Today, I dug an herb in the field. The local name is Susu Zaizai. I wonder what its title is. I took photos of leaves and roots here. I guess

Coix lacryma-jobi L. (Latin name: Coix lacryma-jobi L.) belongs to Gramineae. It is a stout panicum miliaceum with yellow and white fibrous roots, spongy, about 3mm in diameter, and its flowering and fruiting period is June-65438+February.

Location: Qichun, Hubei, Hunan, Hebei, Jiangsu, Fujian and other provinces.

Sweet, light and slightly cold. Among them, Siliushan Village in Qichun is the most famous, which has the functions of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, clearing heat and expelling pus, and beauty beauty. Coix seed is one of the traditional food resources in China, which can be made into porridge, rice and various pasta for human consumption. Especially suitable for the elderly, the weak and the sick.

Principal value editor

Medicinal value

Coix seed = Coix seed = Coix seed

Sexual taste

Gan; Light; Minor Cold

Meridian tropism

Spleen; Lung; Kidney meridian

Functional indication

Coix seed: diuresis and spleen strengthening; Relaxing tendons and removing arthralgia; Clearing heat and discharging pus. Main edema; Beriberi; Urine drops; Damp-heat disease; Diarrhea with diarrhea; Rheumatalgia; Tendon contracture; Carbuncle of lung; Intestinal carbuncle; Verruca plana [2]

Coix lachryma-jobi root: clearing heat and promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen and killing insects. Treat jaundice, edema, gonorrhea, hernia, amenorrhea, leukorrhagia and abdominal pain caused by insect accumulation.

1 classic: the next three worms.

(2) "Padding the back of elbow": when a patient dies of heart disease and chest pain, the root of Coix lacryma-jobi is filed flat and the juice is boiled.

③ Tao Hongjing: Children's Ascaris, take root and cook juice to eat.

4 "southern Yunnan materia medica": clearing urine. Treat heat stranguria pain, hematuria, hemostasis stranguria, jade stem pain and edema.

⑤ Compendium of Materia Medica: Treating lung abscess.

⑥ Outline: Treat jaundice with juice wine.

⑦ Herbal prescription: It can eliminate abdominal pain accumulation, promote defecation, and promote qi and blood circulation. Treat chest distress and internal injuries caused by childbirth.

⑧ Classified drugs: treating hernia.

Pet-name ruby "Zhejiang folk herbs": treating leucorrhea. [4]

Coix lachryma-jobi leaves: warm the middle and dispel cold; Tonify qi and blood. Main stomach cold pain; Deficiency of qi and blood [5]

dosage

Oral administration: decoction,10-30g; Or take medicine, break up, soak in wine, cook porridge and make soup.

pay attention to

This product is slow and should be taken for a long time. Spleen deficiency without dampness, dry stool and caution for pregnant women.

Various exhibitions

1, "Materia Medica": Coix lachryma-jobi, sweet and light in taste, slightly cool in gas, slightly reduced in permeability, so it can dispel dampness and promote diuresis, so it can benefit joints, remove beriberi, treat flaccidity, cramps, dampness, eliminate edema and pain, facilitate urination and hot showers, and also kill ascaris. Because of its slight decline, it also treats cough and pus and promotes appetite. Because of its cool nature, it can clear away heat, stop polydipsia and get angry. However, its skills are slow and should be used as an aid.

2, "drug meaning": Coix seed, sweet and harmonious, clear and turbid, can strengthen the spleen and nourish yin, benefit the stomach. Indications: diarrhea due to spleen deficiency leads to edema, and rheumatic intervertebral disc is slow, resulting in weakness of hands and feet and inability to bend and stretch. Because of dampness, soil failure, soil failure, gas recovery. Inflation is self-sufficient and self-generated. Take it into the lungs, nourish its source, and use it to treat upper energizer to quench thirst, lung carbuncle and intestinal carbuncle. And take the part with strong and heavy taste and cultivate it, and use it to treat beriberi, swelling and pain, and intestinal bleeding. If you cough up blood for a long time and eat less, it will be ineffective if you use gas slowly.

