As the saying goes, "A thousand colds are easy to remove, and a wet is difficult to go." ”
In the land of Lingnan, damp and hot, wetness is something that Lingnan people know! However, "wet and sticky, such as oil into the surface", it is not so easy to get rid of dampness.
Barley is a common ingredient on the table to remove dampness, can be boiled soup, can be boiled porridge, can be made into a pastry, a variety of tricks, but not away from its wonderful use of moisture removal. The function of barley is not as simple as removing dampness.
Barley, also known as coix kernel, coix kernel, coix kernel, etc., grass plants, is one of the earliest crops planted in China, belongs to the grain, has a long history of cultivation.
It likes to grow in humid areas, is a wet plant, central and eastern China, from south to north, many places can be cultivated, wild products are mostly scattered in the field, wasteland, waterside and so on.
The goods in circulation in the market are all artificially planted, and now the large-scale planting is mainly concentrated in Fujian and Guizhou provinces.
In Southeast Asia there is also a variety, also called coix kernel, the grain head is larger than the domestic one, the current circulation in the domestic market, but the quality is not as good as the domestic, to the pharmaceutical standard test, the import is mostly unqualified, so the import price is about 20-30% cheaper than the domestic, of course, if the edible standard can be.
Coix kernels are eaten as grains and have a long history. Later, in the practice of life, the medicinal value of coix kernel was gradually discovered.
As a medicinal use, the Shennong Materia Medica about 2,000 years ago has been recorded: "Coix, sweet and slightly cold taste, life and life." Cure tendons and cramps can not be flexed and extended, rheumatism, lower breath. Long-term service is light and healthy. ”
In the dietary therapy, there are many barley-based formulas, such as barley lily porridge, which not only tastes fragrant, sweet and sticky, but also improves women's facial freckles and whitens skin, which is popular with women.
In Guangdong, the weather is mainly hot and humid, and when it is wet, locals like to cook porridge with adzuki beans and red beans to make water and get wet.
Coix kernel, sweet, light, slightly cold, in general, has four major effects, spleen, dampness, relaxation, pus drainage.
"New Edition of Materia Medica" Yun: "Coix kernel is the most good at water, not to lose the true yin qi, where the wet is in the lower body, it is most suitable to use, depending on the severity of the disease, the number of quasi-medicinal drugs, then the yin and yang are not hurt, and the wet disease is easy to go." Therefore, in the case of water wetness, use the one and two of coix as the king, and the smell of the spleen to remove the wetness, there is no one who does not work quickly. "It can be seen that barley has a strong dampness.
After the barley is fried, the strength of the spleen is strengthened, and the medicinal properties itself will change from cold to warm, and those with spleen deficiency and cold and wet are more suitable, often used in conjunction with baishu, ginseng, and poria, such as ginseng baishu scattering.
Middle-aged and elderly people infected with rheumatism, joints are often paralyzed, and flexion and extension are unfavorable, at this time barley can be reused, while matching papaya, continuous break and other drugs to relieve muscles and dispel dampness.
In some parts of the body, there are suppurative infections, especially when there is moisture, coix seeds have a very good heat-clearing and pus-clearing effect.
In the "Golden Essentials", a famous party is called coix seed sauce scattering, and the composition of the square is to reuse coix kernels, plus appendages and defeat sauce grass. The treatment of intestinal carbuncle abdominal pain, appendicitis and other effects are excellent, coix kernel plays an important role.
As a food, Japanese scholars believe that barley is the most nourishing and easily digestible grain among grasses.
It contains more protein and fat than white rice, but carbohydrates are slightly inferior. The world knows white rice, and the nourishing power of barley rice is even greater than that of white rice.
As a drug, modern pharmacological research has proved that the extract of barley has an anti-cancer effect, and its anti-cancer active ingredients include coix kernel, coix kernel endolipid, linoleic acid, which can effectively inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells and can be used for adjuvant treatment of stomach cancer and cervical cancer.
Coix seed has thus become a popular drug for the prevention and treatment of tumors at home and abroad.
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Source: Ouyang Weiquan Jingfang Studio
Author: Kong Jun (senior Chinese medicine practitioner, engaged in the traditional Chinese medicine industry for more than 20 years, Ouyang Weiquan's director Shi Cheng's disciple)
Instructor: Ouyang Weiquan
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Ouyang Weiquan
Doctor of Medicine/Deputy Chief Physician
Brief introduction
The first batch of young famous Chinese medicine practitioners in Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is currently the executive director of the Young Chinese Medicine Training Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine, the member of the Jingfang Professional Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine, the member of the Dermatology Branch of the Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the member of the Academic Thought Research Branch of famous doctors of the Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the member of the Dermatological and Venereology Branch of the China Association for the Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the director of the Guangdong Acupuncture Society, the standing committee member and secretary of the Dermatology Professional Committee of the Guangdong Acupuncture Society, the standing committee member of the Guangdong Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine Foreign Treatment Professional Committee, and the fifth batch of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine." He is the heir of the national old Chinese medicine expert academic experience inheritance work, and the visiting professor of the "Li Ke Chinese Medicine Academic School Inheritance Base" of Southern Medical University.
He inherited famous old Chinese medicine practitioners such as "Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine" Li Zhenhua, Xuan Guowei, and Li Ke of the "Ancient Chinese Medicine School". Academically, it advocates returning to the tradition of traditional Chinese medicine, using Chinese medicine thinking to guide the clinic, and adhering to the path of pure Chinese medicine. He is committed to the clinical application research of the classic "Typhoid Fever" of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Engaged in the clinical work of traditional Chinese medicine for more than 20 years, he has academically advocated returning to the tradition of traditional Chinese medicine, following the laws of traditional Chinese medicine to develop traditional Chinese medicine, using traditional Chinese medicine thinking to guide the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine, and adhering to the path of pure traditional Chinese medicine. He is committed to the clinical application research of the classic "Typhoid Fever" of Traditional Chinese Medicine, emphasizing the six classics as the outline, the fang evidence as the core, the recognition of all diseases, and the use of the jingfang. He is good at using Jingfang to treat difficult and miscellaneous diseases in various disciplines, and is the first person in the domestic systematic research on the six classics of "Typhoid Fever Theory" and the treatment of skin diseases by Jingfang, and has been invited to give special lectures on Jingfang at academic conferences at home and abroad for many times, especially systematically teaching the academic experience of "Typhoid Fever Theory" in the identification and treatment of skin diseases, which has influenced a large number of TCM dermatologists. The publication of his personal academic monograph "New Exploration of the Six Classics of Dialectics - The Method of Distinguishing and Treating Skin Diseases by The Fang" has had a great influence.
Good at diseases
Skin diseases: herpes zoster neuralgia, acne, urticaria, vasculitis, lupus erythematosus, atopic dermatitis, eczema, psoriasis, vitiligo, flat warts, hormone-dependent dermatitis, alopecia, pruritus nodular, erysipelas, melasma, pruritus of the skin, allergic purpura, genital herpes, pityriasis of hair, etc.;
Common medical diseases: fever, cough, insomnia, chronic rhinitis, chronic gastritis, diarrhea, palpitations, headache, dizziness, menopausal syndrome, paralysis, mouth ulcers, etc.
Women and children and others: pediatric pneumonia, asthma, adenoidal hypertrophy, anorexia, dyspepsia, night crying, enuresis, etc.; dysmenorrhea, menstrual irregularities, infertility, etc.
Visiting hours
Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday/Afternoon Guangzhou Dongshan Branch/Guangzhou Junjing Branch