What is Yi Yi Ren?
Yi Yi Ren is a
traditional Chinese medicine. It is the dried mature seed kernel of Coix lacryma-jobi L.var.mayuen (Roman.) Stapf, a plant of the family Gramineae. The plant is harvested in autumn when the fruit is mature, dried in the sun, the fruit is beaten off, and dried again, the shell, yellow-brown seed coat, and impurities are removed, and the seed kernel is collected.
Yiyiren is also known as
Yi Mi,
Coix Seed, or
Semen Coicis.

Yi Yi Ren vs. Yi Mi
Yi Yi Ren and Yi Mi are the same. Coix lacrymal is sweet, light, and cool in nature, belongs to the spleen, stomach, and lung meridian, and has the effect of diuresis, diuresis, paralysis, pus discharge, detoxification, and dispersion, mainly used for edema, foot odor, urinary discomfort, spleen deficiency diarrhea, damp paralysis detention, lung carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle; superfluous warts, cancer. It is mostly used clinically for spleen deficiency diarrhea, muscle soreness, and heaviness, joint pain, edema, foot odor, leucorrhea, lung abscess, appendicitis, etc. It should be used with caution for people with spleen deficiency and no dampness, and for people with dry stools. Chinese medicine treatment should be based on evidence-based treatment. Patients with discomfort are advised to go to a regular medical institution and not to use drugs at their own discretion to avoid adverse reactions.
Morphological characteristics of Yi Yi Ren
Yi Mi is an annual herb. Culms 1-1.5 m tall, with 6-10 nodes, much branched. Leaf blades broadly spreading, glabrous. Racemes axillary, male inflorescences located on the upper part of female inflorescences, with 5-6 pairs of male spikelets. Female spikelets are located in the lower part of the inflorescence, enclosed by a crustaceous involucre; involucre ellipsoid, apex into a neck-like beak with an oblique mouth, base short contracted, 8-12 mm long, 4-7 mm wide, with longitudinal straight stripes, thin texture, breakable by rubbing and finger pressure, dark brown or light brown. Glumes large, oblong, 5-8 mm long, 4-6 mm wide, 3-4 mm thick, ventral surface with wide grooves, base with brown seed hilum, texture powdery firm, white or yellowish white. Male spikelets ca. 9 mm long and ca. 5 mm wide; stamens 3, anthers 3-4 mm long. Chromosome 2n=20. flowering and fruiting period July-December.
Growth environment of Yi Yi Ren
Yi Yi Ren is distributed in tropical and subtropical Asia, mainly in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Java, Indonesia, the Philippines, and China. It is commonly cultivated or escaped in southeastern China and is produced in Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, and other provinces. It grows in warm, moist ten marginal lands and valley ravines, and is more common below 2000 m.
Part of the medicine

