Coix seed, alias: Coix, Coix rice, Job's tears, ditch rice. This product is the dried mature seed kernel of the plant Coix lacryma, family gramineae. Autumn when the fruit is ripe harvesting and cutting the plant, sun drying, beating down the fruit, and then sun drying, remove the shell, yellow-brown seed coat and impurities, collect the seed kernel. The seed kernel with shell and testa removed is used for medicine. Mainly produced in Hunan, Hebei, Jiangsu, Fujian and other provinces. Sweet and light in flavor, slightly cold in nature. It has the functions of strengthening the spleen, inducing dampness, clearing heat and draining pus. It is used for spleen deficiency, diarrhea, edema, leucorrhea, dampness, joint pain, intestinal carbuncle, lung impotence and other diseases. It is also used for stomach cancer, cervical cancer, chorionic epithelial cancer and other cancers as well as multiple warts. Job's tears seed kernel is one of the traditional food resources in China, can be made into porridge, rice, all kinds of pasta for people to eat. Especially for the old, weak and sick is more suitable.

Rice kernel, is the seed kernel of Coix lacryma, also known as Coix seed kernel, grass family, Coix seed kernel. Is China's specialty, is a medicinal food and plant seeds, the nature of the slippery, pharmacological experiments have proved that the rice kernel of the uterine muscle has an excitatory effect, prompting the uterus to contract and thus have the possibility of inducing miscarriage; rice kernel for the family of plants Coix lacryma seed kernel, also known as Coix seed kernel. Because of its seed kernels and roots can be used in medicine, and the plant is similar to corn, some producing areas also known as coix lacryma for "medicine corn"