Coix lacryma-jobi

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
An annual 1 to 6 feet high. Leaves long and slender, parallel-veined. Stems with white pith. Flowering heads nodding and consisting of the female flowers enclosed in a very hard, nearly globular capsule like covering which is green at first but turns black and then white with age; male flowers extend from the heads in drooping tassel-like form (20).
Besides the use for ornamental purposes, Job’s tears grains are useful as a source of food (cereals) and folk medicine.
Thye Root and Seeds of Job’s Tears is used for bdominal tumors, fever, esophageal, diabetes, dysentery, gastrointestinal, and lung cancers.