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Senzu bean is known as "magical healing bean", it can heal and restore
consumer's health instantly when eaten. Does it cures diseases as well? Such
as Goku's heart disease.


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Could Senzu Beans cure diseases as well?


If Senzu bean could cure diseases, Goku wouldn't have died in the future and
Trunks wouldn't have needed to go back from the future to give him the
antidote.

From [Dragon ball wikia](http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Senzu_Bean)

> However, it appears that the beans can not heal injuries that have already
> healed over (like Tien's and Yamcha's respective scars or Saiyan tails) or
> cure ailments (like Goku's heart virus contracted during the Androids Saga)


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While there's little concrete evidence, it's likely that Senzu Bean's only
heal the type of wounds your body could heal on its own, in Dragonball it was
noted that Senzu bean's were very filling, not quite like medicine. So it
could be more like they're a "super food" that accelerates the body's natural
processes rather than something like conventional medicine.


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NO.

Senzu bean only help to recover from injury, heal the wounds and regain power.
It could not be used as a medicine to cure disease, and the evidence can be
found during the Android Saga, where Future Trunks bought the antidote from
the future to help Goku survive the heart attack.


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It could be because it was EXPLAINED by Future Trunks in the Android Arc that
Senzu Beans, in his timeline, were stopped being manufactured because of the
decrease in need of it and the time to make a senzu bean would take long, thus
the heart disease that Goku contracted were not cured.


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