Job's tears belong to the grass family, annual or perennial herbs. Its culms are erect and stout, branched, and can grow to 1-2 meters high and tufted. The leaves are linear-lanceolate with a thick midvein. Spikes, white. Monoecious. Fruit oval, size of a soybean. Seed kernel white, shaped like a small pearl. Guilin region has a mild climate, fertile and moist soil, especially suitable for the growth of Job's tears. Here Job's tear grains yield is higher than the other places, generally 200-300 pounds per mu, high up to more than 600 pounds.
C薏米是补身药用佳品。 According to the medical department laboratory analysis, barley contains 16.2% protein, 4.6% fat, carbohydrate 79.2%. Winter with barley stewed pig's feet, ribs and chicken, is a nourishing food. Summer with barley porridge or as a cold drink ice barley, and is a very good summer fitness clear tonic. Job's seed kernel and root can also be used as medicine to cure diseases. Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded: Job's tears can "strengthen the spleen and stomach, lungs and clear heat, wind and dampness. Cooking food, treatment of cold air. Decoction to drink, facilitate urination of hot showers." In recent years, a large number of scientific research and clinical practice has proved that Job's Tears is also an anti-cancer drugs, preliminary identification, it can be up to 35% or more of the cancer treatment inhibition rate. No wonder there is a folk song in Guilin area sang: "Job's tear is better than ganoderma lucidum grass, medicinal nutritional value is high, often eat can prolong the life of the old man and children to make a difference."