The seed has a pleasant mild flavour it can be used in soups and broths. It can be ground into a flour and used to make bread or used in any of the ways that rice is used. The pounded flour is sometimes mixed with water like barley for barley water. The pounded kernel is also made into a sweet dish by frying and coating with sugar. It is also husked and eaten out of hand like a peanut. The seed contains about 52% starch 18% protein 7% fat. It is higher in protein and fat than rice but low in minerals. This is a potentially very useful grain it has a higher protein to carbohydrate ratio than any other cereal though the hard seedcoat makes extraction of the flour rather difficult. The fruits are anodyne anti-inflammatory antipyretic antiseptic antispasmodic hypoglycaemic hypotensive sedative and vermifuge. The fruits are used in folk remedies for abdominal tumours oesophageal gastrointestinal and lung cancers various tumours as well as excrescences warts and whitlows. This folk reputation is all the more interesting when reading that coixenolide has antitumor activity. The seed with the husk removed is antirheumatic diuretic pectoral refrigerant and tonic. A tea from the boiled seeds is drunk as part of a treatment to cure warts. It is also used in the treatment of lung abscess lobar pneumonia appendicitis rheumatoid arthritis beriberi diarrhoea oedema and difficult urination. The roots have been used in the treatment of menstrual disorders. This is a potent 5 to 1 powdered extract meaning that one gram of extract is equal in potency to 5 grams of herb. This extract is packed in 2’s nitrogen-flushed safety-sealed dispenser bottle a sample of which is pictured above. Plum Flower is one of the most distinguished herb houses in the world. This is a pure herbal product with no additives. Extracted from sulfur-free and chlorine-free herbs for superior quality. Manufactured in a low-temperature water extraction process to preserve herb

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