Coix seed, also known as Coix seed, Coix seed, rice seed, pearl rice, whole grain rice, Hui Hui rice, Bodhi pearl, medicinal corn, water corn, glutinous rice, ancient days, Coix seed, grass pearl essence, Lycium barbarum, etc.

Coix seed has high nutritional value, including protein 16.2%, fat 4.65%, carbohydrate 79. 1%, vitamin 330 mg%, amino acids, coix seed, coix seed fat, triterpenes and starch.

Chinese medicine believes that coix seed is cold and enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians. It has the functions of invigorating spleen, benefiting lung, clearing away heat and infiltrating temperature, and is a health food that the masses like to eat. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that Coicis Semen "tonifies the spleen and stomach, tonifies the lung and clears away heat, dispels wind and overcomes dampness, keeps beauty, keeps capacity and prolongs life". Modern science has confirmed that Coix lachryma-jobi seed can reduce blood particles, and the fat contained in Coix lachryma-jobi seed can prevent the growth and damage of cancer cells. Coix seed has inhibitory effect on striated muscle.