1. Can coix seed be eaten if it is infested?
1. Can coix seed be eaten if it is infested?
It is edible if it is infested. Those bugs are hidden in coix seed, and it is difficult to get them out. Xiaobian tried to bask in the sun, but all the bugs died in it. Anyway, just pick out the bad ones before cooking. If you don't clean it, it will taste bad. Therefore, if the glutinous rice in Xiaobian's house is born with worms, I will decisively lose it, because Xiaobian just buys a few and a half kilograms at a time, so I don't feel bad if I lose it. I won't buy more at home and eat as much as I want.
Coix seed has high nutritional value and is known as "the king of Gramineae 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.
2. What are the functions of Coix seed?
2.1. Coix seed is a commonly used medicine for promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, relaxing tendons and removing arthralgia, and clearing heat and expelling pus.
2.2. Coix seed is used for hair: it has the functions of nourishing hair, preventing hair loss and making hair smooth and soft.
2.3. Coix seed is used for skin: it can make skin smooth, reduce wrinkles and eliminate pigment spots. It has obvious curative effect on facial acne and rough skin. In addition, it also has the ability to absorb ultraviolet rays, and its extract can also achieve sunscreen and ultraviolet protection effects when added to cosmetics.
2.4. In addition, Coix seed is a kind of food. Boiling it soft or frying it is more conducive to the absorption of the stomach. People who often feel tired and have no strength can eat more. Coix seed is rich in protein-decomposing enzymes, which can soften the cutin of the skin. It is also effective for those with warty, rough and unsmooth skin after long-term use.
3. A complete list of the practices of coix seed
3.1. Red bean coix seed porridge
Materials: red bean, coix seed, water and rock sugar.
practice: red bean and barley porridge, prepare the same amount of red beans and barley. After washing, it takes about two or three hours for red beans and one hour for barley. Then you have to cook the red beans first, because it takes a long time. After boiling, add some cold water, and then add cold water after boiling, so that the red beans are easy to bloom, easy to ripen, and it is said to be more fragrant. After the red beans are boiled and blossomed, add the coix seed. After the fire is boiled, turn to low heat and cook until it is thick. Just add rock sugar to taste.
3.2. Yam and Coix seed porridge
Materials: Yam (half root), Coix seed (one handful), fresh lily, a little lotus seed (with core), 5 red dates, a little medlar, and adzuki bean (I put it myself, which is not in the prescription of Chinese medicine).
practice: peel the yam, wash it and cut it into small mouths. Wash all other materials, and don't remove the lotus plumule in the middle of the lotus seeds. Blanch the fresh lily with boiling water and set it aside. Put all the materials except fresh lily into the pot, add 8 bowls of water, and after the fire boils, turn to low heat and cook for two hours. Just add the blanched lily when you are almost out of the pot.
3.3. Lemon Coix seed water
Materials: 1g of raw and cooked Coix seed, 2ml of cold water, proper amount of sugar (or honey), 1 lemon juice and several slices of lemon.
practice: the portions of raw and cooked coix seed are half, and the raw and cooked coix seed are rinsed clean, and then boiled with cold water, then simmered for 1 hour with low heat, and then mixed with sugar. After the step 3 is slightly cooled, the appropriate amount of lemon juice and lemon slices are added to mix well.
2. Taboos of Coix seed
1. Coix seed contains high sugar viscosity, so eating too much may hinder digestion. People with weak stomach and intestines can use coix seed to cook and eat together with other ingredients, but don't soak it in water alone.
2. because coix seed can make the body cold and weak, it is not suitable for long-term use.
3. Pregnant women and women who are menstruating can't eat coix seed.
3. people with constipation should not eat coix seed.
3. Efficacy of Coix seed
1. Whitening skin
Because Coix seed is rich in protein, it can keep the skin shiny and delicate when eaten regularly, and eliminate acne, freckles, age spots, pregnancy spots and butterfly spots. If you drink it for a long time, you can also achieve the effect of moisturizing the skin.
How to eat: Boil fresh milk, add appropriate amount of Coicis Semen powder, stir well, or eat 3-5g cooked Coicis Semen powder each time, and take it with warm water twice in the morning and evening.
lily job's tears porridge: wash 5 grams of job's tears and 15 grams of lily, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook until the job's tears are hot and rotten, add honey, mix well and serve.
characteristics: sweet, hot and waxy, slightly fragrant.
efficacy: this porridge is often eaten, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, moisturize the skin and remove spots. it can be used to treat women's facial freckles, acne, eczema and other diseases, and is beneficial to the beauty of young girls.
2. Promote metabolism
Coix seed can promote the metabolism of blood and water in the body, and has the functions of diuresis, edema elimination and defecation, so it can help to lose weight.
how to eat: 3g of LYSIMACHIA christinae is put in a casserole and boiled in water for half an hour, and the residue is filtered to leave juice, then 1g of Italian rice is added to make porridge, and appropriate amount of sugar is added.
efficacy: diuretic, lithagogue and stranguria.
Function: Indications: kidney calculi, urinary calculi.
3. preventing hair loss
it can nourish hair, prevent hair loss and make hair smooth and soft.
how to eat: soak 5 grams of cooked coix seed powder in 5 ml of warm water to make a tea drink.
4. Inhibition of skeletal muscle contraction
Coix seed can inhibit skeletal muscle contraction, reduce muscle contracture and shorten its fatigue curve; Can inhibit the contraction of striated muscle.
5. Anti-tumor
It is especially suitable for digestive tract tumor with spleen deficiency and dampness and lung cancer with phlegm heat and dampness.
6. Prevention and resistance to cancer
Modern science has confirmed that the coix lachryma-jobi fat contained in coix lachryma-jobi can prevent the growth and injury of cancer cells.
edible method: coix lacryma-jobi water chestnut and scutellaria barbata soup: coix lacryma-jobi seed, water chestnut and scutellaria barbata each 3g. Decoct the soup with water and take it twice.
this prescription has certain inhibitory effect on tumor, among which Scutellaria barbata is the most obvious one. Can be used for gastric cancer, cervical cancer, etc.
7. Enhance immunity
Enhance immunity and anti-inflammatory effects, and improve the immune ability of the body. Coix seed oil can promote cellular immunity and humoral immunity.
8. Sedative, analgesic and antipyretic
It has sedative, analgesic and antipyretic effects. It has a good effect on patients with rheumatic arthralgia.
9. Effect on cardiovascular system
Inhibit respiratory center and dilate peripheral blood vessels, especially pulmonary blood vessels.