3, "Materia Medica": Coix seed, dehumidification is not as good as the second operation to help dryness, heat is not as good as Qin, and yin is not as good as ginseng. The operation is still hot and humid, and it is beneficial to the middle. However, its taste is weak and its strength is slow. If you don't belong to the group that helps you, you can concentrate. How can you play with it?

4, "New Edition of Materia Medica": Coix seed is the most beneficial to water and will not distort yin. It is best for people with wet lower body. Depending on the severity of the disease and the dosage, yin and yang will not hurt, and wet disease will go away easily. Therefore, in case of water-dampness syndrome, it is useless to use coix seed as a monarch, and it is not too quick to help strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. If the smell is mild and light, it is useless.

5, "Shu Shu Zheng": The commentator said that benefiting qi and eliminating dampness, and strengthening the spleen, coix seed, and surgery are similar, I don't know the difference of one millimeter, but also thousands of miles away. Clouds cover the gas, the technique is warm and moist, and the coix lachryma is slightly cold; What is the taste of the cloud? The technique is sweet, but the barley is light. Moreover, the taste of the operation is relatively strong, and the taste of Coix lachryma-jobi is relatively light, which is quite different. This meaning is found in synopsis of the golden chamber, which says that wet homes are troublesome and painful. When you take ephedra with soup and sweat as your home, be careful not to attack it with fire. This is called rheumatism, which is caused by sweating when the wind blows or catching cold for a long time. Can be matched with ephedra, almond, coix seed and licorice soup. Those who are troubled and miserable are wet and cold; All the people who suffer are wet and windy. Cold changes from yin and wind changes from yang. Therefore, people who are troubled and miserable belong to the sun; Playing on a hot day belongs to Yangming. People who belong to the sun should sweat, and those who belong to Yangming should clear away heat, so sweating can drive out yang evil, and clearing away heat can break yang evil. The essence is those who sweat with osmanthus and clear heat with coix seed. Although lachryma-jobi of Coix lachryma not only treats rheumatism, but also restrains main muscle cramps, so it can't bend and stretch, the joints are painful and annoying, and the body is painful and annoying, so it can't rotate sideways. Why not use coix lachryma-jobi alone? [2]

edibleness

Coix seed is also a kind of medicinal food, which has high beauty value. Clinical experiments have proved that coix seed has certain antibacterial and antiviral effects. The effective rate of treating verruca plana with it is 70.8%. The effective rate of treating verruca vulgaris is also 30.6%. Usage: take coix seed100g every day to cook porridge or soup. In the first few days, the area of warts will increase and turn red. After taking it for more than a month, the wart will gradually dry and peel off, which will gradually fade away. Long-term use can make skin smooth, delicate, white and shiny.

Biological experiments also prove that coix seed also has significant anti-cancer effect. When cancer patients have symptoms such as leukopenia, loss of appetite, ascites and edema during radiotherapy and chemotherapy, they may wish to eat barley as a meal.

1, stasis-removing Bauer porridge: 60g of Coicis Semen and 60g of Chinese yam, mashed into coarse powder, boiled in water until cooked, then added with 25g of persimmon cream cake, chopped, dissolved and taken at will. Originated in The Journey to the West. Yam and coix seed are drugs for clearing spleen and lung; Persimmon cream cake is made of persimmon cream, which can moisten the lungs and benefit the spleen. For spleen and lung yin deficiency, lazy diet, deficiency-heat cough.

2, glutinous rice porridge: glutinous rice is ground into coarse powder, which is equally divided with glutinous rice. Boil porridge with water, 1~2 times, once a day, for several days. From Compendium of Materia Medica. This recipe uses coix seed to cook porridge to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Used for spleen edema, rheumatic joint pain, limb contracture, etc.

3. Li Yu's arbitrary rice: 60 grams of Li Yuren, ground and filtered with water; 200 grams of coix seed, boiled with dark plum juice. Eat it twice. Originated from "loneliness". This recipe can induce diuresis and reduce swelling. The effect of dark plum kernel is similar to that of coix seed. It tastes slightly bitter and unpalatable, and is only used for juicing. Used for edema, dysuria, wheezing and chest distress.

