Job's tears are also known as medicinal corn, water corn, late Nianzhu, six-grain fans, stone corn, Coix rice, belonging to a kind of graminaceous plants, in the life of everyone is also more common, for the efficacy of Job's tears as well as the value of food have a certain understanding, especially in the help of eliminating the dampness of the time, often eat Job's tears porridge such a simple practice believe that we are all very familiar with, but do you know that in addition to help the But do you know that in addition to helping to eliminate dampness accident, Coix lacryma has what effect?

Morphological Characteristics of Job's tears

A robust annual herb with yellowish-white fibrous roots, spongy, about 3 mm in diameter. Culms are erect and tufted, 1-2 meters high, with more than 10 nodes, nodes much branched. Leaf sheaths shorter than their internodes, glabrous; ligules scarious, ca. 1 mm; leaf blades flattened and broad, spreading, 10-40 cm long, 1.5-3 cm wide, base rounded or subcordate, midvein thick, elevated below, margins scabrous, usually glabrous. Racemes axillary into bundles, 4-10 cm long, erect or pendulous, long pedunculate. Female spikelets in lower part of inflorescence, subtended by bony moniliform involucre, which is ovoid, 7-10 mm long, 6-8 mm in diameter, enameled, hard, glossy; first glume ovoid, apically acuminate-beaked, with more than 10 veins, enclosing the second glume and the first lemma; second lemma shorter than the glumes, 3-veined, the second palea smaller; stamens often reduced; pistil with elongate stigma, protruding from the tip of the involucre. Pistil with slender stigma, projecting from tip of involucre. Caryopsis small, containing little starch, often not full. Male spikelets 2-3 pairs, inserted in upper part of raceme, 1-2 cm long; sessile male spikelet 6-7 mm long, first glume herbaceous, margins inflexed into ridges, with unequal wings, tip obtuse, with numerous veins, second glume navicular; lemmas and palea membranous; first and second florets often with 3 stamens, anthers orange-yellow, 4-5 mm long; pedicellate male spikelet similar to sessile, or smaller and with varying degree of The stalked male spikelets are similar to the sessile ones, or smaller and in different degrees of degeneration.

Geographical Distribution of Job's tears

Produced in Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other provinces and regions; it is distributed in southeastern Asia and the Pacific Islands, and is planted or escaped from the hot wetland zones of the world's tropics, subtropics, Africa, and America.

The efficacy and role of Job's tears

Functions: Strengthening the spleen, tonifying the lungs, clearing heat and inducing dampness. It is used to treat diarrhea, dampness paralysis, contracture of tendons and veins, unfavorable flexion and extension, edema, foot odor, lung impotence, lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, gonorrhea, and leucorrhoea.

① "Ben Jing"; "the main tendon acute contracture, can not be flexed and stretched, rheumatism paralysis, down the gas."

② "Bibliography": "In addition to the sinews and bones of the evil not benevolent, li intestines and stomach, eliminate edema, people can eat."

③ "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": "Lord lung impotence and lung gas, spitting pus and blood, coughing and spitting on the gas. Decoction of the broken five streams poisonous swelling."

④ "Food Therapy Materia Medica": "To remove dry and wet feet."

⑤ "Gleanings of the Materia Medica": "Warming Qi, the main thirst." "Kill roundworms."

⑥ "Introduction to Medicine": "The main upper qi, heart and chest armor error."

⑦ "Compendium": "Strengthening the spleen and stomach, tonifying the lungs and clearing heat, removing wind and winning dampness. Cooking rice food, treatment of cold gas; decoction drink, facilitate urination hot shower."

⑧ "Pharmacology of National Drugs": "Treatment of fluid in the stomach."

⑨ The Illustrated Guide to Chinese Medicinal Plants: "Treating pulmonary edema, wet costochondritis, urinary disorders, chronic gastrointestinal diseases, chronic ulcers."

The edible method of Coix lacryma

1. Coix lacryma rice: Yu Li Ren 60 grams, research rotten, water filtering medicine juice; Coix lacryma 200 grams, with Yu Li Ren juice cooked into rice. Divided into 2 times to eat. Derived from the "Dokhang Fang". This formula can promote water retention and swelling, Yu Li Ren and Job's tears are similar in effect, its flavor is slightly bitter and not very palatable, so only the juice is used. It is used for edema, urinary incontinence, wheezing and chest fullness.

