Coix seed is a good medicinal tonic. According to the analysis of medical department, Coix seed contains protein 16.2%, fat 4.6% and carbohydrate 79.2%. Braised pork feet, ribs and chicken with coix seed in winter is a nourishing food. Cooking porridge with coix seed or making iced drinks with coix seed in summer are all good supplements. The seeds and roots of coix seed can be used as medicine to treat diseases. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records Li Shizhen: Coix seed can "strengthen the spleen and stomach, invigorate the lung and clear heat, dispel wind and overcome dampness". Cooking and air conditioning. In recent years, a lot of scientific research and clinical practice have proved that coix seed is still an anticancer drug. Preliminary identification shows that its cancer inhibition rate can reach more than 35%. No wonder there is a folk song in Guilin that says, "Coix seed is better than Ganoderma lucidum, and its medicinal and nutritional value is high. Eating regularly can prolong life and contribute to rejuvenation. "
efficacy
Strengthening the spleen, eliminating dampness, stopping diarrhea and discharging pus. Used for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, muscle soreness, joint pain, edema, beriberi, leucorrhea, lung abscess and appendicitis. Usually the dosage is 9 ~ 30g. Eliminating dampness and strengthening spleen; Relaxing tendons and removing arthralgia; Clearing heat and expelling pus
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1. Effects on cardiovascular system: inhibiting respiratory center and dilating peripheral blood vessels, especially pulmonary blood vessels.
2. Anti-tumor: especially suitable for digestive tract tumors with spleen deficiency and dampness and lung cancer with phlegm heat and dampness.
3. Enhance immunity and anti-inflammation. Coix seed oil can promote cellular immunity and humoral immunity.
4. Lowering blood sugar: It can dilate blood vessels and lower blood sugar, especially suitable for hypertension and hyperglycemia.
5. Inhibition of skeletal muscle contraction: Coix seed can inhibit skeletal muscle contraction, reduce muscle contracture and shorten its fatigue curve; It can inhibit the contraction of striated muscle.
6. Sedative, analgesic and antipyretic effects: It has sedative, analgesic and antipyretic effects. It has a good curative effect on patients with rheumatic joint pain.
7. Reduce blood calcium, delay aging and improve immunity.
8. Edema; Beriberi; Urine drops; Damp-heat disease; Diarrhea with diarrhea; Rheumatalgia; Tendon contracture; Carbuncle of lung; Intestinal carbuncle; verruca plana
[Edit this paragraph] The efficacy of coix seed oil
It has the effects of exciting, relieving fever, stopping bleeding, diminishing inflammation and expelling pus, and can also inhibit the growth of cancer cells. treat cordially
1. Used for hair: it can nourish hair, prevent hair loss and make hair smooth and soft.
2. Used for skin: it has obvious curative effect on facial acne and rough skin. In addition, it also has the ability to absorb ultraviolet rays, and its extract can also achieve sun protection and ultraviolet protection when added to cosmetics.
In addition, coix seed is a kind of food. Soft cooking or frying is more beneficial to the absorption of the stomach. People who often feel tired and have no strength can eat more. Coix seed is rich in protein decomposing enzyme, which can soften skin cutin. Long-term use is also effective for those with wart, rough and unsmooth skin.
[Edit this paragraph] Drug contraindications
This product is slow and should be taken for a long time. Spleen deficiency without dampness, dry stool and caution for pregnant women.
[Edit this paragraph] Diet DIY
Practice: The simplest thing is to drink the fried coix seed as tea, or grind the fried coix seed and take coix seed powder every day. There are coix seed tea or coix seed tea or coix seed powder on the market. You can also cook it with mung beans to make mung bean barley porridge (soak barley in water before cooking, it will cook faster). Oral administration: decoction,10-30g; Or take medicine, break up, soak in wine, cook porridge and make soup.
Health care diet:
Coix seed and rice porridge: 30g of Coix seed and 30g of japonica rice, cooked together and eaten on an empty stomach, can cure rheumatism, spleen deficiency and spleen pain, muscle and vein contracture and diarrhea.
Coix seed crystal sugar drink: Coix seed 50g, lily 10g, decocted in water, taken with crystal sugar, can cure verruca plana, freckles and acne.
Coix seed porridge: 50g of Coix seed is ground into powder, and appropriate amount of water is added to cook porridge, 1, three times a day. Long-term administration can make you strong and benefit qi.
Coix seed mutton soup: Coix seed 150g, mutton 250g, appropriate amount of water for soup, salt and monosodium glutamate for seasoning (a few slices of ginger can also be added). There is food. It can strengthen the spleen and kidney, replenish qi and tonify deficiency. Weakness, anemia, loss of appetite, etc.
