Job’s tear rice, also known as barley, has the characteristics of medicine and food, slightly cold and sweet, which is beneficial to reduce swelling, strengthen the spleen, remove dampness, but also soothe the tendons and remove paralysis, clear heat and drain pus. The most common is to cook barley directly barley water or barley porridge, at the same time there are the following ways to eat: 1, yam barley meal: you can soak barley for about half a day, and yam, wolfberry, red dates, oats, etc. add water and stew slowly until barley is cooked; 2, barley porridge: barley, glutinous rice, japonica rice, rock sugar can be cooked together, but because the texture of barley is hard, so you need to soak for more than 2 hours, after cooking Add glutinous rice and japonica rice better; 3, barley red bean water: generally choose red beans, soak with barley for about half a day can be added to the slow cooking of water. The combination of barley and red beans has a strong effect of dispelling dampness, mild in nature and less harmful to the body; 4, barley and winter melon soup: barley and winter melon in addition to soup, you can also add yam, poria, lotus seeds and other porridge, generally in a pot of medium slow boil for about 30 minutes. Job’s tear can also boil tea and cook with Chinese herbs such as ginseng, atractylodes, licorice, etc., and the practice is not limited. However, it should be noted that people with cold body, poor spleen and stomach function, as well as people with low blood sugar, low blood fat and pregnant women should try to avoid eating barley.