When the fruit is ripe in autumn, cut the plant, dry it, place the fruit, dry it again, remove the shell, yellow-brown seed coat and impurities, and collect the seed kernel.
Shennong's Herbal Classic lists it as the top grade, and thinks that long-term use can cure dampness, benefit the stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, and make people strengthen their health and replenish qi.
"Records of Famous Doctors" records: "It is heartless to dispel pathogenic factors in bones and muscles, benefit the stomach, eliminate edema and make people eat it."
"New edition of Materia Medica": "Coix seed is the most beneficial to water and will not consume true yin. It is best for people with wet lower body. Depending on the severity of illness and dosage, Yin and Yang will not be harmed, but wet disease is easy to go away. Therefore, whenever the water is wet, it is useless to use coix seed as a monarch, supplemented by the taste of invigorating the spleen and eliminating dampness. If the smell is mild and used lightly, it will be useless. "
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records that coix seed "tonifies the spleen and stomach, tonifies the lung and clears away heat, dispels wind and overcomes dampness, keeps beauty and keeps capacity, and makes people keep fit and prolong life". Coix seed wine records: Coix seed powder, brewed with koji rice or boiled in bags, can remove rheumatism, strengthen bones and muscles, and strengthen spleen and stomach; Coix seed porridge: Coix seed is ground into coarse powder, which is equal to japonica rice. Add water to make porridge, and take it 1.2 times a day for several days. It is used for spleen edema, rheumatism, limb contracture, etc.
Zhu Yuzhou recorded in Medical Enthusiasm and Xizhi that 60g of Coicis Semen and 60g of Chinese yam were pounded into coarse powder, decocted in water until cooked, and 25g of persimmon cream cake was chopped, mixed and dissolved, and taken at will. For spleen and lung yin deficiency, lazy diet, deficiency-heat cough.
(1) is generally oval or rectangular.
(2) The surface is milky white and smooth, with occasional yellowish brown seed coat, one end is blunt and round, the other end is slightly concave, with 1 light brown punctate hilum, the back is round and convex, and the ventral surface has 1 wide and deep longitudinal groove.
(3) Solid mass, white cross section and powder.
(4) Slight breath, slightly sweet taste.
According to traditional experience, the grain is big and full, dry, with few impurities and no damage, and the white color is better.
Chinese medicine believes that coix seed tastes sweet, light and cool; Return and discharge, stomach meridian and lung meridian. Has the effects of invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, relieving arthralgia, relieving diarrhea, clearing heat and expelling pus. It has certain curative effect on edema, beriberi, dysuria, dampness stagnation, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, handsome lung and intestine, and verruca plana.
1. Coix seed and red bean soup
The formula of coix seed is 30 grams, and Hongxiao/15 grams.
Make coix seed, wash and soak it for 20 minutes, put it in a pot with adzuki beans, add water, boil it with strong fire, then cook it with slow fire until it is cooked, or add some rock sugar.
Usage: Take it in the morning and evening for 7 days.
Function: invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, whitening and losing weight. Suitable for people with heavy humidity and obesity in summer.
2. Coix seed and tremella soup
The formula is coix seed 150g, tremella fuciformis 100g, osmanthus fragrans, sugar and starch.
Soak tremella in cold water to remove impurities, and then soak it in boiling water until it is fully developed; Then put it into a pot, add sugar and water, and boil it with high fire; Then add the Coix seed soaked in warm water, thicken it with water starch, and add osmanthus.
Usage: Take it twice a day on an empty stomach.
Function is suitable for spleen and stomach weakness, lung and stomach yin deficiency and other diseases. Can be used as an auxiliary medicine for various tumor patients.
3. glutinous rice and lotus seed porridge
The formula is 50 grams of coix seed, 30 grams of lotus seed (heart-removed), 20 grams of lily, 50 grams of japonica rice and a proper amount of brown sugar.
Production: Wash Coix seed, lotus seed and lily, add appropriate amount of water into casserole, fry until it is rotten, add japonica rice and cook until porridge is cooked, and add brown sugar to serve.
Usage: Warm clothing, 65438+ 0-2 times a day.
Formulated to strengthen the spleen and moisten the lungs, eliminate dampness and stop diarrhea, and maintain beauty. It is suitable for loose stool, eczema of lower limbs, facial acne and other diseases.
Spleen deficiency without dampness, dry stool and caution for pregnant women.
Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica: "People with dry stools, little water, cold tendon transfer and spleen deficiency without dampness should avoid it. No pregnancy. "
Materia Medica Xuan Tong: "It is not advisable to indulge in low-level tastes."
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Text/Xu Chuangeng
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