Brown sugar, red dates or ginger will do. Coix seed is cold, eliminating dampness and promoting diuresis. However, people with weak spleen and stomach are not suitable for long-term consumption, so some warm foods like red dates, brown sugar and ginger can be used to alleviate the coldness of coix seed. Especially for women.

Coix seed oil, coix seed ester and other components have anti-tumor effects, such as inhibiting cancer cell metastasis and proliferation, inducing cancer cell apoptosis, inhibiting tumor angiogenesis, and improving radiation sensitivity.

Kanglaite injection is an anti-tumor drug widely used in clinic. Its main component is coix seed oil, which has a good therapeutic or auxiliary effect on liver cancer, gastric cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, renal cancer and so on.

Extended data

Coix lachryma-jobi is a dried and mature seed kernel of Coix lachryma, also known as Coix lachryma, medicinal corn, water corn (northeast), evening rosary (Fujian), Liugu rice (Guangxi) and pearl rice (Guizhou), and some of them are also called wrist beating or bowl beating, which is sweet, slightly cold and non-toxic.

Coix lachryma-jobi seed is a traditional health food for both medicine and food in China. Coix seed has the effects of diuresis, detumescence, invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, clearing heat and expelling pus, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, and enhancing immunity. Coix lachryma-jobi seed is rich in polysaccharides, among which A, B and C sugars in polysaccharides have hypoglycemic effect. Coix lachryma-jobi is planted all over China, and wild Coix lachryma-jobi is distributed in southern provinces.

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Baidu encyclopedia-coix seed