Coix lachryma? Todd. ) Also called: Coix lacryma-jobi, Coix lacryma-jobi and Liuguzi, which are the seeds of Coix lacryma-jobi in Gramineae. It is cool in nature, sweet and light in taste, and enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians, which is beneficial to water and spleen, removing arthralgia, clearing heat and expelling pus. Coix seed is born in warm and humid ten squares and valleys, and it is common below 2000 meters above sea level.

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morphological character

Nuts are oval or oval, 4 ~ 8 mm long and 3 ~ 6 mm wide. The surface is milky white, and occasionally light brown seed coat remains. One end is blunt and round, the other end is slightly concave, and there is a light brown spotted hilum. The back is round and convex, and the ventral surface has a longitudinal groove with a width of 1. Solid, white part, powder. Slight breath, slightly sweet taste.

The flowers are unisexual, monoecious, and the male spikelets are arranged on the spike axis in a tile shape, and the female spikelets are located below the male spikelets, wrapped by oval hard involucres, and gradually become beads after maturity. The flowering period is July-August, and the fruiting period is 9-65438+1October.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Coix Seed