What is the best match for Job's tears

Job's tears can be eaten with many kinds of food to achieve good nutritional effects. Moreover, the nutritional value of job's tears is different when it is put together with each kind of food. For example, if you cook it into porridge with some nourishing items, it can have the effect of clearing away heat and nourishing. In addition, eating more porridge cooked with coix seed can supplement the good fiber and prevent various diseases. So what is the best pairing with coix seed?

Job's tears, also known as coix seed, job's tears, rice kernel, pearl rice, five-grain rice, Huihui rice, Bodhi beads, medicinal corn, water corn, ditch rice, Tiangu, Job's tears, grass bead essence, and Qishi. Job's tears is known as the "king of grasses in the world". Information: Job's tears contain 16.2% protein, 4.65% fat, 79.1% carbohydrates, 330 mg of vitamins, amino acids, coixol, coix fat, triterpenoids and starch, etc., and have high nutritional value.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coix seed is cold in nature and enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians. It has the functions of strengthening the spleen, nourishing the lungs, clearing away heat, and penetrating warmth, and is also beneficial for balancing blood pressure and blood lipids. "Compendium of Materia Medica" mentions that coix seed "strengthens the spleen and stomach, nourishes the lungs and clears away heat, dispels wind and dampness, nourishes the skin, maintains beauty, makes the body light and prolongs life." It can be used to treat weak spleen and stomach, hypertension, urinary tract stones, urinary tract infection, ascariasis, etc. It also has the effects of preventing and fighting cancer, diuresis, antipyretic, and strengthening the body.

In the past, ordinary people did not know enough about the role of coix seed and generally ate it as a grain. It tastes similar to rice and is easy to digest and absorb. It can be used to cook porridge or soup. Only in recent years have people fully recognized the health benefits of coix seed, and its uses have become increasingly widespread. Because coix seed is rich in nutrients, it is a good medicinal food for patients with long-term illness, patients in the recovery period after illness, the elderly, postpartum women, and children, and can be taken frequently. Whether used for nourishing or curing diseases, the effect is relatively mild, slightly cold without hurting the stomach, and beneficial to the spleen without being greasy, so it is gradually favored by people, and of course, the price is also rising steadily.

There are many ways to eat coix seed, and most people use it to make porridge. Since it is a health food that came onto the market later, there are many people who have introduced its production methods, and you can search for them. Generally speaking, people cook porridge with other health ingredients according to their physical condition for nourishment. Its ingredients generally include: yam, codonopsis, hawthorn, lily, astragalus, red dates, ginkgo, lotus seeds, etc. They are all mild and nourishing things, which are of great benefit to the body. You can mix and match them reasonably according to your body's needs.

Most edible coix seeds are served with only one ingredient. But there are exceptions. For example, in the "Eight Treasure Porridge", the authentic recipe includes coix seed. There is also a representative product called "Babao Qingbuliang", which is a good food therapy in summer but not suitable in winter. In order to give you an intuitive understanding of the preparation of coix seed recipes, a brief introduction is as follows:

Prepare ingredients: 40 grams each of coix seed, yam, lotus seeds, and jujube, 20 grams each of lily, adenophora, citron, and polygonatum. (If you choose to pair this recipe with rice or glutinous rice, you can make a variety of barley porridge).

Cook the above ingredients together into soup, add sugar, and drink it with the soup and the residue. It is a refreshing tonic in hot summer and for people with weak body and excessive internal heat who cannot be affected by warming tonic. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, relieving restlessness and calming the mind. It is suitable for symptoms such as lung deficiency cough, chronic diarrhea, physical weakness and sweating, dry mouth and insomnia at night, frequent dreams, male spermatorrhea and nocturnal emission, and female leucorrhea.