Job’s tear is Coix lacryma, wheat is wheat, the difference lies in the source of the drug, sexual flavor attribution, efficacy, main treatment.
1. Drug source: Job’s tears are the dried mature seed kernels of the plant Coix lacryma, family Graminae; wheat is the dried mature fruit of the plant wheat, family Graminae.
2. Job’s tears taste sweet, light, cool. It belongs to the spleen, stomach and lung meridian; wheat is sweet in flavor and slightly cold in nature; it belongs to the heart and spleen meridian.
3. Efficacy: Job’s tears have the effect of inducing diuresis (promoting the flow of water to dispel dampness), strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, removing paralysis, draining pus, detoxification and dispersal of knots; wheat has the effect of nourishing the heart, removing heat, quenching thirst, and restraining sweating.
3. Different applications: Job’s tears are used in the treatment of edema, foot fungus, dysuria (irregular urination), diarrhea in the spleen, paralysis of dampness, intestinal carbuncles (carbuncles occurring in the bowels of the intestinal organs, with fever, right abdominal pain, can be felt as a lump), etc.; wheat is used in the treatment of dirty mania (upset and depressed, sadness and wanting to cry for no reason), irritable heat (irritable and stuffy), thirst, sweating, dysentery, carbuncle, trauma, bleeding, scalded, etc..
When taking Chinese medicine, it is necessary to do so under the diagnosis and treatment of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.