The Eccentric Use of Pinto Beans You’ll Never Guess

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Among my friends and family, it is not a secret that I love legumes. They are affordable, a wonderful convenience food, and pose a variety of health benefits due to their high content of complex carbohydrates, plant-based protein, vitamins/minerals, and phytochemicals: weight management, LDL cholesterol reduction, CVD prevention, blood sugar regulation, diabetes prevention, and treatment of gastrointestinal tract conditions are just a few of the potential health benefits of increased legume consumption.

Most people know the term “beans” instead of “legumes”. All beans are technically legumes, but not all legumes are beans, since the term “legumes” also includes peas, lentils, and undried/fresh legumes (i.e. snap peas). While legumes offer a variety of health and non-health benefits, dried beans specifically have a new, unusual use: wart removal (just stay with me now).

I had originally hoped there was some nutritional aspect of beans that magically caused warts to fall off, but that just wasn’t the case.

Warts on fingers or toes are usually removed using topical treatments, immunotherapy, or injections; these sometimes take several treatment sessions depending on the person. A new novel technique includes dried/uncooked pinto bean pressure wraps. The way it works is that a small, hard, and convex shaped object is placed over the wart and covered with an adhesive wrap overnight, causing ischemic changes to the wart and cutting off blood supply. The wrap is removed in the morning with no additional treatment; however, this process may take several nights depending on the wart, but the wart eventually falls off due to the pressure. The benefits of pinto bean pressure wraps include a low cost, low risk, and nearly pain free alternative to other treatments that anyone can do at home. 

So, next time you or a friend/loved one has a wart, keep the pinto beans in mind! Since it is pain free, it would be a great option to use for kids (especially since kids always have warts for some reason?). This treatment shouldn’t just be kept to pinto beans, though; realistically, pinto beans have a similar shape to black beans, kidney beans, cannellini beans, so whatever dried bean you have on hand should technically work! Since it only takes a few dried beans to solve the issue, you then have almost a whole bag of beans to use for some good soup or chili (I must stress that you should only cook with the UNUSED beans). 


Reference:


https://www.mdedge.com/dermatology/article/271503/mixed-topics/pinto-bean-pressure-wraps-novel-approach-treating-digital


- NB


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