How to Stir-Fry Job’s Tears to Get Rid of Dampness

Job’s tears, the Chinese medicine Coix lacryma, can be fried directly or with wheat bran. Job’s tears are sweet, light and cool in nature, belonging to the spleen, stomach and lung meridian, it has the effect of inducing water and seeping dampness (to promote the operation of water to get rid of dampness), strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, removing paralysis, eliminating pus, and removing toxins to dissipate the effect of knots and is used for oedema, foot fungus, dysuria (unruly urine), diarrhea caused by spleen deficiency (diarrhea caused by the function of spleen weakness), and dampness paralysis and constriction. Raw Job’s tears are cold, long-term consumption is easy to cause spleen and stomach disorders, so you can choose to fry Job’s tears to reduce the coldness. Job’s tears, placed in a pot, heated with the fire, fried to yellow bulging, removed and cooled, that is, fried Coix. Take the bran, sprinkled in a hot pan, heated to smoke with medium heat, pour into the net coix seed, fried to the surface of the yellow bulging, remove, sieve the bran, cool, that is, the bran fried coix seed. Adverse effects of coix seed is not clear, pregnant women should be cautious, if you need to use the drug, it is recommended that patients under the guidance of a doctor, do not self-medication, so as not to affect your health.