What benefits does eating coix seed have to the body? Is it okay to eat often?
Coix seed porridge can beautify and slim down, and some women eat it almost every day. However, although glutinous rice porridge is rich in nutrition and has the effect of beauty and slimming, it also has certain taboos, and it is sweet and cold, so it is not suitable for long-term consumption. Therefore, it is not suitable to eat glutinous rice porridge every day, and we should pay attention to glutinous rice porridge's taboos in order to give full play to glutinous rice porridge's nutritional role. Coix seed itself is cold, which will make the body cold, so people with cold constitution are not suitable for eating Coix seed or drinking Coix seed porridge for a long time. Irregular menstruation is not edible. Coix seed is sweet and slightly cold, which is beneficial to the effects of reducing swelling, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, relaxing muscles and tendons, relieving pain, clearing heat and expelling pus. However, women with irregular menstruation and women with cold body should not eat more coix seed during menstruation, otherwise it may affect their normal physiological conditions. Pregnant women should not eat barley porridge. Chinese medicine believes that Job's tears are slippery and he is forbidden to eat and hurt his fetus. Pharmacological experiments also prove that coix seed has an exciting effect on uterine smooth muscle, which can promote uterine contraction and easily cause abortion. Moreover, coix seed has diuretic effect, which may cause imbalance of sodium and potassium ions in the body, more water will be discharged, and the amount of amniotic fluid may be reduced. Eating coix seed often can make the body flexible and reduce the occurrence of tumors. Coix seed contains a certain amount of vitamin E, which is a beauty food and has a certain therapeutic effect on warts caused by virus infection. Regular consumption of coix seed food is also effective for chronic enteritis and dyspepsia. Coix seed can enhance renal function and has the effect of clearing heat and diuresis, so it is effective for edema patients.