Traditional Chinese medicine believes that black rice has significant medicinal value, and ancient agricultural medical books record that black rice has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, strengthening the body and warming the stomach, improving eyesight and promoting blood circulation, clearing liver and moistening intestines, promoting diuresis and replenishing essence, nourishing lung and relaxing muscles and tendons. Can be used as medicine, and has particularly good curative effect on dizziness, anemia, gray hair, soreness of waist and knees, night blindness and tinnitus. Long-term consumption can prolong life. Therefore, people commonly call it "medicated rice" and "longevity rice". Because it is most suitable for pregnant women and parturients to replenish blood, it is also called "moon rice" and "blood rice". Emperors of past dynasties also regarded it as a palace health treasure, known as "Gong Mi"

Modern nutrition research has found that vitamin B and vitamin E in rice bran and brown rice germ can improve human immune function, promote blood circulation, help people eliminate depression and irritability, and make people full of vitality. In addition, trace elements such as potassium, magnesium, zinc, iron and manganese in brown rice are beneficial to prevent cardiovascular diseases and anemia. It also retains a large amount of dietary fiber, which can promote the proliferation of intestinal beneficial bacteria, accelerate intestinal peristalsis, soften feces, and prevent constipation and intestinal cancer; Dietary fiber can also combine with cholesterol in bile to promote the discharge of cholesterol, thus helping patients with hyperlipidemia to lower their blood lipids.