The correct name for Job’s tears as a Chinese medicine is Coix lacryma. Poria’s effects are to promote water retention and seepage of dampness (to promote the flow of water to get rid of dampness), strengthen the spleen, and tranquilize the mind; Lily’s effects are to nourish yin and moisten the lungs, clear the mind and tranquilize the spirit; Job’s tears are to promote water retention and seepage of dampness, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, remove paralysis, expel pus, and remove toxins to dissipate knots.
1. Poria is the dried mycelium of the fungus Poria, family Poriaceae. Sweet taste, light, flat, to the heart, lung, spleen, kidney meridian. The main treatment for heart and mind restlessness, palpitations and insomnia, spleen deficiency with little food, loose stools (feces thin and unshaped) diarrhea, phlegm and drink vertigo palpitations (due to phlegm and drink evil caused by vertigo and palpitations), edema and urination. Yin deficiency without dampness and heat, cold and slippery semen, qi deficiency and subsidence should be taken with caution.
2. Lily for the lily family plant curly Dan, lily or fine-leafed lily of the dry fleshy scaly leaves. Sweet taste, cold nature, to the heart, lung meridian. The main treatment of yin deficiency and dry cough, coughing up blood with labor, false annoyance (body heat caused by the annoyance) palpitations, insomnia, sleeplessness, trance and so on. Wind-cold cough and cold loose stools should not be taken.
3. Job’s tears are the dried mature seed kernels of the plant Coix lacryma, family Gramineae. Taste sweet, light, cool, to the spleen, stomach, lung meridian. It is used for the treatment of lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle (carbuncle occurring in the intestinal organs, manifested by fever, right abdominal pain and palpable lumps), diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, dampness paralysis, edema and urination, and warts (sarcoma growing on the skin). Pregnant women should be cautious, adverse reactions are not clear.
If you need to take Poria Lily Job’s Tears, it is recommended to consult a healthcare professional.