Coix Seed (English name of Latin Semen Coicis) is also known as coixseed, coix rice, coix seed, native corn, coix seed, Zizhen, coix pearl, grass pearl, Huihui rice, rice kernel and six millet. It is a common Chinese medicine, a common and frequently eaten food, sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature, which is beneficial to the effects of reducing swelling, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, relaxing muscles and tendons, clearing heat and expelling pus, etc., and is a commonly used diuretic and dampness-permeating drug. Coix seed is also a kind of beauty food, which can keep the skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne, spotted finch, senile plaque, pregnancy spot and butterfly spot, and has good curative effect on dandruff, acne, chapped skin and so on.
the main function of barley and red bean porridge is to remove dampness, which can get rid of moisture in the body, so it is very suitable for people with heavy moisture in summer. It can be eaten as a meal, which is a good product for eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen. Coix seed, called "Coix seed" in traditional Chinese medicine, is listed as the top grade in Shennong Materia Medica Classic. It can cure dampness, benefit the stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, and make people fit and benefit the qi after long-term administration. Red beans, called "adzuki beans" in traditional Chinese medicine, also have obvious effects of promoting diuresis, reducing swelling and strengthening the spleen and stomach. Because they are red, they can nourish the heart. Modern people have great mental stress, heart-qi deficiency, improper diet, less exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. It is necessary to eliminate dampness, nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen and stomach, and it is none other than barley and red beans. Boiling it into porridge is intended to make its effective components fully absorbed by the human body, and at the same time it does not cause any burden to the spleen and stomach. It is also interesting about the "detumescence" effect of coix seed and red bean. We must not think that swelling is edema. Look at today's people, at least five or six out of ten people are fat, which is also swollen and called bloated. In the view of Chinese medicine, obesity or edema means that the body is wet. Water can't flow with qi and blood, and it stays between human cells, which makes the human body expand rapidly. So is edema, so is obesity, but the degree is deep and shallow. Drugs or foods with strong dampness-removing properties can get rid of these water liquids that remain in the human body, which can also reduce swelling. Therefore, the treatment of edema must use red beans, and practice has proved that barley red bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, which can not only lose weight, but also does not hurt the body, especially for middle-aged and obese people. Dampness is the root of all kinds of chronic and intractable diseases in modern times, and Coix seed and red bean soup is the best medicine to treat dampness. After I usually give patients a prescription, I always tell them some precautions in their diet and daily life, among which the most talked about is to go back and cook barley and red bean soup as tea. For patients who don't have this condition, I will let him cook porridge with barley and red beans as the staple food for dinner. One advantage of the glutinous rice red bean porridge is that it won't be sticky and thick, and the red beans and glutinous rice are always rotten at the bottom, and the reddish soup is on the top, and most of the effective ingredients of glutinous rice and red beans are in the soup. When cooking porridge, put more water, and these soups will be enough for us to drink for half a day, just as tea …