Coix seed is slightly cold. Therefore, patients with severe deficiency-cold of the spleen and stomach, pregnant women, people with weak constitution and lack of water, and people who often have chapped lips and thirst are not suitable for taking Coix seed porridge or simple Coix seed food for a long time. Therefore, we must choose the appropriate medicinal materials according to the principle of "taking it without sex" in traditional Chinese medicine. For example, when eating barley porridge, mix some peppers to take the heat of peppers to resist the cold of barley; Or cooked with widely circulated nourishing Ophiopogon japonicus and Radix Rehmanniae.
Exercise:
1. Coix seed soup: Wash, add 5 bowls of water and slowly fry for about 3 or 4 hours. Filter out the soup first. Add 2 bowls of water to the coix seed residue and decoct for half an hour.
2. Coix seed tea: Coix seed is fried and ground into coarse powder. Lotus leaf, raw hawthorn and orange peel are all ground into coarse powder. Mix the above four materials evenly, divide them into 100 parts, and put them into paper bags for brewing. One kilogram of coix seed, 800 grams of leaves, one kilogram of hawthorn and 500 grams of skin.
3. Lotus seed soup: soak lotus seeds, red dates, Gordon Euryale seed and Coix seed in water for 30 minutes, then put longan meat together in the pot, cook it with slow fire until it is cooked, and add honey to taste. Longan meat greatly tonifies the vitality, lotus seeds strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, and coix seed and Euryale euryales are the products for strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis.