coix การใช้

• Job's-tears ( Coix Lacryma-Jobi ) produce hard seeds, white to bluish-gray and about the size of a pea, on 3-foot stalks.
• At the end of December 2010, two doctors from Japan, affiliated with the Japanese Society for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, came and brought Dede alternative medicine in powder form, made from coix seeds, or Job's tears.
• Particularly " Coix lacryma-jobi " var . " ma-yuen " has been used in the traditional Chinese medicine to invigorate the spleen function and promote urination, alleviate arthritis, arrest diarrhea, remove heat and facilitate the drainage of pus.
• The population of a number of economic plants such as " Saccharum " species, " Setaria pumila ", " Alpinia nigra ", " Hedychium spicatum " and the major food plants like the Zizania, Latifolia, " Carex " species, " Coix " species, Narenga has decreased resulting in starvation conditions for the endangered sangai deer.
• There are two main varieties of the species : the wild variety " Coix lacryma-jobi " var . " lacryma-jobi " has hard-shelled pseudocarps which are very hard, pearly white, oval structures used as beads for making rosaries, necklaces, and other objects; the cultivated variety " Coix lacryma-jobi " var . " ma-yuen " is harvested as a cereal crop, has a soft shell, and is used medicinally in parts of Asia.
• There are two main varieties of the species : the wild variety " Coix lacryma-jobi " var . " lacryma-jobi " has hard-shelled pseudocarps which are very hard, pearly white, oval structures used as beads for making rosaries, necklaces, and other objects; the cultivated variety " Coix lacryma-jobi " var . " ma-yuen " is harvested as a cereal crop, has a soft shell, and is used medicinally in parts of Asia.