The common method is to cook porridge with coix seed. The specific method is: Wash 50 grams of Coix seed, put it in aluminum pot, then add a proper amount of water, first boil it with strong fire, and then simmer it with slow fire. After the coix lachryma-jobi porridge is cooked, you can add some sugar to eat. Chinese medicine believes that coix seed has the effect of invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, so taking this porridge often has therapeutic effect on spleen and stomach weakness, rheumatoid arthritis, edema, verruca plana and other diseases. Healthy people often drink it, which can enhance appetite, prevent diseases and keep fit. In winter, if you take 30 grams of coix seed, add red dates and glutinous rice to cook porridge, and add appropriate amount of sugar after porridge is cooked, you can make a soft and fragrant winter tonic. If you eat it every day, you will certainly benefit.
Coix seed has high nutritional value, and the content of protein is much higher than that of rice and flour. Eight kinds of amino acids necessary for human body are complete, and the proportion is close to human needs. Fat is rich in linoleic acid; B vitamins and inorganic salts such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and zinc are also quite abundant. Coix seed contains a lot of vitamin B 1, which is beneficial to improve rough skin, acne, black spots and freckles, and is a good helper for beauty care. But also easy to be digested and absorbed, which is beneficial to reducing the burden on the stomach and strengthening the physique. Coix seed has the functions of invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, tonifying lung, clearing away heat and expelling wind. Has high medicinal value.
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Nutrition of coix seed
Coix seed has high nutritional value, with protein 13.7%, fat 5.4% and carbohydrate 64.7%. Protein is much higher than rice and rice. Eight kinds of amino acids necessary for human body are complete, and the proportion is close to human needs. Fat is rich in linoleic acid; B vitamins and inorganic salts such as calcium, phosphorus, iron and zinc are also quite abundant. But also easy to be digested and absorbed, which is beneficial to reducing the burden on the stomach and strengthening the physique.
Medical use of coix seed
Chinese medicine believes that coix seed is sweet and light in taste, slightly cold in nature, and enters the spleen, kidney and lung meridians, and has the functions of diuresis, strengthening the spleen, stopping diarrhea, clearing heat and removing arthralgia. Compendium of Materia Medica records that Coix lachryma-jobi "tonifies the spleen and stomach, tonifies the lung, clears away heat, and dispels wind and dampness", while the Classic of Materia Medica records that Coix lachryma-jobi "has muscle contracture, can't flex and stretch, and is arthralgia due to rheumatism". With the increase of age, the elderly at home are generally weak in liver and kidney, and the onset of rheumatism is often more serious, especially in winter. The so-called "winter disease is cured in summer", so now is the right time. In addition, coix seed also has the effect of clearing fire and beautifying.
Coix seed can fight cancer.
In addition, coix seed also contains two kinds of sitosterols with high medicinal value, namely coix seed alcohol and β-γ, which are special components, which is the mystery of its anticancer effect. Use coix seed 25-50g, water chestnut 150-20g (cut into pieces with shell) and * * to boil thick juice, 1 twice a day, and the course of treatment is 1, which can inhibit the development of cancer cells such as gastric cancer, uterine cancer and skin cancer.
Imik beauty
Coix seed is also a kind of beauty food, which can keep the skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne, spotted finches, senile spots, pregnancy spots and butterfly spots, and has a good curative effect on dandruff, acne, chapped skin and rough skin. Regular consumption of coix seed food is also effective for chronic enteritis and dyspepsia. Normal and healthy people often eat highland barley food, which can not only dispel dampness and diuresis, but also make their bodies light and smart, and reduce the chance of cancer. How to eat Coix seed powder: 3-5g of cooked Coix seed powder, twice in the morning and evening, with warm water. Moisturize the skin after meals, whiten and moisturize, promote qi and blood circulation, regulate menstruation and relieve pain. Soaking 5 grams of cooked Coix seed powder in 500 ml of warm boiled water as a tea drink can quench thirst, induce diuresis and reduce swelling, and clear away heat and toxic materials. It has the functions of nourishing hair and preventing and treating diseases. 3. Slimming soup: Boil fresh milk, add 3-5g coix seed powder and stir. Moisturizing, whitening, moisturizing, promoting qi circulation, regulating menstruation, relieving pain, expelling body fat and losing weight. 4. Coix seed porridge: Wash rice 15g, mung bean 15g and Coix seed 15g, and add water to cook porridge. Can directly satisfy hunger. You can also add mung bean powder to make bean paste and cook it into mung bean and barley porridge. Both mung bean and barley have diuretic and edema-improving effects. Coix seed itself has the effect of fading dark spots and whitening skin, while mung bean has the effect of detoxification, allowing toxins in the body to be discharged as soon as possible. For mm who loves beauty, job's tears porridge not only has whitening effect, but also is a low-calorie slimming food. 6. acne glutinous rice porridge: 50 grams of glutinous rice, sugar 15 grams. Usage: Coix seed is boiled into porridge and washed with white sugar once a day. (China folk prescription) 7. Lily and barley porridge
Wash 50 grams of Coicis Semen and 0/5 grams of Lily/kloc-,put them into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook until Coicis Semen is hot and rotten, add honey, and mix well to serve.
