Author: Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association Guangzhou Twelfth People's Hospital Luo Qiang
Coix seed, also known as barley, is one of the commonly used medicinal herbs for medicinal and food uses. This product is a dried mature seed kernel of the grass plant coix. When the autumn fruit is ripe, the plant is harvested, dried, the fruit is laid, and then dried to remove the shell, yellow-brown seed coat and impurities, and collect the seed kernels. Chinese medicine believes that its taste is sweet, light, cool, and belongs to the spleen, stomach, and lungs. It is beneficial to water leakage, healthy spleen and anti-diarrhea, remove paralysis, drain pus, detoxify and loosen the knot. It is used for edema, beriberi, unfavorable urination, spleen deficiency and diarrhea, wet paralysis, pulmonary carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, fold warts, cancer.
Coix kernel mainly contains protein, coix polysaccharides a, b, c and other polysaccharides, coix kernel esters, triglycerides, coix lactones, fatty acids, lactams, sterols, triterpenoids, leucine, arginine, lysine, tyrosine and other essential amino acids and minerals, vitamin b1 and so on. Modern studies have revealed that it has anti-tumor, immune enhancement, hypoglycemic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, sedative, calcium-lowering, ovulation induction, and inhibition of rhabdomy muscle.
Due to the different preparation methods, coix seeds are divided into raw coix kernels, stir-fried coix kernels and bran stir-fried coix kernels, with different effects.
Raw coix kernel, cool sex, partial to water seepage, paralysis and pain relief, when there is a urine disadvantage, athlete's foot, rheumatism paralysis pain can choose to use.
Stir-fried coix kernel refers to the use of medium heat to heat the coix kernel, fried until the surface is slightly yellow, the sex is flat, and the spleen is moist. For those who over-eat fat and thick, less exercise, it is easy to cause spleen deficiency and wet sleepiness, so there are symptoms such as dizziness, soft limbs, thick tongue and other symptoms, at this time you can choose to fry coix kernels to strengthen the spleen and dampness.
Bran stir-fried coix kernel refers to the coix kernel and wheat bran together to make a slight yellow, wheat bran can make the coix kernel medicine become peaceful, and enhance the effect of strengthening the spleen. After bran stir-frying, the spleen effect of coix kernels is better than that of ordinary stir-fried coix kernels. Therefore, if you have symptoms of spleen deficiency, frequent diarrhea, eating less but bloating your stomach, you can use bran fried coix kernels, the effect will be better.
Dietary remedies for coix seeds:
1. Barley rice: Add a little coix kernel (1/10 of the rice) to the rice to increase the taste of the rice when chewed.
2. Barley porridge: The coix kernel is eaten with lilies, lotus seeds, etc., which can achieve the effect of clearing the fire, calming the spirit, replenishing the deficiency and benefiting the stomach. For long-term illness deficiency, postpartum recovery period, the elderly, young children, etc. with coix kernels to cook porridge, quite beneficial.
3. Coix seed soup: The soup is cooked with coix kernel and fresh winter melon, which can not only accompany the meal, but also clear the damp heat, and the effect is excellent.
Although coix seeds are good, they should be taken with caution for those with wet spleen, dry stools and pregnant women.
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Reviewer: Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association Guangzhou Twelfth People's Hospital Zhang Ziping
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