2. melon petals peach kernel soup: 15 grams of Coix lacryma, 30 grams of winter melon seeds, peach kernel 10 grams, 6 grams of mudanpi. Add water and decoction. Derived from Qianjin Yaofang. Coix Seed and Donggua Zi can clear away heat and dampness, and drain pus; Peach Kernel and Mudan Pi can activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis. It is used for intestinal carbuncle constriction and abdominal pain, palpable mass in the right lower abdomen, constipation, short and red urine. Mudanpi taste bitter and turbid, can be used in addition to honeysuckle, dandelion and other heat detoxifying drugs.

3. Rhododendron and half lotus soup: Coix lacryma, rhododendron, half lotus 30 grams each. Add water and decoct the soup, divided into 2 times. This formula has a certain inhibitory effect on tumor, in which the effect is more obvious with half lotus. It can be used for stomach cancer, cervical cancer and so on.

Usage and dosage of Job's tears

Internal: decoction, 10-30g; or into pills, bulk, soaked in wine, boiled congee, as a soup.

Contraindications to the consumption of Job's tears

Spleen about difficult stools and expectant mothers should be cautious.

① "The Classic of Materia Medica": "Where the disease is dry stools, small water is short, due to cold turning tendons, the spleen is weak without dampness, avoid it. Pregnancy is prohibited."

② "Materia Medica Tongxuan": "The one who has a deficiency and sinking in the lower abdomen is not suitable for it."

① treatment of the sick all over the pain, fever, day Asr drama, the name of wind-dampness, this disease is injured in the sweat when the wind, or long injury to take the cold caused by: ephedra (remove the section) half a couple of (soup bubble), licorice one or two (sizzling), half a couple of Job's tears, almonds ten (peeled, pointed, fried). On the file asa bean big, each serving four money, water one and a half, boiled eight minutes, remove the dregs of the warm service, there is a slight sweat to avoid the wind. ("The Golden Chamber" ephedra almond barley licorice soup)

② treatment of rheumatism and paralysis, limb impotence, lumbar spine pain: Job's tears one catty, real Sang Sheng, Angelica sinensis body, Kawasaki Sequinseng, Cangshui (rice slop soaked in fried) each four two. Divided into sixteen doses, water decoction. ("Guang Ji Fang")

③ treatment of long-term wind and dampness paralysis, tonifying the positive qi, stomach and intestines, edema, in addition to the evil in the chest, the treatment of contracture of the tendons and veins: Coix Seed for the end of the porridge with round-grained polished rice, day to day food. ("Compendium" Coix seed porridge)

④ to wind and dampness, strong bones and muscles, strengthen the spleen and stomach: Coix seed powder, with the brewing of rice, or bags of boiled wine to drink. ("Compendium" Coix Seed wine)

⑤ Treatment of edema and wheezing: Yu Li Ren two. Research, water filtration juice, cooking coix seed rice, day two food. ("Solo line formula")

⑥ treatment of lung impotence spit pus and blood: Coix seed ten two. Pestle and mortar, with three liters of water, decoct one liter, into the wine a little to take. (Mei Shi set of prescription)

(7) treatment of lung carbuncle cough spit, heart and chest armor wrong: to the pure bitter wine boiled coix seed to make thick, slightly warmed and served. If there is blood in the lungs, it will be spat out and healed. ("Fan Wang Fang")

⑧ treatment of carbuncle hemoptysis: Job's tears three Taiwan. Pounded, two large water, into the wine a little, divided into two services. ("Jisheng Fang")

⑨ treatment of intestinal carbuncle, its body armor wrong, abdominal skin anxious, press the moistened like a swelling, abdominal no accumulation, no heat, pulse number, this is the intestinal carbuncle pus: Job's tears, appendicia two points, five points of the defeat sauce. The above three flavors, pestle and mortar for the end, take the square inch dagger, with two liters of water, decoction reduced by half, take, when the urine. ("The Golden Chamber" Coix lacryma epiphyllum septicum scattered)

⑩ treatment of intestinal carbuncle: Coix lacryma one liter, peony skin, peach kernel three two, two liters of melon petals people. The above four flavors, with six liters of water, boiled to take two liters, divided again. ("Thousand Golden Formula")

(11) treatment of thirst and drinking water: Coix Seed boiled porridge to drink, and porridge to eat. ("Compendium")

(12) treatment of sandstone heat shower, pain intolerable: jade broomcorn (seeds, leaves, roots are available), hot drink with water, cold drink in the summer months, in order to pass for degrees. ("Yang's experience formula")

After reading the above introduction, we are not already for the other effects of Coix lacryma has a new understanding of it, it is recommended that we usually live according to their own actual situation in the appropriate amount of food, such as soup, congee, and stews can be added in the appropriate amount of Coix lacryma. However, here we need to remind you, because Job's tears are not suitable for people without moisture to eat, so like pregnant women and spleen deficiency without wet crowd is not recommended to eat.