The properties are sweet, light and slightly cold. Into the spleen, stomach, lung meridian.

Effects and Indications

1. It is used to promote water retention and seepage of dampness, edema and swelling, swelling of the feet, and urinary incontinence, and is often accompanied by Poria cocos, poria, etc. It is also used to strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, and to improve the quality of life.

2.Strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea is used for spleen deficiency and dampness, loose food or diarrhea, often with ginseng, atractylodes macrocephala, yam, etc., such as ginseng and atractylodes macrocephala.

3. dispel wind paralysis for wind-dampness heat paralysis, more and prevention of hexagrams, gardenia, talcum, etc., formula, such as XuanPaoTang; for wind-dampness all over the pain, day by day, often with almonds, ephedra, glycyrrhiza, formula, that is, the sesame apricot coix glycyrrhiza soup.

4. Clearing heat and draining pus for lung carbuncle, can be used with rehmannia root, peach kernel, winter melon kernel, formula such as Qianjin Reed Stem Soup; for intestinal carbuncle, can be used with epimedium, septum, formula such as coix lacryma epimedium septum powder.

In addition, it can also be used to treat the beginning of dampness and warmth, the evil in the qi, epigastric plagued with greasy moss and so on, often with almonds, cardamom kernel, thick park, etc., such as the three kernel soup.

The dosage is 10~30 grams, decocted in water, or into pills and bulk, and can also be eaten with polished round-grained rice porridge. It is suitable to be fried to strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, and raw to clear heat and relieve dampness.

Contraindications are not recommended for people with insufficient fluid and pregnant women.

According to the spleen for the yin earth, like dry and evil dampness, Job's tears are sweet and light, not only can seep the spleen's evil, but also can make up for the spleen's favorite, cold and not hurt the stomach, spleen and not greasy, seepage of dampness and not sharp, and the nature of the medicine is gentle, is a clear, light seepage of the product. Because of its function of tonifying the spleen, strengthening the spleen will make the lung qi sufficient, so it can also tonify the lung. Therefore, it is often used in the treatment of edema in the feet of dampness-heat internalization, dampness paralysis of dampness-stagnant meridians, dampness-heat congestion of lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, and diarrhea.

The identification of drugs Coix seed, Poria can strengthen the spleen, dampness, spleen deficiency and dampness with. However, Job's tears can clear away heat and eliminate carbuncles, and get rid of the dampness of the muscles and bones; Poria is flat, and has a good tonic heart and spleen, tranquilize the mind and tranquilize the spirit.