Yi Yi Ren is the dried mature seed kernels of Coix lacryma-jobi L Varma-yuen (Roman) Stapf, a plant of the family Gramineae.
The plants are harvested in autumn when the fruits are ripe and dried in the sun, the fruits are cut off and dried again to remove the outer shell, yellowish-brown seed coat, and impurities, and the seed kernels are collected.
Yimi is broadly ovoid or long elliptical, 4-8 mm long, 3-6 mm long. surface creamy white, smooth, with occasional remnants of yellow-brown seed coat; one end blunt
Rounded at one end, wider and slightly concave at the other end, with a light brown dotted seed navel; rounded and convex abaxially, with a wider and deeper longitudinal groove on the ventral surface. Firm, white, powdery in section. The odor is slight, taste smiling.
Yiyiren benefits
Yi Yi Ren herb
Yi Yi Ren is sweet, mild, and cold in nature. Yimi belongs to the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians.
Yiyiren is sweet, mild, and tonic, slightly cold and clear, and enters the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians. It induces diuresis without harming the proper function and strengthens the spleen without nourishing it. In raw form, it is sweet, mild, and slightly cold, and is a diaphoretic and clear tonic, which can clear dampness and heat, remove paralysis and drain pus, and slightly strengthen the spleen. Stir-fried is mild in nature, sweet, light in nature, and tonic in nature, strengthening the spleen, permeating dampness, and stopping diarrhea. Raw use is good for relieving dampness, removing paralysis, clearing heat, and draining pus; fried use is good for strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea.
Relieves dampness and strengthens the spleen, relaxes tendons and removes paralysis, clears heat and drains pus
Coix seeds are the dried mature seeds of the plant Coix lacrymal, which has high nutritional value and is known as the "king of the world's grasses", and in Europe is known as the "health of life grain". Coix seeds have the characteristics of easy digestion and absorption, whether for tonic or for medical effects are very gentle, and cooked with fire are cooked Coix seeds. The coix seeds have the efficacy of moistening and strengthening the spleen, soothing the tendons and removing paralysis, and clearing heat and draining pus.
Beneficial to dampness and spleen
Semen Coicis contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, has a role in promoting metabolism and reducing the burden on the stomach and intestines, can be used as a tonic food for patients who are sick or weak after illness, regular consumption of Coix seed food for chronic enteritis, indigestion, and other diseases also have an effect, with the effect of dampness and strengthen the spleen.
Relieve tendons and remove paralysis
Yi Yi Ren can be eaten by people with heavy dampness, which can effectively remove dampness, clear heat, and drain pus, with the effect of soothing tendons and removing paralysis.
Clearing heat and draining pus
Coix lacryma is sweet, light, and slightly cold, and is used for pulmonary and intestinal carbuncles, with the effect of clearing heat and draining pus.
Yi Yi Ren side effects
Yi Yi Ren, also known as
Yi Mi, has the side effect of an increased redness of the rash and increased inflammation but the reaction will disappear after a few days of continued use.
Yiyiren is a traditional Chinese medicine, the dried mature seed kernel of Coix lacryma, a genus of Coix of the family Gramineae, which is sweet, light and cool in nature, and belongs to the spleen, stomach, and lung meridians, with the effects of diuresis (promoting the movement of water to dispel dampness), strengthening the spleen, stopping diarrhea, and removing paralysis and pus. It can be used for the treatment of oedema, foot odor, urinary discomfort (poor urination), spleen deficiency diarrhea (diarrhea caused by weakness of the spleen), pulmonary carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle (carbuncle occurring in the intestinal organs, manifested by fever, pain in the right abdomen, and palpable lumps), etc.
In the treatment of flat warts, most cases will occur before the rash disappears, the rash will increase in redness and inflammation, and the reaction will disappear after a few days of continued use; note that it is prohibited for those who are allergic to the product, allergic people should use it with caution, and pregnant women should use it with caution.
If you need to use
Yiyi Ren, it is recommended that you use it properly under the guidance of a physician, and does not use it without permission to avoid adverse reactions.
Application of Yi Yi Ren

Yi Yi Ren is mainly eaten by brewing and boiling soup. In addition, it can also be fried yellow and eaten directly.
a. Take the powdered coix seeds and then take them with boiling water so that it can help to strengthen the spleen and promote the effect of dampness.
b. The soup is mainly to make barley porridge or red beans and barley porridge, but because the coix seeds are not easy to cook, it is best to use warm water to soak for more than three hours before cooking, the cooking time of the porridge needs to be controlled in about an hour.
c. Stir-fry is mainly to wait until the pan is hot and then sprinkle the Yiyiren herb, generally need to fry until slightly yellow or aroma, and then let cool and eat directly.
Yi Mi is useful for treating edema, dampness, strengthening the spleen, removing paralysis, clearing heat, and expelling pus, and can be used for treating edema, inconvenient urination, pain around the body caused by dampness, diarrhea caused by spleen deficiency and dampness, chest pain and coughing up pus and phlegm caused by heat in the lung and intestines. During the medication period, you must pay attention to the dietary adjustment, it is best not to eat spicy and stimulating food, and also need to closely observe the condition of the medication and its own recovery, if there are abnormalities need to promptly inform the doctor, and then make targeted adjustment program. It is also necessary to develop good living and eating habits in daily life.
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