The history of using coix seeds to dispel dampness has been more than 2,000 years, and among the grain crops excavated from the tomb of the Nanyue King in present-day Guangzhou, there is a figure of coix seeds. According to historical records, when the Eastern Han Dynasty soldiers fought in the humid and steaming mountains and forests in the south, they took coix seed soup to prevent "miasma". What is the magic of the efficacy of coix kernel?
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Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coix is cool, sweet and light, into the spleen, stomach, lung meridians, is conducive to water leakage, spleen and diarrhea, paralysis and pain relief, heat and pus removal.
■ Water seepage
"New Edition of Materia Medica": "Coix kernel is the best at water, not to lose the true yin qi, where the wet is in the lower body, the most suitable to use" It can be seen that the most prominent effect of coix kernel is to benefit the water to seep wet.
When the moisture is heavy, there are manifestations of heavy moisture such as sticky mouth, loss of appetite, loose stools, easy to be puffy and fat, edematous, and unable to lift the spirit all day. You can use coix seeds, white lentils and other wet ingredients to cook porridge and boil soup together, and you can also match the ginseng, five-fingered peach, astragalus and other spleen and vitality products to enhance the power of moisture removal.
■ Healthy spleen and anti-diarrhea
When moisture invades the lower coke of the human body, its changes are mostly related to the operation of water, and the most obvious symptom is stool erosion. If the stool is soft, sticky and unformed like an overridden banana, there is always a feeling of impurity, and it is not easy to be washed away when stuck to the toilet, which means that there is moisture in the body.
At this time, the use of coix kernel has a good effect of dispelling dampness and relieving diarrhea, as recorded in the "New Compilation of Materia Medica": "Coix kernel is the best at water, not to lose the true yin qi, where the wet is in the lower body, it is most suitable to use." And the dampness-removing formula "Ginseng Bai Shu San" has the flavor of coix kernel.
■ Relieves paralysis and relieves pain
The so-called "paralysis removal" refers to the treatment of some stubborn limb pain, numbness, flexion and extension unfavorable, causing many causes of paralysis, such as wind, cold, humidity, heat and other evil gas invasion can lead to paralysis. Coix kernel is aimed at the treatment of "paralysis", which refers to the waist, leg pain, joint pain and so on formed due to the retention of wet evil in the body for a long time.
"Coix Seed Soup" is a classic formula for the treatment of paralysis, including coix seed, ginger, hot licorice, guizhi, ephedra, duhuo, cangshu, windproof, Qianghuo, angelica, Sichuan root, etc., with the effect of relieving pain, warming and yang, dehumidifying and dispersing cold. Modern pharmacological studies have also found that ingredients such as coix kernel oil have a relieving effect on inflammatory reactions and can be anti-inflammatory and analgesic.
■ Other effects
Modern research has found that the protein, fat and vitamin B1 content in coix kernels is much higher than that of rice, containing eight kinds of amino acids and a variety of nutrients necessary for the human body, which has high nutritional value, can improve the body's immunity, and has a good effect on anti-cancer, beauty, anti-inflammatory, blood pressure lowering, blood sugar lowering and other aspects.
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There are many methods of preparing coix kernels, such as raw use, salt soup boiling, stir-frying, glutinous rice stir-frying, bran stir-frying, and soil stir-frying. Now it is mostly raw, stir-fried and bran stir-fried.
Raw users are cold and cool, longer than water seepage, heat removal, paralysis and pain relief, often used for unfavorable urination, edema, pulmonary carbuncle, rheumatic paralysis pain, etc.;
Stir-frying and bran stir-fry are relatively peaceful, the two functions are similar, longer than the spleen and anti-diarrhea, often used for spleen deficiency diarrhea, abdominal distention and pain.
‖ Dietary remedies are recommended
Pork bone broth with coix seeds and winter melon
Ingredients: soil poria, coix kernels, winter melon with skin, pork spine
Method: Soak the soil poria and coix seeds in water for 30 minutes in advance, cut into pieces with the skin of the winter melon, blanch the pork backbone, add water to the pot and bring it to a boil on high heat, then turn to low heat and cook until about 30-60 minutes, add salt to taste, drink soup and eat meat.
Benefits: Detoxify, cool and damp.
Suitable for people: summer humid heat contains crowds. Such as the symptoms are prone to acne, glossy scale, yellow skin, bitter mouth, dry mouth, heavy breath, rotten stool, heavy limb pain, red tongue, yellow and greasy moss and other symptoms.
However, we must pay attention to the fact that although coix seed is good to remove dampness, however, coix kernel is suitable for people with heavy moisture, if the spleen is not wet, spleen and yin are insufficient, kidney water is insufficient, qi deficiency is sagging, and stool dry knots, it is necessary to use it with caution; coix kernel has the suspicion of slippery fetus, so pregnant women should use it with caution.
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