Senzu Beans

˚✧ Name ✧༚
☆ Senzu Beans

˚✧ Type ✧༚
☆ Item

˚✧ Description ✧༚
☆ Senzu Beans (仙豆, Senzu, lit. "Sage Bean")are mystical beans with immense rejuvenation properties in the Dragon Ball franchise.


Senzu Beans are grown by Korin in Korin Tower. When eaten, the consumer's energy and physical health are restored to their fullest; the effects are typically almost instantaneous for the recipient, making these beans a great asset both in and out of battle. Their texture is said to be a cross between an uncooked (or under ripe) bean and a celery stalk, and Yajirobe states that Senzu Beans taste like fish.[1] One bean can keep a person full for ten days,[2] though some who have eaten the beans have become hungry sooner, due to their naturally larger appetite (namely Saiyans as they generally eat much larger amounts of food). It has been seen that eating too many Senzu Beans at a time is dangerous, as when they are first introduced, Yajirobe is flabbergasted that the only thing Korin has to eat are "beans", and so he eats a few handfuls of Senzu Beans, which resulted in him comically gaining about a pound for every bean he ate. Since Korin allied himself with Goku and his friends, Korin usually assists them by providing the Dragon Team with a sack of beans whenever possible as it takes time to grow even a single bean.


The Senzu's healing capabilities have been able to perform such feats as healing Yamcha's impaled torso after an encounter with Dr. Gero and Android 19, and restoring fatally injured characters to perfect health on various occasions. One significant example of the power of Senzu Beans is demonstrated when, after his face-off with Vegeta, Goku spends seven episodes at Wukong Hospital(traveling far from his bed only in a premature escape, which rendered him powerless once again):[3] when Goku eats a Senzu Bean given by Yajirobe, he is instantly revitalized in spite of these seven episodes spent naturally recovering with medical assistance. Also, Senzu bean apparently can regenerate lost limbs as Future Trunks noted that if they still had Senzu Beans in their timeline, then Future Gohan could have regained his left arm. In the original manga, the Senzu beans were shown to be even capable of instantly regrow missing teeth, as shown with Videlafter Spopovich brutally knocked some of her front teeth out, which all grew back instantly after being fed a Senzu by Gohan. However, it appears that the beans can not heal injuries that have already healed over, like scars or the stub of Saiyan tails. It also appears to only heal physical ailment and not diseases as it could not cure Goku's heart virus.


Goku's good nature has led him to give Senzu Beans to battered enemies after fights. Examples of this include Piccolo, Vegeta, and Cell (though the latter was more to make the fight fair than an actual act of good-will, as Cell was about to face Gohan while he had not quite recovered to full strength). In Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge, Gohan has a spare Senzu Bean Yajirobe gave him in his belt, which ultimately served as the sole reason why Gohan was able to save Goku (who had been critically injured from an earlier attack from Cooler) after Salza destroyed the satchel containing the beans. During the Perfect Cell Saga, Vegeta states that he hates it when he's forced to eat a Senzu Bean, which is most likely due to his Saiyan pride. Senzu Beans are again seen in the Majin Buu Saga, when Majin Vegeta knocks Goku out and eats the last one he has left, right before flying off to face Majin Buu. In Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods and the God of Destruction Beerus Saga, after his short fight against the God of DestructionBeerus on King Kai's Planet, Goku is shown to be rejuvenated with a Senzu Bean that Bubbles found on him. In Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’, the Z-Fighters use the Senzu Beans to recover from their battles against Frieza and his army of 1,000 soldiers, which Master Roshi and Krillin had received from Korin. Krillin also offers a Senzu Bean to Jaco, but he passes, which later turns out to be fortunate after Goku is critically injured by Sorbet's Bad Ring Laser.

In the Dragon Ball Super manga, Goku uses a Senzu Bean to save the life of Gowasu after he had been near fatally injured by Goku Black, along with the injured Shin and Future Trunks. Despite being a Supreme Kai, Gowasu is shocked to learn that such an item exists on Earth of Universe 7.

˚✧ Effects ✧༚
☆ Keeps the user's hunger and nutrition satisfied for ten days.
☆ Completely regenerates the user's health and stamina.