1, which has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on heart disease, nephropathy and edema.
2. It has the characteristics of high fiber and low fat, and has good effects of relaxing bowels, lowering blood pressure, reducing blood fat, regulating blood sugar, detoxifying and resisting cancer, preventing calculus, and keeping fit and losing weight.
3. Conducive to detumescence, invigorating spleen and removing dampness, relaxing tendons and removing arthralgia, clearing away heat and expelling pus, etc. It is a commonly used diuretic and osmolytic drug.
Coix seed is also a kind of beauty food. Regular consumption can keep the skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne, spotted finches, senile spots, pregnancy spots and butterfly spots, and has a good effect on dandruff, acne, chapped skin and rough skin.
5. Coix seed is a good medicinal material. According to the analysis of medical department, Coix seed contains protein 16.2%, fat 4.6% and sugar 79.2%. Braised pork feet, ribs and chicken with coix seed in winter is a nourishing food.
6. Cooking porridge with coix seed or making iced drinks with coix seed in summer is also a good tonic for summer heat and fitness.
Extended data:
Taboo of red bean and barley water;
(1) Pregnant women should not eat highland barley and red bean porridge: We know that in the process of pregnancy, women's digestive organs will "shift", leading to digestive dysfunction, and human water and toxins cannot be eliminated in time. Although barley red bean porridge has the function of removing moisture, because barley is relatively cold, it is easy for pregnant women to stimulate contractions and even cause premature delivery or miscarriage, so it can be replaced by medlar red bean porridge.
(2) People with gastrointestinal diseases should eat less: for example, gastric ulcer or intestinal obstruction, and eating glutinous rice and red bean porridge is not easy to digest, causing physical discomfort.
(3) People with constipation should not eat too much glutinous rice and red bean porridge: for the same reason, it will aggravate constipation.
(4) Don't add rice when cooking porridge: it will weaken the dehumidification effect of coix seed.
References:
Benefits and taboos of red bean and barley water-People's Daily Online