Chinese medicine believes that black rice has significant medicinal value. The ancient farm medical book records: black rice “nourishing yin and tonifying the kidneys, fitness and warming the stomach, improving eyesight and activating blood circulation”, “clearing the liver and intestines”, “smoothing and moisturizing the intestines, and supplementing the lungs to relieve tendons” Efficacy; can be used as medicine, for dizziness, anaemia and white hair, waist and knees, night blindness and tinnitus, the effect is particularly good. Long-term consumption can prolong life. Therefore, people commonly known as: "medicine rice" and "longevity rice." Because it is most suitable for pregnant women, maternal and other blood use, also known as "moon rice", "blood rice" and so on. The emperors also used it as a treasure of palace health, known as "Gonmi."
Modern medicine confirmed that black rice has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, strengthening the spleen and warming the liver, tonifying the spleen and stomach, supplementing qi and activating blood circulation, and maintaining liver and eyesight. Regular consumption of black rice will help prevent dizziness, dizziness, anemia, white hair, eye diseases, weak waist, dryness and cough, constipation, urination, kidney edema, loss of appetite, weakness of the spleen and stomach. Because black rice contains many nutrients concentrated in the black cortex, it should not be fine processing, brown rice or standard third-class rice is appropriate. According to the research of nutrition expert Li Jiyun, the vitality index of black rice is 7.7021, and the food disease prevention index is 36.05, which has strong health care functions.