Many people know that barley is a good tool for eliminating dampness, so many people like to put a lot of barley porridge at home to remove water from the body. However, many people often insist on stopping cooking glutinous rice porridge for a period of time because it is very troublesome, and finally they haven't removed the water from their bodies. In fact, it's not that coix seed can't work, but that it doesn't insist on taking it. The effect of eliminating dampness is obvious to all. However, how long it takes to get rid of dampness is uncertain, depending on personal physique. It takes more than three or five times to achieve the effect of diet therapy. It is unrealistic to try to solve any problem at once. Anyway, if you eat too much, the effect will always be there, but some people have better effects and some people have slower effects.

Now let's learn about the benefits of coix seed!

1. diuresis and detumescence

Coix seed pill has the functions of osmosis, diuresis, detumescence, spleen strengthening and middle energizer strengthening. It is often used to treat abdominal distension, dysuria, edema and beriberi edema caused by spleen deficiency and dampness.

2. Diarrhea due to spleen deficiency

Coix seed can disperse spleen dampness, strengthen spleen and stop diarrhea, especially good at treating diarrhea caused by spleen deficiency and dampness.

3. Humidity and paralysis

Coix lachryma-jobi can remove arthralgia, relax tendons and relieve spasm, and can be used to treat spleen deficiency and excessive dampness, spasm and pain of tendons and veins.

4. Clear intestines and discharge pus

Coix seed can clear intestinal heat, expel pus and eliminate carbuncle, and can be used to treat lung carbuncle, chest pain, expectoration and intestinal carbuncle.

Whitening skin

Coix lachryma-jobi contains a certain amount of vitamin E, which helps to maintain the luster and fineness of human skin, eliminate acne and pigmentation, and improve skin color. And it has a certain therapeutic effect on warts caused by virus infection.

But not all people with heavy water can eat coix seed, especially the people below.

1. People with deficiency and cold constitution, because Coix seed itself is sweet, cold and cold food. So eating barley will make the body cold, so people with deficiency and cold constitution can't eat barley.

2. Women should avoid using coix seed during menstruation, because the body is cold during menstruation and coix seed is a cold food. During menstruation, coix seed can seriously cause menstrual disorders.

People with indigestion can't eat coix seed, because the sugar contained in coix seed is sticky and may hinder digestion, so people with indigestion can't eat coix seed.

Pregnant women should never eat coix seed, because coix seed has diuretic effect and is a kind of medicine and food homologous thing. Pharmacological experiments have proved that coix seed can excite female uterine smooth muscle, which may cause imbalance of sodium and potassium ions in the body, promote uterine contraction, and easily lead to miscarriage of pregnant women, so pregnant women should never eat coix seed.