Job’s tears, Coix lacryma, red beans, Coix lacryma, Poria can be served together to seep dampness, diuresis and swelling, the treatment of edema and other diseases, should follow the doctor’s instructions for medication.
The efficacy of the red bean is to promote water retention and eliminate swelling, pus and detoxification. Used for edema, jaundice, urine and redness, swollen feet, canker sores, rheumatism-heat paralysis (often manifested as joint muscle burning, pain, redness and swelling, etc.), carbuncle (carbuncle occurs in the bowels of the intestinal organs, to fever, right abdominal pain, can be touched for the manifestation of the lump) abdominal pain.
Excessive use of adzuki beans can injure the fluid. The people with Yin deficiency and fluid injury should be cautious of using red beans.
Job’s tears are used to strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, promote water retention and seepage of dampness (to promote the flow of water to dispel dampness), expel pus, remove paralysis, detoxification and dissipation of knots. It is used for edema, dysuria (unsmooth urination), dampness paralysis, diarrhea in spleen deficiency, foot odor, lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, cancer, warts (sarcoma on the skin). Stool dryness, spleen deficiency without dampness.
Poria efficacy is seeping dampness and inducing diuresis, tranquilizing the heart and strengthening the spleen. It is used for edema with low urine output, palpitations and insomnia, palpitations, restlessness of the heart, phlegm (pathological product formed by impaired water metabolism), deficiency of the spleen with low food intake, dizziness, and loose stools (thin and unformed feces) and diarrhea. Poria should be taken with caution for those with deficiency cold and slippery semen, and those with Qi deficiency and subsidence.
Red beans, Semen Coicis and Poria are used in combination for the efficacy of seepage of dampness, diuresis and swelling, for the treatment of edema and urination, foot odor and other conditions, should be used under the guidance of a doctor to identify the evidence.