Is it true that soaking black beans in vinegar can nourish the kidneys?

Recently, there has been a crazy saying on the Internet that eating black beans soaked in vinegar can improve sexual performance. Everyone knows that vinegar is a good thing. It is an indispensable condiment in life. It can soften blood vessels, lower high blood pressure, and has the ability to kill and inhibit bacteria. Moreover, the combination of vinegar and ginger can prevent hair loss, lose weight, and nourish the stomach; with onions, it can help lose weight, detoxify and beautify the skin. Can the combination of vinegar with so many functions and black beans really have an aphrodisiac effect?

1. Benefits of Black Beans

Black beans are sweet, mild and non-toxic. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Black beans have many functions for the kidneys, so they can treat water, reduce swelling, reduce gas, control wind and heat, and promote blood circulation and detoxify." That is to say, black beans are black in color and enter the kidney meridian, and their functions include promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, regulating qi and promoting qi, and promoting blood circulation and detoxifying. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that it has no kidney-tonifying effect. However, the sour taste of black beans soaked in vinegar enters the liver, so it leads the medicine into the liver, which has the effect of nourishing liver yin and improving eyesight, inhibiting vision loss; it has the effect of calming the liver and suppressing yang, and has a health-care effect on dry eyes and high blood pressure, but it has no obvious kidney-tonifying effect. Black beans are rich in excellent antioxidants such as anthocyanins, vitamin E and isoflavones. It can effectively resist computer radiation and anti-aging, and is the outermost anti-oxidation protective layer in the body. Moreover, isoflavones are a type of plant estrogen that can effectively inhibit breast cancer, prostate cancer and colon cancer, and are also helpful in preventing and treating osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly people. Black beans are high in trace elements such as zinc, copper, magnesium, molybdenum, selenium, fluorine, etc., which are very important for delaying human aging and reducing blood viscosity. Black beans also contain a lot of crude fiber and oligosaccharides, which can help you who don’t like to exercise effectively promote the peristalsis of the digestive system. Regular consumption of black beans can provide crude fiber in food, promote digestion, help intestinal peristalsis, and thus eliminate flatulence and toxins smoothly, preventing constipation. Oligosaccharides are beneficial to the proliferation of bifidobacteria, thereby improving the intestinal flora environment and having a regulating effect.

In addition, the unsaturated fatty acids contained in black beans can be converted into lecithin in the human body, which is the main component of the formation of brain nerves. Eating more black beans is beneficial to the development of brain nerves. The calcium and phosphorus in black beans can prevent brain aging and dullness, and improve brain health and intelligence.

2. Can black beans soaked in vinegar enhance sexual performance?

Combining black beans with other kidney-tonifying ingredients will achieve twice the result with half the effort. For example, to treat kidney deficiency and low back pain: 80 grams of black beans, 5 grams of fennel, 10 grams of eucommia, and 1 pig kidney. Boil the pork kidneys until they are cooked through, eat the pork kidneys and soup on an empty stomach, once a day, for three days; to treat sexual dysfunction due to kidney deficiency: 100 grams of black beans, 30 grams of Cistanche deserticola, 3 sheep kidneys, and an appropriate amount of salt. Stew in water until beans are soft. Take it on an empty stomach every morning, once a day, for 3-5 days in a row and the effect will be immediate. To treat frequent urination at night due to kidney deficiency in the elderly: take 10 grams of Alpinia oxyphylla and 100 grams of black beans, cook until well-cooked, take 50 beans a day.

The cooler weather in autumn is the peak season for chronic kidney disease, hypertensive nephropathy, and diabetic nephropathy. For patients with chronic kidney disease, hypertensive nephropathy, diabetic nephropathy, if they are accompanied by renal insufficiency and elevated blood creatinine and urea nitrogen, they should not consume black beans and their products. If you consume too much soy products, it will increase the burden on your kidneys, accelerate the progression of renal insufficiency and increase proteinuria. Therefore, it is a misunderstanding that black beans can nourish the kidneys. In particular, patients with chronic kidney disease should not eat black beans blindly to prevent aggravating kidney disease.