Coix seed (Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing) is the dried and mature seed kernel of Coix lacrymae, a plant of the grass family. It is cultivated all over the country. Alias: Coix rice, coix seeds, earth corn, barley, Kisei, Jiazhuzi, Huihui rice, rice kernel, six valley seeds. Taste and properties: sweet, light, cool. It belongs to the card, stomach and lung meridians. Effects: Strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, promoting water retention and swelling, promoting dampness and removing paralysis, tonifying deficiency and stopping coughing, clearing heat and draining pus. Indications: 1. Spleen deficiency diarrhea, edema, etc. Take fried coix seeds in decoction. Add ginger for cold and dampness, mung beans for dampness and heat, and ginger and fried yam for spleen deficiency, 3 times a day. 2, rheumatism paralysis, tendon contracture, muscle numbness. Boil porridge with Job’s tear, and eat it often. Or 30g of Job’s Tears with 10g of Ephedra, 10g of Almond and 10g of Licorice, decoction, once a day for 1 week. 3, Spleen and lung yin deficiency, deficiency heat and cough. Use 50g of Coix seeds, add 20g each of lily, saxifrage and yucca, add 3000ml of water and decoct into 1000ml for taking. 4, Dripping and astringent pain in urine. Use 50g of Coix lacrymae, add 15g each of Plantago lanceolata and Amaranthus lanceolata, and take with decoction. 5, lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle and other evidence. Take an appropriate amount of Coix seeds to cook porridge for consumption. Clinical application: 1, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and metabolic syndrome. Take an appropriate amount of Coix seeds to cook porridge for consumption. 2, anti-tumor. Used in the adjuvant treatment of stomach cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, breast cancer, etc. 3, flat warts. Adults daily take fresh raw coix seeds 50-60g, water decoction, while taking coix seeds coarse powder with vinegar mixed into a burnt compress on the affected area. 4, acne. It can be taken with a decoction of 20g of Coix seed, 10g of Huanglian, 15g of honeysuckle, and 10g of forsythia. 5, functional dysmenorrhea. Wash 100g of Coix seeds, add water and decoct it into thin soup once a day, start taking it 3 days before menstruation and serve until the dysmenorrhea disappears in this cycle. Modern research: 1, the main active ingredient of Coix seeds, esters, can inhibit the formation of tumor blood vessels, promote apoptosis, inhibit cell proliferation and inhibit the regulation of enzymes, and have anti-tumor effects. 2, coix seed polysaccharide can affect insulin receptors after glucose metabolism, but also inhibit the decomposition of glycogen, promote gluconeogenesis, for the treatment and improvement of diabetes. 3, Job’s Tear contains Job’s Tear as an analgesic active ingredient, has a mild analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect, can relieve cancer pain and inflammatory response. 4, coix seeds can promote the secretion of ovarian gonadotropic hormones by regulating the function of hypothalamus and significantly improve ovulation function. 5, coix lactone in coix seeds has a contractile effect on muscles, sedation, inhibition, analgesia and cooling and antipyretic effects on the central nervous system, and also has the effect of lowering blood pressure, antibacterial and other effects. In addition, coix lactone also has the health and anti-aging beauty effects. Note: Not suitable for those with little sweat and constipation. Because Coix lactone can promote uterine contraction, pregnant women should use it with caution. It should be used raw to clear heat and dampness, and fried to strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea.