Umbilical cord: It is a scar left by the seed falling off the stem or placenta after maturity, which is often round or oval.

Usually what we use to make millet is "millet" without shell, which is called "caryopsis" academically.

In the process of hulling millet, the germ is removed with the hull, leaving only the endosperm. In fact, we only eat a part of millet seeds.

And that dot should be the part where the stem or placenta was connected at the beginning, so I think it is more appropriate to call it "navel"

As a traditional Chinese medicine, it is sweet and slightly cold, which is beneficial to edema, spleen dampness, heat clearing and pus discharge. As a beauty food, it has the effects of keeping skin shiny and delicate, eliminating acne, freckles and rough skin. Generally speaking, job's tears have many functions. We should make good use of job's tears to preserve our health.

The efficacy and function of coix seed raw coix seed are cold, and diuresis and dampness are the best. It can dispel dampness and expel wind, clear away heat and expel pus, remove arthralgia and relieve pain, and has obvious effects on dysuria, edema, beriberi and rheumatic pain. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that drugs with the function of strengthening the spleen, after being fried with bran, can enhance the curative effect and reduce the medicinal properties of some drugs with severe effects. If you have a bad spleen and stomach, you can't eat anything, or if you eat something, you will have abdominal distension and always feel uncomfortable. Adding a handful of bran-fried coix seed to porridge and cooking together can effectively relieve anorexia and bloating. When people usually eat coix seed, most of them cook soup and porridge directly. You can also stew melon with barley. Because winter melon tastes sweet and cold, its efficacy is famous for diuresis and detumescence. It is a good product for treating edema and losing weight. Eating with coix seed, just like the same direction in physics, has a greater effect. The biggest function of this soup is diuresis, detumescence and weight loss. It is very suitable for people with edema symptoms and obesity, and has a certain curative effect on joint pain of limbs, unfavorable flexion and extension, and turbid leucorrhea. Winter melon is cold. When stewed with barley, you must add onions and ginger that can dispel the cold.

The simplest way to eat coix seed is to soak the fried coix seed in water as tea, or grind the fried coix seed and take coix seed powder every day. It is also good to cook porridge with adzuki beans.