Job’s tear grains and ginger water have the effects of inducing diuresis and seepage of dampness (promoting the flow of water to dispel dampness), relieving the surface and dispersing cold (removing the cold from the surface of the muscle), and warming the stomach and stopping vomiting (treating vomiting caused by gastric cold by warming the spleen and stomach).
Job’s tear grains are sweet, light and cool in nature. It belongs to the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. It can diuretic and seepage dampness, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, remove paralysis, expel pus, detoxify and disperse knots. It is used for edema, foot fungus, dysuria (irregular urination), diarrhea in spleen deficiency, dampness paralysis, lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle (carbuncle occurring in the intestines and bowels, manifested by fever, pain in the right abdomen, and palpable lump), warts (sarcoma growing on the skin), and cancerous tumors.
Ginger is pungent in flavor and slightly warm in nature. It belongs to lung, spleen and stomach meridians. It can relieve cold, warm and stop vomiting, dissolve phlegm and stop cough, and detoxify fish and crab. It is used for wind-cold cold, stomach cold vomiting, cold phlegm cough, fish and crab poisoning.
Coix Seed Ginger Water has a variety of effects, such as diuresis and seepage of dampness, detoxification and dispersal of cold, warming the middle, strengthening the spleen, etc., for the above mentioned diseases also have a certain improvement, but it is recommended to use the drug under the guidance of a doctor, do not take it on their own.