■ Black bean Black bean is a kind of soybean, which is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrate, carotene, vitamins B1, B2, nicotinic acid and a small amount of soybean flavonoid glycosides genistein. Both of these substances have estrogen-like effects. Black bean leaves contain folic acid, folinic acid, riboflavin, vitamin A and carotenoids. Black bean coat contains pectin, levulinic acid and various sugars. Black beans are sweet and flat, and enter the spleen and kidney meridians. "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "Black beans have a lot of kidney function, so they can control water and reduce swelling. Treat wind and heat and promote blood circulation and detoxification. " Black beans have the effects of promoting blood circulation, promoting diuresis, expelling wind and detoxifying. It can be used for treating edema, fullness, wind toxicity, beriberi, jaundice and edema, wind arthralgia and tendon contracture, puerperal wind recovery, carbuncle, swelling and sore toxicity, etc. Black beans can cure all kinds of poisons and reduce heat. Good understanding of hardware, eight stones, herbs and insect poisons. Soak black beans in water, mash them into paste, take them with soup to detoxify, and apply them externally to relieve carbuncle and swelling. Cooking black beans will benefit the intestines, while frying cooked food will close the breath. Black bean leaves can cure bloody stranguria and snake bite. Black bean coat is a cool nourishing and strengthening medicine. It can nourish blood and dispel wind, and has the effects of detoxification, diuresis, eyesight and essence. Can be used for treating yin deficiency, vexation with heat, night sweats, dizziness, headache, wind arthralgia, etc. People often call black adzuki bean and horsebean, because it is black and small in shape, and can be used as fine feed for pigs and horses, so it belongs to soybean with soybean. Medicinal uses include soybean rolls, douchi and black bean coats processed with black beans. ■ Medicinal taste of black beans: sweet, warm and non-toxic. Meridian tropism: entering the heart, spleen and kidney. Efficacy: tonifying kidney and nourishing yin, enriching blood and improving eyesight, removing dampness and promoting diuresis. Indications: lumbago due to kidney deficiency, blood deficiency, abdominal distension and edema, beriberi, spontaneous sweating and night sweats. Taboo: use it with caution if you are full. ■ Medicinal use of black beans ● Treatment of sputum: 8 grams of black beans, 1 grams of mung beans, and 5 grams of rock sugar. Boil the beans until they are rotten, and eat them once a day for 2-3 days. ● Treatment of rheumatic joint pain: 1 grams of black beans, 1 grams of ginger and 6 grams of papaya. Boil until the beans are rotten, eat beans and soup once a day, and take it 3-5 times. ● Treatment of kidney deficiency and low back pain: 8g of black beans, 5g of fennel, 1g of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. and 1 pig's kidney. Boil the pork loin until it is cooked. Eat pork loin and soup once a day on an empty stomach for three days. ● Treatment of nocturnal enuresis in children: 5 grams of black beans, 1 grams of dog meat, and appropriate amount of salt. Stew in water until the meat is cooked and the beans are rotten, and eat it one hour before going to bed. Take it for 5-7 days. ● Treatment of senile deafness or kidney deficiency deafness: 1 grams of black beans, 1 black dog kidney, and appropriate amount of salt. Stew the beans in water until they are rotten. Take it on an empty stomach every morning once a day for 3-5 days. ● Treating liver deficiency and dizziness: 1 grams of black beans, 1 grams of pig liver, 5 grams of salt, appropriate amount of water, and simmer until the beans are rotten. Once a day, eat on an empty stomach in the morning for 5-7 days. ● Treating women's leucorrhea: 1 grams of black beans, 5 grams of yam and 3 grams of codonopsis pilosula. Boiled bean curd with white sugar is taken once, once a day, for 3-7 days. Fish poisoning: 5 grams of black beans, a bowl of boiled juice, can be detoxified by drinking it. ● Old people with kidney deficiency and deafness: take 5 grams of pork and 1 grams of black beans, cook them until they are cooked, and believe them at will. ■ Black beans can lower blood pressure. Japanese scientists have confirmed that black beans have the effect of lowering blood pressure through 9 years of clinical trials. In traditional Chinese medicine, black bean is a kind of medicinal material, which has effects on kidney, diuresis, cold treatment, blood circulation promotion and detoxification.