind into fine powder. Take 6g each time, with rice.

Originated from "Bai Yi Xuan Fang". This recipe uses black beans to nourish the spleen and eliminate dampness. Used for edema due to spleen deficiency (or malnutrition), difficulty urinating, and fatigue.

6. Black bean and licorice soup: 30g black beans, 10g licorice. Add water and boil it into a decoction.

Originated from "Compendium of Materia Medica". Licorice is one of the important detoxifying medicines in traditional Chinese medicine. Li Shizhen said: "According to ancient prescriptions, soybeans (actually black beans) can detoxify hundreds of drugs. I tried it every time, but it didn't work. I added licorice, and it worked amazingly."