One advantage of barley and red bean porridge is that it won't be sticky after boiling. There is always rotten red beans and barley under it, and there is reddish soup on it. Most of the effective components of coix seed and red beans are in the soup. When cooking porridge, put enough water at a time. These soups can be used as sweet tea companions with a handful of rock sugar. Adding rice means adding water, so the whole porridge is thicker. Although the taste may be better, it is not good for health. Because that handful of rice, red beans and barley are wasted, it has no effect. Wash the red beans and barley, add water to the electric pressure cooker, and stop automatically according to the porridge cooking function. If you use an ordinary pot or a ceramic stew pot, it is recommended to soak the barley before going to bed and fry the red beans in the pot for a while when cooking the next day, which will not only save time and effort, but also make the beans rot quickly. Coix lachryma-jobi is known as "the king of Gramineae in the world" because of its high nutritional value.

Coix seed is edible, tastes like rice, is easy to digest and absorb, and can be used to cook porridge and soup. Winter melon soup in summer and autumn can be eaten with meals, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. Because of its rich nutrition, coix seed is a good medicated diet for the elderly, pregnant women, children with chronic diseases, the weak and the convalescent period after illness, and can be taken frequently. Whether it is nourishing or treating diseases, the effect is very mild, slightly cold does not hurt the stomach, and the spleen is not greasy. It is reported that coix seed component coix seed ester not only has nourishing effect, but also is an anticancer agent, which can inhibit Ehrlich ascites cancer cells and can be used for gastric cancer and cervical cancer. Has diuretic, arthralgia relieving and analgesic effects, and can be used for treating dysuria, beriberi and rheumatic arthralgia. However, raw coix seed should not be taken for a long time because of its cold medicinal properties.

Stir-frying coix seed is to take clean coix seed and stir-fry it with slow fire until it is slightly yellow. When it expands, take it out and let it cool. Slightly burnt, slightly fragrant. And then drying to obtain fried Coicis Semen. After frying, the medicinal properties of coix seed tend to be mild, and the effect of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis is better. People move less, eat more, love to stay up late, eat more, are fat and greasy, and have great pressure in life, so they are prone to spleen deficiency and dampness, and have symptoms such as dizziness, heavy weight, lazy limbs and thick and greasy tongue coating. At this time, they can choose to eat fried barley to strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis. Stir-fry medicinal wheat bran, that is, stir-fry coix seed and wheat bran together. Sprinkle wheat bran when the pot is hot, and the dosage is one tenth of that of coix seed. When heated to smoke, add clean Coicis Semen, stir-fry until the surface is yellow and swollen, and take out. Sift off the wheat bran, let it cool, and it has a faint fragrance. According to the different degree of stir-frying of traditional Chinese medicine, this aroma can be divided into yellow stir-frying, coke stir-frying and charcoal stir-frying Stir-frying yellow refers to stir-frying with slow fire until the inherent aroma of medicinal materials or when the fragrance explodes. Stir-frying can alleviate the excessive preference of drugs, and at the same time, it can also emit fragrance, regulate qi and relieve depression.

On the one hand, it calms the medicinal properties, on the other hand, it also enhances the function of strengthening the spleen. The spleen strengthening effect of bran-fried coix seed is better than that of fried coix seed. Therefore, if you have spleen deficiency, frequent diarrhea, eat less and have more abdominal distension, you can choose bran fried coix seed, and the effect will be better. For example, some people tend to have loose bowels, knowing that coix seed can treat diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, and often boil coix seed soup, but it has no effect. This is because raw barley is cold. If you cook porridge with fried barley or drink a spoonful of tea, the effect is obvious. Bran frying is more effective than single frying of coix seed. Modern people have great mental stress, lack of heart-qi, poor diet, little exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. It is necessary to eliminate dampness, nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen and stomach. Grinding Coicis Semen and Red Bean into powder aims to make its effective components fully absorbed by human body without causing any burden to the spleen and stomach. Never add rice to cooked barley and red beans. Because rice grows in water and contains moisture, it is wet and sticky, so it will thicken after cooking. Red beans and barley are not wet, so they are not thick. Chinese medicine uses its pure nature to remove moisture from human body. As soon as the rice is put and the water is put, the whole porridge will thicken. Although it tastes better, it is useless because that handful of rice, red beans and barley are wasted.