[Edit this paragraph] Pharmacological action
1. Antitumor effect:
1. 1. Coix lachryma-jobi ethanol extract can inhibit the proliferation of Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (ECA) cells and significantly prolong the survival time of animals. Two components were further separated from the extract, one can cause the protoplasm degeneration of cancer cells, and the other can stop the nucleus in the mitotic phase of mesophase.
1.2. The acetone extract of Coix lachryma-jobi also inhibited the intraperitoneal injection of ECA in mice. This anti-tumor activity can be transferred to the acidic part dissolved in petroleum ether. If injected subcutaneously, ascites will become transparent and tumor cells will almost disappear, but the toxicity of this part is correspondingly high. The acetone extract of Coix lachryma-jobi also has obvious inhibitory effect on solid tumors of cervical cancer 14(U 14) and ascites liver cancer (HCA).
1.3. the clinical application of coix seed decoction can prolong the life of patients with advanced cancer. ascites examination showed that the protoplasm of cancer cells was obviously denatured after intraperitoneal injection of coix seed acetone extract. It was also found that the 50% ethanol extract of Coix lachryma-jobi seed could promote the keratinization of cultured squamous epithelial cancer cells.
2. Immune function:
2. 1. The neutral polysaccharide dextran mixture and acidic polysaccharide IIA- 1, 2,3,Ⅱ b separated from the hot water extract of Coix lachryma-jobi have anti-complement activity.
2.2. The mixture of neutral polysaccharide and dextran is highly heterogeneous. Seven kinds of glucans can be separated by HPLC, which are α-D- glucans linked by1→ 4, with glucosyl side chains at the 0-6 position of the main chain. Each purified glucan has a different maximum absorption (530nm or >: 550nm) in iodine reaction, and > 500 nm glucan is more effective than 530 nm glucan, which is considered to have considerable anti-complement activity.
2.3. Further separation and purification of acidic polysaccharides IIA-1,2, 3 and Ⅱ b resulted in anti-complement polysaccharides CA- 1 and CA-2, with protein content of 8- 1 1% and molecular weights of 160000 and 70000 respectively. At low dose, CA-2 showed stronger anti-complement activity than CA- 1.
3. Hypoglycemic, calcium and blood pressure effects:
Injection of Coix seed ether extract (Coix seed oil) under rabbit skin can reduce blood sugar and blood calcium. The aqueous extract of Coix lachryma-jobi seed can significantly reduce the blood sugar concentration by intraperitoneal injection in mice, and three effective components, namely Coix lachryma-jobi polysaccharide A, B and C, are separated from it. These components can cause hypoglycemia in normal mice and alloxan-induced hyperglycemia mice. Intravenous injection of coix seed can temporarily reduce blood pressure in rabbits.
4. Inhibition of trypsin:
A thermostable trypsin inhibitor was found from the bran of Coix lachryma-jobi seeds. It is a simple protein with a molecular weight of about 12000 and contains many cysteine or cystine residues. The molecular ratio of it to bovine trypsin is 1: 2, which shows that it is double-headed, and its activity is stable at pH3- 1 1 and high temperature 100℃, but the thermal stability of its inhibitory activity mainly depends on the type of solvent.
5. Ovulation induction:
The function of hypothalamus can be obviously improved after the patients with intractable anovulation take the prescription of Coicis Semen as the main medicine. Coix lachryma-jobi extract can also induce ovulation in golden hamsters, and the active substances that promote ovulation are feruloyl stigmasterol and feruloyl brassinolide. 9: 1 trans-feruloyl stigmasterol and trans-feruloyl brassinolide (1) showed ovulation induction in golden hamsters at a dose of 200 μ g/day.
[Edit this paragraph] Textual research
From Shennong's Herbal Classic.
1. "On Leigong Roasting": Anyone who makes coix seed does not use corn, which is big and tasteless. When it is corn, people call it jade.
2. "Don't record": Coix lachryma really settled in Pingze Hotan. Harvest in August, and keep harvesting roots.
3. "Outline": There are two kinds of Coix lachryma: one is sticky, with a thin shell, that is, Coix lachryma, whose rice is white, such as glutinous rice, which can be used for porridge rice and ground pasta, and can also be used for making wine with rice; Those with round and hard shells are bodhi and those with little rice are japonica jade. Its root is white, as big as a spoon handle, knotty and sweet.