Features: Sweet, hot and waxy, slightly fragrant, this porridge can strengthen the spleen and stomach, moisturize and remove spots if eaten frequently. Can be used for treating female facial freckles, acne, eczema and other symptoms, and is beneficial to beautifying girls. 8. Cao Qian's rice porridge
Put 30g of Lysimachia christinae in a casserole, add water and boil for half an hour, filter the residue to leave juice, add 0/00g of Italian rice/kloc-and cook into porridge, and add appropriate amount of sugar to serve.
【 Efficacy 】 Diuretic, lithagogue and stranguria.
[Indications] kidney calculi and urinary calculi. 9. Yam glutinous rice porridge
【 Ingredients 】 Rhizoma Dioscoreae and Coicis Semen each 30g, lotus seed meat 15g, jujube 10, millet 50g, and a little sugar.
[Production] Slice the yam, remove the core from the lotus seeds and remove the core from the red dates. After washing, cook porridge with millet, add sugar and mix well.
[Usage] Take it twice a day on an empty stomach.
[Efficacy] Spleen and qi. It is suitable for spleen and stomach weakness, anorexia, abdominal distension, loose stool, weakness of limbs, senile edema, and leukorrhagia.
【 Precautions 】 Constipation should not be eaten 10. Lily and barley porridge for gout.
Coix seed porridge can provide patients with the necessary calorie requirements, has a direct therapeutic effect on gout, and can improve the symptoms of arthritis, and is an ideal staple food for gout patients. In clinical treatment, it is found that under the principle of low purine diet, it is very effective for gout patients to take lily and barley porridge as their staple food.
60g of dried lily, 60g of Coix seed and 60g of stem rice are washed and put into a pot to cook porridge. Take it twice a day in the middle and evening, and take it continuously. After the symptoms get better, stick to it at least once or twice a week to prevent gout from recurring. 1 1. Because coix seed is cold, it can't be taken during menstruation and pregnancy.
External use method: whitening mask method 1: Wash about 100g of Coicis Semen, soak it in a pot for 3 hours, and then cook it with low fire for 10 minute until it is rotten. Pour the boiled coix seed soup into a container and put it in the refrigerator for refrigeration. If necessary, pour a little coix seed soup, add milk, drop 2-3 drops of honey and mix well, and use mask paper. Apply the soaked mask paper to your face 15 minutes. Method 2: Mix 25-30g of Coicis Semen powder with appropriate amount of milk to make paste, then add 2-3 drops of honey and stir evenly, clean the face, apply the mixed paste to the face, and wash it with clear water after 20 minutes. My skin feels tight. Method 3: Add half of 25g of coix seed powder. After 20 minutes, rinse with clear water. I feel very refreshing. Method 4: Dry skin is suitable for the mask of coix seed and honey, and oily skin is suitable for the mask of coix seed and milk. Method 1: Mix 20 grams of Coix seed and a spoonful of pearl powder with water to make a paste, clean the face, and wash it with clear water after 20 minutes. Can whiten and remove spots: make skin shiny and delicate. Pigment spots can be eliminated. Method 2: Mix 20 grams of Coicis Semen powder and one spoonful of mung bean powder into paste with purified water, apply it to your face after cleansing, and wash it with clear water after 20 minutes. It can whiten skin, fade dark spots and help to lose weight. (Face-lifting is very effective) Method 3: Mix 20 grams of Coicis Semen powder and a spoonful of green tea powder into paste with purified water, apply it to your face after cleansing, and wash it with water after 20 minutes. In addition to whitening skin, it also has bactericidal effect and has special effect on acne suppuration.