Coix seed is a common Chinese herbal medicine and a common food. Coix seed has the effects of invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Today, I will introduce several prescriptions for clearing away heat and reducing swelling, hoping to help you. Let's have a look.
Eat coix seed to clear away heat and reduce swelling 1 1, coix seed porridge.
Methods: Coix lachryma-jobi seed was ground into coarse powder, which was equal to japonica rice. Boil porridge with water, 1~2 times, once a day, for several days.
Efficacy: this recipe uses coix seed to cook porridge to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Used for spleen edema, rheumatic joint pain, limb contracture, etc.
Source: Compendium of Materia Medica
2. Coix lachryma-jobi melon petal peach kernel soup
Methods: Coix seed 15g, winter melon seeds 30g, peach kernel 10g and peony bark 6g. Decoct with water.
Efficacy: Coix seed combined with winter melon seeds, clearing heat, promoting diuresis and discharging pus; The combination of peach kernel and peony bark can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Used for abdominal pain due to intestinal carbuncle, palpable mass in the right lower abdomen, constipation, short and red urine, etc. Peony bark tastes bitter and turbid, and honeysuckle and dandelion can be used to clear away heat and detoxify.
Source: Forward Fang Yao.
3. plums and barley
Methods: 60 grams of Fructus Mume was crushed and filtered with water to obtain medicinal juice. 200 grams of coix seed, cooked with dark plum juice. Eat it twice.
Efficacy: This prescription can induce diuresis and reduce swelling. The effect of dark plum kernel is similar to that of coix seed. It tastes slightly bitter and unpalatable, and is only used for juicing. Used for edema, dysuria, wheezing and chest distress.
Source: The Lonely Man.
4. Glutinous rice mutton soup
Practice: coix seed 150g, mutton 250g, appropriate amount of water for soup, salt and monosodium glutamate for seasoning (a few slices of ginger can also be added). There is food.
Efficacy: it can strengthen the spleen and kidney, replenish qi and tonify deficiency. Weakness, anemia, loss of appetite, etc.
Tips: Coix seed will make the body cold and weak, and it should not be taken for a long time because of deficiency and cold. Pregnant women and menstruating women should avoid eating it.
Efficacy and function of coix seed
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records that coix seed "tonifies the spleen and stomach, tonifies the lung and clears away heat, dispels wind and overcomes dampness, keeps beauty and keeps capacity, and makes people keep fit and prolong life".
Lose weight staple food
Coix seed is the highest fiber in the grain, with low fat and calories, and it is the best staple food to lose weight. It is also rich in protein, oil, vitamins, minerals and sugars. It has the effect of whitening and removing spots, and is especially effective for people with edema in the lower body.
Prevention of cardiovascular diseases
If you eat 50-100g of coix seed every day, you can lower blood cholesterol and triglyceride, and prevent hyperlipidemia, hypertension, stroke, cardiovascular disease and heart disease.
Lowering blood lipid
Because coix seed is rich in water-soluble fiber, it can absorb bile salt (responsible for digesting fat), which makes the absorption rate of fat in intestine worse, thus reducing blood lipid and blood sugar.
Promote metabolism
Coix seed can promote the metabolism of blood and water in the body, has diuretic and detumescence effects, and can also help defecation, so it helps to lose weight.
Whitening skin
Coix seed is rich in protein, which can help to eliminate spots and make skin whiter. If you drink it for a long time, it can also achieve the effect of moisturizing the skin!
Preventing and fighting cancer
Modern science has confirmed that coix seed contains coix seed fat, which can prevent the growth and damage of cancer cells.
Job's tears were hot and swollen. 2 1, red bean coix seed porridge.
Prepare job's tears, longan and red beans. Red beans and job's tears are hard. Soak them for two hours after washing. Peel and shell longan. Put the two kinds of beans in a pressure cooker. After boiling, turn off the heat and simmer for a while. Cook them repeatedly. Then throw longan meat in and cook for a while.
2. Yam barley Euryale ferox soup
Prepare Euryale ferox, Chinese yam, Coix seed and rice. First, wash Gordon Euryale and soak it in clear water for two hours. Wash the rice and soak it in water for 30 minutes. After soaking, put Gordon Euryale into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil with high fire, and then cook with low fire for half an hour. Pour the rice in and continue to cook on low heat for 20 minutes, and put on rubber gloves.
3. Corn ribs, melon and barley soup
Prepare ginger, salt, wax gourd, coix seed and pork chop. Wash coix seed for later use. Wash pork chops, blanch them with boiling water, skim off the floating foam and take them out for later use. After washing the wax gourd, do not peel it and cut it into pieces. Boiling the skin of wax gourd into soup will have the effect of losing weight in beauty beauty. Cut the ginger into pieces, add some boiling water to the casserole, and add the wax gourd pig.