Barley tea is made by frying barley and boiling it. It has a strong wheat flavor, and has the effects of invigorating the spleen and promoting digestion, clearing away heat and quenching thirst, regulating qi and promoting diuresis. Barley tea is mainly used for clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating spleen and losing weight, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, removing fishy smell and greasy, helping digestion, moistening skin and blackening hair.

Barley tea can also be used for:

(1) Overeating, chest distress and abdominal distension, frying black clothes and grinding them have the functions of diminishing inflammation, reducing swelling, harmonizing middle energizer and stopping diarrhea.

(2) Children who accumulate food, are sallow and emaciated, the elderly and the weak, and those who eat less and are weak, take coix seed with sugar to benefit qi and strengthen the stomach.

(3) Gastrointestinal ulcer, with barley as the staple food, can calm stomach qi and stop dull pain.

(4) Clearing away heat and quenching thirst, decocting barley with water to make tea, clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, and quenching thirst.