4. Coix seed, melon petal and peach kernel soup: Coix seed 15g, winter melon seed 30g, peach kernel 10g and peony bark 6g. Decoct with water. Originated from "A Thousand Daughters Must Be Prescribed". Coix seed with winter melon seeds can clear away heat, promote diuresis and expel pus; The combination of peach kernel and peony bark can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Used for abdominal pain due to intestinal carbuncle, palpable mass in the right lower abdomen, constipation, short and red urine, etc. Peony bark tastes bitter and turbid, and honeysuckle and dandelion can be used to clear away heat and detoxify.

5, glutinous rice water chestnut Scutellaria barbata soup: glutinous rice, water chestnut, Scutellaria barbata each 30 grams. Decoct the soup with water and take it twice. This prescription has a certain inhibitory effect on tumors, especially Scutellaria barbata. Can be used for gastric cancer, cervical cancer, etc.

6, Coix seed soup: 60 grams of Coix seed, 6 grams of Arnebia euchroma. Add water to make soup. Take it twice for 2-4 weeks. This prescription has certain curative effect on juvenile verruca plana and verruca vulgaris.

7. Glutinous rice can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, sugar can treat acne, hawthorn can keep fit and lose weight, and carrot can beautify.

Medicinal material identification editor

Trait recognition

Nuts are oval or rectangular in width, 4-8 mm long and 3-6 mm wide. The surface is milky white and smooth, with occasional yellowish brown seed coat. One end is blunt and round, and the other end is slightly concave, with 1 light brown punctate hilum. The back is round and convex, and the abdomen has 1 longitudinal groove. Solid mass, white silty cross section. Slight breath, slightly sweet taste. Large and full grain, white color, no broken skin is preferred.

Microscopic identification of powder characteristics: the white-shaped main body is starch granules, single granule is round or polyhedral, with a diameter of 2-20μ m. The umbilical point is star-shaped, trigeminal, herringbone or fissure-shaped, and compound granules are rare, consisting of 2-3 sub-granules. [2]

chemical composition

Seed kernel contains coix seed ester, crude protein 13%- 14%, and fat 2%-8%. Among lipids, triacylglycerol 6 1%-64%, diacylglycerol 6%-7%, monoacylglycerol 4%, sterol ester 9%, and free fatty acid 17%- 18%. The linoleic acid content in triacylglycerol can reach 25%-28%, and the linoleic acid content in free fatty acid is 27%-28%. Free fatty acids include palmitic acid, stearic acid and cis -8-α- octadecenoic acid, namely oleic acid. Monoglycerides include α-monoglyceride, cis-and trans-feruloyl soybean sterols, cis-and trans-feruloyl rapeseed oil sterols, etc. Among sterol esters, ovulation can be promoted. The seed kernel also contains dextran with anti-complement effect, acidic polysaccharides CA- 1 and CA-2, and coix seed polysaccharides A, B and C with hypoglycemic effect. Seed volatile oil contains 69 components, among which hexanal, caproic acid, 2- ethyl -3- hydroxybutyric acid, γ-nonlactone and nonanoic acid are the main components. Octanoic acid, ethyl palmitate, methyl linoleate, vanillin and ethyl linoleate, etc. [2]

Plant culture editor

There is a kind of Chinese medicine called "Coix lachryma -jobi", which is related to an idiom called "Coix lachryma -jobi", which means to be wronged by being slandered for no reason. It comes from a historical story: Ma Yuan (General Fu Bo), a famous soldier in the Eastern Han Dynasty, led his troops to fight in southern Xinjiang, and many soldiers in the army were ill. There is a local folk method to treat scrofula with coix seed, and the effect is really remarkable after use. When Ma Yuan pacified southern Xinjiang, he brought back several coix lachryma-jobi drugs. Who knows that after Ma Yuan's death, someone falsely accused him of bringing back several cars of coix seed, which was a large number of pearls. This incident was regarded as an unjust case by the ruling and opposition parties, so it was called "the slander of coix seed". Bai Juyi also wrote a poem "Coix lacryma Fubo".