Barley, Latin name: Coix chinensis Tod. also known as: Job's tears, Coix seed, six grain seeds, for the seed kernel of the plant Coix lacryma in the family of grasses. Its nature is cool, taste sweet, light, into the spleen, lung, kidney meridian, with water, spleen, remove paralysis, clear heat and drain pus effect. Job's tears are born in the warm and humid ten side of the ground and valley streams and gullies, the altitude of 2000 meters below the more common.

Coix lacryma-jobi (Latin name: Coix lacryma-jobi? L.) for the grass family, annual stout herbs, fibrous roots yellow-white, spongy, about 3 mm in diameter. Flowering and fruiting period June-December.

Mainly produced in Hubei Herb, Hunan, Hebei, Jiangsu, Fujian and other provinces.

Taste sweet, light, sex slightly cold. Among them, the one with the origin of Herb Spring Siliusan Village is the most famous, which has the function of strengthening the spleen, diuresis, clearing heat and draining pus, as well as beautifying and nourishing the face. Coix seed kernel is one of China's traditional food resources, can be made into porridge, rice, all kinds of pasta for people to eat. Especially for the old, weak and sick people more suitable.