What are the effects and functions of Coix lacryma-jobi?

Coix lacryma-jobi is a herb that can be picked all year round. It basically grows in Jiangsu and other places. However, the flowers of Coix lacryma-jobi are usually used as medicine. Most of these flowers bloom in autumn. This Chinese medicinal material can clear the liver and improve eyesight after taking it. It even has magical effects on diseases that are difficult to cure, such as night blindness. Not only that, it can also treat many diseases, so it is loved by everyone.

Herba Glehniae is cool in nature; spicy and sweet in taste; and enters the liver and stomach meridians. It has the effects of dispelling wind and heat, improving eyesight and removing cataracts. Treat eye opacity, nystagmus, headache, toothache, throat congestion and epistaxis. Contraindications: It is forbidden for patients with blood deficiency and eye diseases.

Coix lacryma-jobi is the dried inflorescence with flower buds of the Coix lacryma-jobi plant of the Coix lacryma-jobi family. It is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places. Harvest in autumn, pull out the inflorescences and flower buds, dry them, and cut them into sections. Use raw.

This product was first recorded in the Song Dynasty's "Kaibao Materia Medica". Li Shizhen said: "It is produced from the residual air in the grain fields, so it is called grain essence." It is also said: "This grass grows in wasteland after the grain is harvested, and can be found in many places north and south of the river. It grows in clusters, and its leaves are like young grain seedlings. It has thin stems, four or five inches high. There are small white flowers on the top of the stems, dotted like stars. The flowers are picked in September and dried in the shade. Those who say it is picked in February or March are wrong." He believed that the effect of Glechoma longituba in improving eyesight and removing cataracts was better than that of chrysanthemum.

For treating malnutrition: 15g of Coix lacryma-jobi and 15g of Potentilla flavescentis. Decoction in water. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

(21) To treat all sequelae and difficult-to-heal leukorrhea: Take 1 liang of Coix lacryma-jobi and pig bone marrow. Decoction with wine and take until it feels better. (Wen Tang Ji Yan Fang)

(22) To treat urinary incontinence: 30g each of Coix lacryma-jobi and Glechoma longituba. Take with simmered water. (Guizhou Herbs)

This article introduces the effects and functions of Coix lacryma-jobi in detail. People always have excessive liver fire in the body in autumn. At this time, you might as well take some Coix lacryma-jobi, but you still have to figure out your own constitution before taking it. In this way, you can prescribe the right medicine for the disease. It can also be taken together with Cassia seed and Chrysanthemum as appropriate.