1. Coix seed soup: Wash, add 5 bowls of water, and slowly decoct for about 3 or 4 hours. Filter out the soup first. Add 2 bowls of water to the coix seed residue and decoct for half an hour.
2. Coix seed tea: Twice in the morning and evening, about 5g of cooked Coix seed powder each time, and take it with warm boiled water. Take it after meals. It can moisturize the skin, whiten and moisturize, promote qi and blood circulation, regulate menstruation and relieve pain.
3. Summer-relieving tea: Soak 5 grams of cooked Coix seed powder in 5 ml of warm water to make a tea drink, which can relieve thirst, promote diuresis and reduce swelling, and clear away heat and toxic materials. It can nourish hair, prevent alopecia, and make hair smooth and soft.
4. Lotus Beauty Soup: First, soak lotus seeds, red dates, Gordon Euryale seeds and coix seed in water for 3 minutes, then put longan meat together in a pot, cook it with slow fire until it is cooked thoroughly, and season it with honey. Longan meat greatly invigorates the vitality, lotus seeds tonify the spleen and nourish the stomach, and coix seed rice and Euryale euryales are the products of invigorating the spleen and promoting diuresis. Extended information
Coix seed has high nutritional value and is known as "the king of gramineous plants in the world". Coix seed can be used as food, tastes similar to rice, and is easy to digest and absorb, and can be cooked in porridge or soup. Boiling soup with winter melon in summer and autumn can be eaten with meals, and it can clear away heat and promote diuresis. Because of its rich nutrition, Coix seed is a good medicinal food for the elderly, pregnant women and children who are weak after a long illness and recover from illness, and can be taken frequently.
coix seed ester, a therapeutic component of coix seed, not only has nourishing effect, but also is an anticancer agent, which can inhibit Ehrlich ascites cancer cells and can be used for gastric cancer and cervical cancer. In addition to the above-mentioned effects of coix seed ester, coix seed alcohol contained in the root of coix seed also has the effects of lowering blood pressure, diuresis, relieving fever and expelling ascaris, and is suitable for hypertension, urinary calculi, urinary tract infections, ascariasis, etc.
job's tears porridge: 3-6g of job's tears and 5g of japonica rice, cooked together, seasoned with appropriate amount of sugar. Has that effect of invigorating spleen and stomach, remove dampness and promoting diuresis, resisting cancer and diminish inflammation, and is suitable for asthenia or edema of the elderly, beriberi of lower limbs, inappetence, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, rheumatalgia, psoriasis, eczema, rheumatic lumbago, etc. This can be used as an auxiliary diet for preventing and treating cancer, but it is not suitable for pregnant women.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Coix Seed.