Coix lachryma-jobi is the kernel of Coix lachryma-jobi. It is cool in nature, sweet and light in taste, and enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians, which is beneficial to water and spleen, removing arthralgia, clearing heat and expelling pus.

Red beans: Red beans belong to Mimosaceae, which are sweet, sour, flat and non-toxic. It belongs to lung, heart and spleen, and has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, eliminating dampness and relieving itching, moistening skin and caring skin.

Black bean: Black seed of leguminous soybean. Black beans are sweet and flat in nature, and have the functions of expelling wind and clearing heat, regulating middle qi, detoxifying and diuresis, tonifying kidney and nourishing blood.

Buckwheat: Sweet and cool, it can stimulate appetite, moisten intestines and relieve constipation, and eliminate stagnation. Treat strangulation, gastrointestinal stagnation and chronic diarrhea.

Wheat: Sweet and cool. Nourish the heart and kidney, clear away heat and quench thirst. It can be used for treating visceral impatience, heat annoyance, dew-shedding, constipation, carbuncle, traumatic hemorrhage and scald.

Lentils: Sweet and flat, belonging to the stomach meridian, have the effects of strengthening the spleen, harmonizing the middle warmer, benefiting qi, eliminating dampness and relieving summer heat.

Rice: Sweet in taste and flat in nature, it has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer, strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing essence and strengthening the brain, harmonizing the five internal organs, dredging blood vessels, improving hearing and eyesight, relieving annoyance and thirst, and stopping diarrhea.

After cooking porridge, it is similar to eight-treasure porridge, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, eliminating food stagnation and losing weight, benefiting qi and calming the nerves.