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薏苡
Job’s Tears

Latin name: Coix lacryma-jobi L.

Family: Poaceae

Part Used: Mature kernel

Properties: Taste sweet, tasteless, cool in nature

Actions:Diuretic and dampness, invigorating the spleen and stopping diarrhea, removing paralysis, draining pus, detoxifying and resolving stagnation

Usage:Diarrhea, damp arthralgia, contracture of tendons and vessels, inconvenient flexion and extension of the joints, edema, beriberi, consumptive lung disease, pulmonary abscess, acute appendicitis

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