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Coix lachryma-jobi

Scientific Name
Coix lachryma-jobi
Family Name
Gramineae
Common Names
Job’s tears , adlay.
Local Names
Tasbi, kalo kuch, kawoakathi. (Bangladesh), Jargadi (India), Yulmu (Korea),Yeomju (Korea), Ý dĩ, bo bo, cườm gạo (Vietnam)
Description
Perenial herb (China)
An erect, perennial grass. Leaves liner-lanceolate, narrowed up from a broad cordatebase, midrib stout, ligule narrow, membranous. Racemes nodding or drooping fromlong peduncles carrying male and female spikelets. Fruits subglobose or ellipsoid,bluish grey, smooth, polished, tear-shaped grains. (India)
An annual grass reaching 1.5m in height. Glabrous climber; leaflets 5, oblong oroblong-obovate, 3-5cm Long, 1-2cm Wide, somewhat retuse, obtuse to rounded atbase, entire, slightly glaucescent beneath; flowers pale purple, the pistillate 2.5-3cmacross, long-pedicellate; sepals broadly elliptic, 15-20mm long, the staminate 12-16mm across, on upper part of raceme, the pedicels slender; sepals 7-8mm long; fruit5-8cm long, oblong, becoming dark purplish when mature. (Korea)
Shrubby herbaceous plant, l-2m tall. Stems glabrous, hollow. Leaves alternate, strap-shaped, base surrounding the stem; margins wavy. Inflorescence in erect axillaryspikelet; flowers unisexual, the two sexes on the same plant. Fruit oval, shining,smooth, greyish, with a thick and hard pericarp (Vietnam)
Uses
Tonic, diuretic, catarrh, affections, inflammation, urinary, tract, menstrual disorders(Bangladesh)
Rheumatism, boils, pneumonia, beri-beri, diarrhoea, urination problems (China)
Menstrual disorders, cathartic, pneumonia, pectoral diseases, depurative (India)
Diuretic, strengthen stomach, anodyne, anti-inflamation, gonorrhea, amenorrhea,leucorrhea (Korea)
Enteritis, diarrhoea, oedema, urinary, lithiasis, rheumatism, acrodynia (Vietnam)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Korea - Gyeongnam Hamyang Medicinal Plant Experimantal Station
Vietnam - Ha Noi
Remarks
Coix lachryma-jobi (GRIN)

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