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Pearl Barley’s Miraculous Medicinal Effects: Relieves Muscle Tension, Helps Prevent Cancer

Pearl Barley’s Miraculous Medicinal Effects: Relieves Muscle Tension, Helps Prevent Cancer
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Amber Yang
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Pearl barley, also known as Job’s tears, is both a food and a medicinal. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) believes it can reduce blood sugar, prevent cancer, and improve constipation. Many women drink pearl barley water to whiten and moisturize the skin and reduce edema. Mr. Zhang Weijun, the fifth-generation successor of Huaishengtang in Taiwan, told The Epoch Times that pearl barley is best used for relaxing muscles.

Pearl barley is rich in protein, fatty acids, vitamin B1, B2, vitamin E, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, and other minerals. It also contains various phytochemical components, including coixin, coix seed ester, coix polysaccharide, and other phytosterols or phenols compounds that significantly benefit the human body. Pearl barley ranks high among medicinals in the TCM classic “Shen Nong’s Materia Medica.”

Pearl Barley’s Best Benefit

TCM believes environmental forces cause many diseases. These are called the six exogenous evils: wind, cold, heat, dryness, dampness, and fire. TCM posits that internal dampness is either caused by the dampness evil invading the body or by visceral dysfunction. Either can result in water metabolism disorders where excess moisture is retained in the body, causing edema, fatigue, joint pain, and other complications.
Amber Yang is a certified personal trainer. She met all the requirements of the American Council on Exercise to develop and implement personalized exercise programs. She worked as a marketing manager for natural skin care products for years and as a health and beauty reporter and editor for ten years. She is also the host and producer of the YouTube programs "Amber Running Green" and "Amber Health Interview."
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