In daily life, many people like to eat barley to remove dampness. Coix, also known as coix kernel, rice kernel, barley, medicinal corn, etc., is the seed kernel of the gramineous plant Coix. It has high nutritional value. In addition to being used as food, it can also be used for medicine and wine making, and even used to make tea. . Someone asked, can drinking barley tea often improve people's mental outlook? Drinking more barley tea does have the effect of assisting beauty, and it also has many other benefits. Here is a detailed analysis.

What are the benefits of drinking barley tea regularly?

Chinese medicine believes that coix seed is sweet, light and cool in nature. It returns to the spleen, stomach and lung meridian. It has the effects of diuresis and dampness, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, removing paralysis, draining pus, detoxifying and dispersing stagnation. It can be used for Diarrhea, dampness, spasm of muscles and veins, difficulty in flexion and extension, appendicitis, nephritis, edema, athlete's foot, pulmonary fistula, pulmonary malnutrition, intestinal carbuncle, turbid stranguria, excessive leucorrhea and other diseases. Modern research shows that barley contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B, vitamin C, coix oil, and coix kernel ester. Generally speaking, regular drinking of barley tea has the following main benefits for the human body:

(1) Beauty: Barley is also a beauty food, which has the effects of moisturizing the skin, whitening, and removing freckles. Regular consumption or powdered for external application can make the skin smooth, moist and white, and has certain auxiliary effects on facial warts, chloasma, acne, chapped skin and other skin diseases.

(2) Adjuvant treatment of rheumatic arthralgia: Barley has the effect of relaxing the tendons and relieving arthralgia, and has a good effect on patients with rheumatic arthralgia.

(3) Removing dampness: Barley has a cooling medicinal property and can clear away heat and promote dampness. It is a good food therapy for summer heat dampness.

(4) Adjuvant treatment of high blood pressure and hyperglycemia: Barley can expand blood vessels and lower blood sugar, especially for high blood pressure and hyperglycemia. It has a certain auxiliary treatment effect.

How to make barley tea?

First, sort out the impurities in the barley; wash it with clean water and control the water; then put the barley into a pan, stir-fry over a slow fire until it is slightly yellow, take it out when it swells, and put it aside. Cool; then put the roasted barley into the teapot; finally pour in boiling water, soak for five to ten minutes and start drinking (if you like a rich rice aroma, you can extend the soaking time appropriately).

Finally, drinking barley tea has many benefits, but it is worth noting that people with spleen deficiency and diarrhea can fry the barley before eating it, which will have better effects. Since barley is good at removing dampness, it should be used with caution by people who have depleted body fluids after a fever, or who usually have yin deficiency or yin deficiency and fire exuberance. Barley has obvious slippery properties and can promote uterine contraction. Pregnant women are prone to miscarriage and other accidents after eating barley, so they should not eat it. In addition, patients with spermatorrhea and enuresis should not eat barley.

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