Various exhibitions
1. "Materia Medica": Coix lachryma, sweet and light in taste, slightly cool in gas, slightly reduced in permeability, so it can dispel dampness and promote diuresis, so it can benefit joints, remove beriberi, treat flaccidity and weakness, relieve swelling and pain, promote diuresis and heat stranguria, and also kill ascaris. Because of its slight decline, it also treats cough and pus and promotes appetite. Because of its cool nature, it can clear away heat, stop polydipsia and get angry. However, its skills are slow and should be used as an aid.
2. "Medicinal meaning": Coix seed, sweet and harmonious, clear and turbid, can strengthen the spleen and nourish yin and benefit the stomach. Indications: diarrhea due to spleen deficiency leads to edema, and rheumatic intervertebral disc is slow, resulting in weakness of hands and feet and inability to bend and stretch. Because of dampness, soil failure, soil failure, gas recovery. Inflation is self-sufficient and self-generated. Take it into the lungs, nourish its source, and use it to treat upper energizer to quench thirst, lung carbuncle and intestinal carbuncle. And take the part with strong and heavy taste and cultivate it, and use it to treat beriberi, swelling and pain, and intestinal bleeding. If you cough up blood for a long time and eat less, it will be ineffective if you use gas slowly.
3. "Materia Medica": Coix seed, dehumidification is not as good as two operations to help dryness, clearing heat is not as good as Qin, damaging yin generation, benefiting qi is not as good as ginseng, and the operation is still hot and humid, and it is sincere and beneficial to the middle qi. However, its taste is weak and its strength is slow. What effect can you expect it to have if you don't fit in and concentrate?
4. "New edition of Materia Medica": Coix seed is the most beneficial to water and will not distort yin. It is best for people with wet lower body. Depending on the severity of the disease and dosage, it will not hurt Yin and Yang, but wet disease is easy to go. Therefore, in case of water-dampness syndrome, it is useless to use coix seed as a monarch, and it is not too quick to help strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. If the smell is mild and light, it is useless.
5. "Classic Book and Classic Syndrome": The commentator said that invigorating qi and eliminating dampness, harmonizing spleen and coix seed are similar to surgery. I don't know the difference, but it is also a thousand miles away. Clouds cover the gas, the technique is warm and moist, and the coix lachryma is slightly cold; What is the taste of the cloud? The technique is sweet, but the barley is light. Moreover, the taste of the operation is relatively strong, and the taste of Coix lachryma-jobi is relatively light, which is quite different. This meaning is found in synopsis of the golden chamber, which says that wet homes are troublesome and painful. When you take ephedra with soup and sweat as your home, be careful not to attack it with fire. This is called rheumatism, which is caused by sweating when the wind blows or catching cold for a long time. Can be matched with ephedra, almond, coix seed and licorice soup. Those who are troubled and miserable are wet and cold; All the people who suffer are wet and windy. Cold changes from yin and wind changes from yang. Therefore, people who are troubled and miserable belong to the sun; Playing on a hot day belongs to Yangming. People who belong to the sun should sweat, and those who belong to Yangming should clear away heat, so sweating can drive out yang evil, and clearing away heat can break yang evil. The essence is those who sweat with osmanthus and clear heat with coix seed. Although lachryma-jobi of Coix lachryma not only treats rheumatism, but also restrains main muscle cramps, so it can't bend and stretch, the joints are painful and annoying, and the body is painful and annoying, so it can't rotate sideways. Why not use coix lachryma-jobi alone?
[Edit this paragraph] Harvest and storage
Tribute wine-10 has yellow stems and leaves and brown fruits, most of which are ripe.
(about 85% mature), cut off the plant, let it stand for 3-4 days, thresh and screen off the stem.
Sun-drying or drying impurities in leaves, and removing involucre and seed coat with sheller.
[Edit this paragraph] Cultivation of medicinal plants
Cultivation points: the climate is warm and humid, not afraid of drought, fertilizer tolerance and other biological characteristics. All kinds of soil can be planted, and it has strong tolerance to salt damage and water in saline-alkali land and swamp, but it is suitable for cultivation on sunny, fertile soil or clay. Avoid continuous cropping and rotation with gramineous crops. In recent years, cultivation on rice, especially in shallow water during heading and flowering, can significantly increase the yield. Cultivation techniques use seeds to propagate. To prevent head smut, soak the seeds in warm water at 60℃ 10-20min before sowing, take out the seeds, wrap them, and soak them in 5% quicklime water 1-2d to avoid damaging the membrane on the water surface. Rinse with clear water and sow, or soak the seeds with Bordeaux solution 1: 1: 100 for 24-72h, and sow in holes in March-April, with the row spacing of 27-30cm square, the hole depth of 5-7cm, 5-6 seeds per hole, covered with soil for 2-3cm, and pressed. 75-90kg should be planted per 1hm2.
