Coix seeds

Common/vernacular names Coix seeds, Chinese pearl barley, pearl barley, semen coi-cis, adlay, yokuinin, yiyiren, and yimi. 

Coix Seeds (Coix lachiyma-Jobi var. ma-yuen Stapf)... 

Coixans A,B, and C Coix lachryma-jobi L.var. mayuen Stapf/Gramineae Seeds Coixans A, B, and C exhibited hypoglycemic effects in normal mice and coixan A showed a hypoglycemic effect when administered to alloxan-induced hyperglycemic mice [81]. 

Takahashi, M., C. Konno, and H. Hikino. 1986. Isolation and hypoglycemic activity of coixans A, B and C, glycans of Coix lach-ryrrm-pbi-vAT. ma-yuen seeds. PlantaMed. 52(l) 64-65. 

Tzeng, H.P., W. Chiang, T.H. Ueng, and S.H. Liu. 2005. The abor-tifacient effects from the seeds of Coix lachryma-jobi L. var. ma-yuen Stapf. /. Toxicol. Env. Health A 68 17-1S) 1557-1565. 

The seeds of this plant (Coix lacryma .), hard, brilliant, and neatly spotted, are used for beads. The epidermis is so heavily impregnated with silica that opal can be scratched with it, according to Prison (94). 

CA-2 arabinoxylo 3,6-galactan 70,000 anti-complementary activity Coix lacryma-jobi var. Ma-yuen, seeds 1987 [28]... 

Yamada H, Yanahira S, Kiyohara H, Cyong JC, Otsuka Y (1986) Water soluble glucans from the seed of Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen, Phytochem 25 129-132... 

X. Lu, W. Liu, J. Wu, M. Li, J. Wang, J. Wu, md C. Luo, A polysaccharide fraction of adlay seed Coix lachryma-jobi L.) induces apoptosis in humsm non-smaU cell lung cjmcer A549 cells, Biochem. Bioph. Res. Co., 430 (2), 846-851,2013. 

Alcohol extractives retarded the oxidation of linoleic acid in vitroThe six compounds isolated from Coix hull possessed free radical scavenging activity in the DPPH assay/ The methanolic extract of the seed also inhibited the production of nitric oxide and superoxide ions in activated macrophages in vitro, which supports the anti-inflammatory effect of job s tears/ ... 

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