Patient's question:
My husband has high blood pressure for 2 years now, and he wants to eat black rice. Can people with high blood pressure eat black rice?Doctor's answer:
Hypertension patients can eat black rice. Black rice has the effects of nourishing the kidneys, spleen, and liver, strengthening the spleen and stomach, warming the body, promoting blood circulation, and nourishing the liver. Regular consumption of black rice helps prevent and treat dizziness, anemia, white hair, lower back weakness, cough, constipation, urination problems, kidney deficiency edema, poor appetite, and weak spleen and stomach diseases. For example, it is very effective for young white hair, postpartum weakness in women, physical anemia, and kidney deficiency after illness. Black rice is a very nutritious food, making it highly suitable for hypertension patients to consume.