How to brew the bean leaves correctly?

Beans are a legume plant with valuable nutritional qualities and many useful properties for the body. Many people like and often prepare dishes from beans, but few people think that useful properties are both fruits and leaves (pods). Let's consider, what exactly are the bean leaves, how to properly brew and take them for medicinal purposes.

Composition and medicinal properties of bean leaves

The leaves of ordinary bean fruit contain the following components in its composition:

• amino acids (arginine, tyrosine, methionine, lysine, tryptophan, betaine, choline, tyrosine, leucine, asparagine);
• stigmasterin;
• glucokinin (insulin-like substance);
• organic acids (malic, citric, malonic, ascorbic);
• trigonellin;
• pyridoxine;
• thiamine;
• carotene;
• hemicellulose;
• flavonoids (quercetin, kaempferol);
• micro- and macroelements (zinc, copper, calcium, iron, sodium, etc.).

Due to the unique composition of the bean leaf, it has the following beneficial effect on the body:

• vasodilator;
• hypoglycemic (decrease in the amount of glucose in the blood);
• the establishment of metabolic substances in the body;
• diuretic action;
• improving the production of enzymes, hormones, proteins in the body;
• normalization of blood pressure;
• anti-inflammatory;
• antimicrobial.

Indications for treatment with bean leaves

Traditional medicine recommends the use of this drug in such pathologies:

• diabetes mellitus (in uncomplicated form);
• puffiness associated with impaired renal function;
• gout ;
• disruptions in metabolic processes in the body.

In folk healing, bean leaves are more widely used and prescribed for therapy when:

• heart diseases;
• hypertension;
• chronic pancreatitis;
• rheumatism;
• inflammatory diseases of the kidneys;
• urolithiasis and others.

Preparation of decoction from bean leaves

Collection and harvesting of bean leaves plays an important role in preserving the useful qualities of the product. For medicinal purposes, use dried bean leaves. Collect them when the fruits reach maturity. The leaflets are dried outdoors in a shaded place or in a dry place. Shelf life of raw materials is no more than three years.

Decoction from the bean leaves should be prepared as follows:

1. Put a tablespoon of chopped raw material in an enameled container, pour a glass of cold boiled water.
2. Put in a water bath and keep a quarter of an hour under the lid.
3. Remove from the plate, cool for 45 minutes.
4. Strain, carefully wring out.
5. Bring the volume of broth to the original boiled water.

Take in a heated form half a glass three times a day for half an hour before meals. Before use, the broth should be shaken.

Flaps of beans with diabetes

Treatment of diabetes with bean leaves allows you to reduce blood sugar and keep such indicators for about six hours. As a means of independent therapy, decoction of bean leaves is used at the initial stage of diabetes mellitus type 2 in combination with diet. In other cases, leaf beans can only be used as part of an integrated therapy along with antidiabetic drugs.

You can use the bean leaf with diabetes in the form of a decoction, as well as a decoction prepared on the basis of medical collection from bean leaves, blueberry leaves and oat straw, taken evenly. The broth is prepared very easily:

1. Pour five tablespoons of the collection with a liter of water.
2. Boil over low heat for ten minutes.
3. Cool, filter.
4. Take three times a day for half an hour before meals for half a glass.