Coix seed: Also known as Coix seed, native corn, Coix seed, Qishi, Yizhuzi bead, Caozhuzhu bead, Huihui rice, rice kernel, and Liumillet. It is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine. It is also a common and frequently eaten food. It is sweet and light and slightly cold in nature. It is beneficial to the effects of water swelling, strengthening the spleen and removing dampness, relaxing the muscles and tendons to eliminate arthralgia, clearing heat and expelling pus. It is a commonly used drug for promoting water and dampness.
It is also a kind of beauty food. Regular consumption can keep human skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne, spotted bird, age spots, pregnancy spots, and butterfly spots. It has good curative effects on desquamation, acne, rhagades, rough skin, etc. Spleen deficiency without dampness, dry stools and pregnant women take it carefully.
Winter melon: Sweet and light in taste, slightly cold in nature, can clear heat and phlegm, eliminate annoyance and quench thirst, and make diuretic and reduce swelling
Coix rice and white gourd pork ribs soup
By AlexieOrn
Recipe Recommendations
- glutinous rice appropriate amount
- winter melon appropriate amount
- ribs appropriate amount
- ginger slices appropriate amount
- salt appropriate amount
Steps for Coix rice and white gourd pork ribs soup

1
Soak the coix seed overnight, wash the wax gourd and cut it into pieces.(The wax gourd skin is a good thing, wash it and cook it together) The ribs are blanched and washed with blood.
2
Put all ingredients in a pressure cooker and simmer for 45 minutes, add a little salt to taste. Everyone knows that soup is better if it is cooked out of an open fire. Isn't this for saving? hehehe