General stir-frying 20 minutes or so, found barley yellow is cooked.

Barley is a variety of the plant Coix lacryma-jobi (scientific name: Coixlacryma-jobiL.) of the family Gramineae and the genus Coix lacryma, also known as Coix lacryma-jobi, Coix lacryma, Coix lacryma-jobi, etc. It is an annual herb. Annual. Culms 1-1.5 m tall, with 6-10 nodes, much branched. Leaf blades broadly spreading, glabrous. Racemes axillary. Female spikelets are located in the lower part of the inflorescence, subtended by a crustaceous involucre; involucre ellipsoid, apex cervical-beaked. Caryopsis large, oblong, 5-8 mm long, 4-6 mm wide, 3-4 mm thick, broadly furrowed ventrally, with a brown umbilicus at the base, powdery firm, white or yellowish white in texture. Male spikelets ca. 9 mm long, ca. 5 mm wide; stamens 3, anthers 3-4 mm long. Flowering and fruiting period July-December.

Distributed in tropical and subtropical Asia, mainly in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Java, Indonesia, Philippines and China. Born in the warm and humid ten side of the ground and valley streams and gullies, altitude of 2000 meters below the more common.

Barley is a high-quality small grains, in the grass family rice, wheat, corn, etc., it is the first nutrition. Job's tears are rich in nutrition, it contains protein, fat, a variety of vitamins and trace elements B1, B2, C and calcium, phosphorus, iron and so on. For food and medicine, with spleen and stomach, lungs and heat, lowering blood lipids, can prevent cardiovascular, cancer and other diseases. The chaff can be used as concentrate feed, set aside the fresh tiller and stem broken for pigs and cattle feed, the root can be drunk as tea, with heat, diuresis, spleen effect, but also for toothache.