3-4 true leaf seedlings are managed in the field, and 4-5 seedlings are left in each hole. Intertillage weeding is generally 3 times. Coix lachryma-jobi is a crop with high fertilizer requirement and strong fertilizer tolerance. In the early stage of growth, nitrogen fertilizer should be applied to raise seedlings, and more phosphorus and potassium fertilizers should be applied in the later stage to promote strong stalks and booting. The principles of wet, dry, water, wet and dry are adopted in field water management, that is, wet seedling raising, dry jointing, water booting, wet grouting and dry field harvesting. Different plants of Coix lachryma-jobi are pollinated, and the auxiliary pollination is to vibrate the plants with tools such as ropes when the plants are in full bloom (10- 12 am), so that the pollen can fly and the seed setting rate can be improved.
Pests and diseases control diseases including smut, pay attention to seed selection and seed treatment, and find diseases.
This plant should be pulled up and burned at once. There are diseases such as leaf blight. Insects are corn borer and armyworm.
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● Processing method
Stir-fried coix seed: put the washed coix seed in a pot and stir-fry it with slow fire until it is slightly yellow, then take it out and let it cool. Or fry with bran. (each coix seed 100 kg, bran10kg); On Lei Gong's baking: where one or two coix seeds are used, glutinous rice is used instead. If it is cooked with salt soup, it is also acceptable, especially in general.
● Identification of raw medicinal materials
The character recognition kernel is oval or rectangular, 4-8 mm long and 3-6 mm wide. The surface is milky white and smooth, with occasional yellowish brown seed coat. One end is blunt and round, and the other end is slightly concave, with 1 light brown punctate hilum. The back is round and convex, and the abdomen has 1 longitudinal groove. Solid mass, white silty cross section. Slight breath, slightly sweet taste. Large and full grain, white color, no broken skin is preferred. Microscopic identification of powder characteristics: the white-shaped main body is starch granules, single granule is round or polyhedral, with a diameter of 2-20μ m. The umbilical point is star-shaped, trigeminal, herringbone or fissure-shaped, and compound granules are rare, consisting of 2-3 sub-granules.
Sexual taste
Gan; Light; Minor Cold
Brief introduction of coix seed:
Coix lachryma-jobi is a mature seed kernel of Coix lachryma-jobi, an annual or perennial herb. 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. Coix seed is easy to digest and absorb, and the effect is very mild whether it is nourishing or medical treatment.
Coix seed has a long history of cultivation in China, and it is one of the ancient food varieties with the same origin of medicine and food. Produced in most parts of the country, mainly in Fujian, Hebei and other provinces. Coix seed is known as "the king of Gramineae in the world" and "the food of life and health" because of its high nutritional value. It has recently been listed as an anticancer food in Japan, so its value has doubled.
Nutritional analysis of coix seed;
1. Coix seed contains various vitamins and minerals, which can promote metabolism and reduce gastrointestinal burden, and can be used as tonic food for weak patients during or after illness;
2. 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 also effective for edema patients.
3. Modern pharmacological studies have proved that Coix lachryma-jobi seed has anti-cancer effect, and its effective anti-cancer components include selenium, which can effectively inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells and can be used for adjuvant treatment of gastric cancer and cervical cancer;
4. Healthy people often eat barley, which can make their bodies agile and reduce the occurrence of tumors;
5. Coix seed contains a certain amount of vitamin E, which is a beauty food. Regular consumption can keep human skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne and spots, improve skin color, and have a certain therapeutic effect on warts caused by virus infection.
6. Coix seed is rich in vitamin B, which is very beneficial to prevent beriberi.
Coix seed related group:
The general population can eat it.
1. Suitable for all kinds of cancer patients, arthritis, acute and chronic nephritis edema, cancerous ascites, facial edema, beriberi edema, warts, beauticians, young verruca plana, verruca vulgaris, molluscum contagiosum, young acne acne, other skin malnutrition, rough skin, and lung flaccid carbuncle.
2. According to the previous experience, women should not eat in the early pregnancy; In addition, people who sweat less and are constipated should not eat it.
Therapeutic effects of coix seed;
Coix seed is sweet, light and slightly cold, and belongs to spleen, stomach and lung meridians;
Has the effects of invigorating spleen, promoting diuresis, eliminating arthralgia, clearing away heat and pus, and clearing away damp-heat;
Can be used for treating diarrhea, tendon contracture, adverse flexion and extension, edema, beriberi, intestinal carbuncle, stranguria, leucorrhea, etc.
Job's tears production guide:
1. Raw coix seed soup is conducive to eliminating dampness and expelling wind; Strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, treating diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, cooked food should be fried.
2. Coix seed can be used as food, porridge or soup. Winter melon soup in summer and autumn can be eaten with meals, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis.
3. Boil the fresh milk, add appropriate amount of coix seed powder, and stir well to serve. Regular consumption can keep the skin shiny and delicate, and eliminate acne, freckles, age spots, pregnancy spots and butterfly spots.
4. Coix seed is difficult to cook, so it needs to be soaked in warm water for 2-3 hours before cooking, so that it can fully absorb water. It is easy to cook with other rice after absorbing water.
[Edit this paragraph] Dietotherapy value
Seeds of Coix lachryma-jobi, a Gramineae herb. Also known as coix seed, coix seed, coix seed bead and water corn. Coix lachryma-jobi is also known as Coix lachryma-jobi and grass pearl. Distributed in most parts of China, mostly cultivated. Fruits are harvested in autumn. Remove the shell and yellow-brown skin, collect the seeds, dry them in the sun, eat them raw or fry them.
[Taste] Sweet, light and slightly cold. It can strengthen the spleen and stomach, benefit the moon, remove dampness, relieve contracture and clear lung heat.
[Reference] contains protein, fat, starch, sugar, vitamin B 1, coix seed, coix seed ester, leucine, lysine, arginine, tyrosine and other amino acids.
Coix seed has antipyretic, sedative, analgesic and skeletal muscle contraction inhibiting effects. Some extracts of this product have certain inhibitory effects on Ehrlich ascites carcinoma, sarcoma 180 and cervical cancer in animals, and promote cellular immunity and humoral immunity.
【 Usage 】 Used for spleen and stomach weakness, diarrhea in loose stool, or women's illness, edema due to spleen deficiency and dampness, dysuria, or swelling and pain of beriberi; Damp-heat arthralgia, hand and foot contracture and soreness; Pulmonary carbuncle with expectoration or acute abdominal pain due to intestinal pain. In addition, it is now used for digestive tract tumors, cervical cancer tumors and verruca plana.
[Usage] Decoct soup, cook porridge, or grind into powder.
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1, stasis-removing Bauer porridge: 60g of coix seed and 60g of yam, mashed into coarse powder, boiled in water until cooked, 25g of persimmon cream cake, chopped, dissolved and taken at will.
Originated in The Journey to the West. Yam and coix seed are drugs for clearing spleen and lung; Persimmon cream cake is made of persimmon cream, which can moisten the lungs and benefit the spleen. For spleen and lung yin deficiency, lazy diet, deficiency-heat cough.
2. Coix seed porridge: Coix seed is ground into coarse powder and divided equally with japonica rice. Boil porridge with water, 1~2 times, once a day, for several days.
From Compendium of Materia Medica. This recipe uses coix seed to cook porridge to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Used for spleen edema, rheumatic joint pain, limb contracture, etc.
3. Plum rice: 60g plums, ground and filtered with water; 200 grams of coix seed, cooked with dark plum juice. Eat it twice.
Originated from "loneliness". This recipe can induce diuresis and reduce swelling. The effect of dark plum kernel is similar to that of coix seed. It tastes slightly bitter and unpalatable, and is only used for juicing. Used for edema, dysuria, wheezing and chest distress.
4. Coix seed, melon petal and peach kernel soup: Coix seed 15g, winter melon seed 30g, peach kernel 10g and peony bark 6g. Decoct with water.
Originated from "A Thousand Daughters Must Be Prescribed". Coix seed with winter melon seeds can clear away heat, promote diuresis and expel pus; The combination of peach kernel and peony bark can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Used for abdominal pain due to intestinal carbuncle, palpable mass in the right lower abdomen, constipation, short and red urine, etc. Peony bark tastes bitter and turbid, and honeysuckle and dandelion can be used to clear away heat and detoxify.
5, Coix seed water chestnut Scutellaria barbata soup: Coix seed, water chestnut, Scutellaria barbata each 30g. Decoct the soup with water and take it twice.
This prescription has a certain inhibitory effect on tumors, especially Scutellaria barbata. Can be used for gastric cancer, cervical cancer, etc.
6. Coix seed soup: Coix seed 60g, Arnebia euchroma 6g. Add water to make soup. Take it twice for 2-4 weeks.
This prescription has certain curative effect on juvenile verruca plana and verruca vulgaris.