Brown sugar is warm, nourishing, promoting blood circulation and beautifying. Generally used for warm conditioning of body cold and palace cold. Regulate female dysmenorrhea, dark menstrual blood, irregular menstruation, etc. Help the parturient discharge lochia, and match with loofah to help the parturient breastfeed.

You can usually eat together. If you use red beans to clear heat, it is not recommended to put brown sugar.

Coix lachryma? Todd. ) Also called: Coix lacryma-jobi, Coix lacryma-jobi and Liuguzi, which are the seeds of Coix lacryma-jobi in Gramineae. It is cool in nature, sweet and light in taste, and enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians, which is beneficial to strengthening the spleen, removing arthralgia, clearing heat and expelling pus. Coix seed is born in warm and humid ten squares and valleys, and it is common below 2000 meters above sea level.

Extended information coix seed? Todd. ) Also called: Coix lacryma-jobi, Coix lacryma-jobi and Liuguzi, which are the seeds of Coix lacryma-jobi in Gramineae. It is cool in nature, sweet and light in taste, and enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians, which is beneficial to strengthening the spleen, removing arthralgia, clearing heat and expelling pus. Coix seed is born in warm and humid ten squares and valleys, and it is common below 2000 meters above sea level.

Widely cultivated or escaped in the southeast of China, it is produced in Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan, Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces. Distributed in tropical and subtropical Asia, India, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Java, Indonesia and the Philippines. Type specimens were collected from China.

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