Yi Mi Ren (Coix Seed / Job’s Tears) — Guizhou Dried Food Herb, 500g

Yi Mi Ren (Coix lacryma-jobi), also known as Coix Seed or Job's Tears, is the dried, polished grain of a highly revered food herb known in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as Yì Yǐ Rén (薏苡仁). For centuries, Yi Mi Ren has been prized as a gentle, dampness-transforming and spleen-supporting grain, used in daily congee, soups, and seasonal tonics to support lightness of body and clear fluid metabolism. Its nature is sweet, bland, and slightly cool, making it a mild yet profoundly useful grain for harmonizing the Spleen, draining dampness, and supporting comfortable joint and skin wellness.

Key Selling Points

• Traditional dampness-transforming food herb
• New-crop Guizhou small-grain Coix Seed
• Grade 1, kernel purity ≥ 99%
• Naturally sun-dried, clean and low-impurity
• 500g broken-grain pack for congee and soup

Quality & Sensory

Each batch is naturally sun-dried to preserve its creamy ivory-white color, firm rounded texture, and faintly nutty, grain-like aroma. The kernels are clean and uniform with minimal impurity, and when simmered they soften into a plump, chewy bite, releasing a mild, subtly sweet and starchy flavor that blends smoothly into congee, soups, and grain blends without overpowering other ingredients.

Technical Specifications

Usage Scenarios

• Daily congee and grain porridge
• Chinese-style soup and broth
• Herbal tea blends with red bean or barley
• Seasonal damp-weather food therapy
• Medicinal food soup-pack ingredient

Traditional Uses

In folk herbal practice, Yi Mi Ren is decocted into congee, soups, and gentle daily tonics to support the Spleen and help transform dampness during humid seasons. It is a classic companion to red bean (Chi Xiao Dou) in congee, and is often simmered with Chinese yam, lotus seed, and jujube in medicinal food soup packs. As a daily grain, it is cooked alone or blended into teas for a light, mildly sweet infusion that fits easily into spring and summer nourishment routines.

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