The 8 Major Benefits and Effects of Black Beans, and How to Eat Them to Best Nourish the Kidneys and Treat Gray Hair?

Black beans are a type of soybean. When I was young, I had to urinate many times a day, which was due to poor kidney health. My mom found a folk remedy: stuffing black beans inside a pig stomach and steaming it until cooked, and the effect really worked. So, do you know all about the benefits and effects of black beans? How should you eat them to best nourish the kidneys?

1. Do you know all about the benefits and effects of black beans?

1. Black bean benefit and effect: delaying aging of the body

Because black beans are rich in protein, they can delay aging of the body.

2. Black bean benefit and effect: lowering blood sugar

Because the trypsin and chymotrypsin contained in black beans can enhance pancreatic function and improve insulin function, they can effectively lower blood sugar.

3. Black bean benefit and effect: clearing heat and detoxifying

Because black beans contain vitamins and melanin, they can clear heat and detoxify.

4. Black bean benefit and effect: nourishing blood and the kidneys

As mentioned at the beginning, black beans have the effect of nourishing the kidneys and can also nourish blood, with nutritional and health-promoting effects.

5. Black bean benefit and effect: tonifying the spleen

6. Black bean benefit and effect: promoting diuresis

7. Black bean benefit and effect: detoxifying

8. Black bean benefit and effect: treating boils and acne sores (the main active part is the skin of the black bean.)

9. Black bean benefit and effect: treating gray hair

Eating black beans as a dietary supplement has a certain effect on inhibiting the growth of gray hair, but it cannot really be called a treatment. To address gray hair growth, you need to tackle the root cause to achieve good results.

2. How are black beans best eaten?

1. Grass carp tail and black bean soup

Features: light, salty and fragrant; can be taken 1 dose daily for 10 consecutive days. Black beans are black soybeans. They contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, carotene, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, and more. They also contain daidzein, choline, soy sterols, folic acid, pantothenic acid, and more. Their flavor is sweet and their nature is neutral; they have the effects of nourishing the kidneys and yin, and nourishing blood and improving eyesight. They have the effects of invigorating blood, promoting diuresis, dispelling wind and detoxifying, as well as invigorating blood and moisturizing the skin. Chicken is rich in nutrients; its nature is warm and its flavor is sweet, and it has the effects of warming the middle and boosting qi, replenishing essence and marrow, and invigorating blood and regulating menstruation. This soup has the effect of removing spots and whitening, and is suitable for people with dark spots on the face.

2. Black bean and chicken claw soup

Ingredients: 100 grams black beans, 250 grams chicken claws, appropriate amount of salt

Remove impurities from the black beans, soak them in clean water for 30 minutes, and set aside; wash the chicken claws and blanch them thoroughly in boiling water.

Put water in a pot over heat, add the chicken claws and black beans, first bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, then switch to low heat and simmer until the meat and beans are thoroughly cooked, add salt to season, and it is ready to eat.

3. Braised pig trotters with black beans

Ingredients: 400 grams black beans, 750 grams pig trotters, 125 grams pig ears, 125 grams pig tail, 75 grams pig skin, 100 grams pig fat, 125 grams tomato, 75 grams onion, 250 grams rice. 75 grams cooking oil, 100 grams garlic oil, appropriate amounts of refined salt and pepper

4. Black bean and black chicken soup

Materials: 150 grams black beans, 100 grams He Shou Wu (Polygonum multiflorum), 1 black chicken, 10 red dates, 5 grams ginger, appropriate amount of refined salt.

Method: Slaughter the black chicken, remove the feathers and internal organs, and wash clean for later use. Put the black beans in an iron pot and dry-fry until the bean skins split, then wash them clean with water and let them dry for later use. Wash the He Shou Wu, red dates, and ginger separately, remove the pits from the red dates, peel the ginger and slice it, and set aside. Add an appropriate amount of clean water to a pot, bring to a boil over high heat, add the black beans, He Shou Wu, black chicken, red dates, and ginger, then switch to medium heat and continue simmering for about 3 hours, add an appropriate amount of refined salt, and the soup is done.

3. How should black beans be eaten to best nourish the kidneys?

1. Black bean and pig stomach soup

Wrap black beans, Yi Zhi Ren (Alpinia oxyphylla fruit), Sang Piao Xiao (mantis egg-case), and Jin Ying Zi (Cherokee rose fruit) in clean gauze; wash the pig stomach clean and remove any off odors.

Put the gauze bundle and pig stomach together into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, stew until cooked, add salt to season, and it is ready.

2. Black bean and purple rice porridge

Effects: strengthening the kidneys, boosting qi, and tonifying deficiency.

Materials: 75 grams purple rice, 50 grams black beans.

Seasoning: 5 grams white sugar.

4. People who should avoid black beans

1. Weak people should not eat black beans.

2. People with poor digestive function or food accumulation and abdominal bloating should eat black beans sparingly or not at all.

3. Patients with liver, kidney, and other diseases should eat black beans sparingly or not at all.

5. What symptoms are black beans suitable for?

Suitable for spleen deficiency edema, leg edema, physical weakness with excessive sweating, kidney deficiency with deafness, frequent nighttime urination, early graying of hair, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, limb numbness, excessive vaginal discharge, postpartum stroke, and other conditions.