Produced in most areas, mainly in Fujian, Liaoning and Hebei.
For food.
Let's take a look at the efficacy and function of coix seed.
1, the health care function of coix seed
This taste is sweet, light and cold.
Entering the spleen, lung and kidney meridians is a health food for strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis.
Daily consumption can strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote diuresis and eliminate dampness, strengthen bones and muscles and clear internal heat.
Suitable for people with phlegm-dampness constitution, heat constitution and disease-free fitness.
Common health recipes such as barley porridge.
2. The therapeutic effect of coix seed.
This product is more suitable for people with large and full particles and pure white color. Its main dietotherapy functions are invigorating spleen, diuresis, clearing away heat and expelling pus.
It is specifically applied to the following aspects:
(1) is used for diarrhea, dysuria, edema, stranguria, beriberi, leucorrhea, damp arthralgia and muscle spasm.
Can be used with wax gourd and red beans.
This product is cold, diuretic and heat-clearing, and is also suitable for damp-heat stranguria.
② Used for lung carbuncle and intestinal carbuncle.
Can be used with adzuki bean, wax gourd kernel and peach kernel.
In addition, it can also be used to quench thirst and yellow.
Modern medicine has been used for the prevention and treatment of pulmonary edema, wet pleurisy, chronic gastroenteropathy, ulcer, urinary tract infection, appendicitis, rheumatoid arthritis, verruca plana and cancer.
3. Several small prescriptions about the efficacy of coix seed.
(1) Coix seed yam porridge: 50g of Coix seed, 0/00g of yam, cooked with seasoning.
Used for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency.
(2) Coix seed, winter melon and red bean soup: 30 grams of Coix seed, 200 grams of winter melon and 30 grams of red beans are boiled.
Used for dysuria and edema.
(3) Coix seed porridge: grind Coix seed, cook porridge with japonica rice, and eat it every day. It can be used for long-term rheumatism, tendon contracture, thirst quenching and drinking water, invigorating vital qi, benefiting stomach, eliminating edema and eliminating chest evil (Compendium of Materia Medica); Another recipe is to cook porridge with coix seed and japonica rice, which is used to dehumidify and benefit the waist and feet (the diet debate of conditioning diseases); This prescription can also be used for verruca plana.
(4) Coix seed wine: Coix seed powder, brewed with koji rice or boiled in bags.
Used for expelling wind and removing dampness, strengthening bones and muscles, and strengthening spleen and stomach (Compendium of Materia Medica).