Coix lachryma-jobi seed is a commonly used Chinese medicine, and it is also a common and frequently eaten food. Sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature, it is beneficial to water swelling, invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, relaxing muscles and tendons and relieving pain, clearing heat and expelling pus, and is a commonly used diuretic. Coix seed is also a kind of beauty food, which can keep the skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne, freckles, senile spots, pregnancy spots and butterfly spots, and has a good curative effect on dandruff, acne and chapped skin.

Coix seed can also promote blood circulation and water metabolism in the body, play the role of diuresis and detumescence, and help to improve edema and obesity. Coix seed water is a good detoxification method. Coix seed is directly boiled with boiling water and added with a little sugar, which is suitable for personal taste and is a natural skin care product for whitening skin.

2. wax gourd

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that wax gourd is sweet in taste and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Wax gourd has low sodium content, which has a good auxiliary treatment effect on arteriosclerosis, ascites due to cirrhosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, nephritis and edema. Life Taste Diet Spectrum: "If pregnant women eat regularly, they will poison the fetus and make the child disease-free."

3. Oenanthe javanica

Oenanthe javanica is sweet and flat. It can clear away heat and promote diuresis, stop bleeding and lower blood pressure. Can be used for treating common cold, fever, vomiting and diarrhea, urinary tract infection, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, and hypertension. Calming the liver, lowering blood pressure, calming the nerves, inducing diuresis, resisting cancer and caring skin, stimulating appetite, protecting the stomach, resolving phlegm and lowering blood sugar.