Product Description

Jobs Tears, also known as adlay and coix, is a member of the grass family and popular in Asian cultures as a food source and for making jewelry. But the plant has also been used for centuries in folk medicine to treat dozens of conditions from arthritis to smallpox. Scientific research investigating Jobs Tears hasn't been conducted much outside China and Korea, but results from those studies are discovering properties in the plant that may have potent health benefits.

Allergies

One of the traditional uses for Jobs Tears is to treat allergies, including topical preparations of plant extracts for an allergic skin condition called contact dermatitis. Research published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in June ***3 found that extracts from the plant also suppressed allergic reactions in laboratory mice and boosted their immune systems.

Cholesterol

Diabetic mice were fed the seeds from Jobs Tears plants along with a high-cholesterol diet for four weeks in a study published in the International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research in September ***6. Compared to a control group, the seed-eating mice had significantly reduced levels of total cholesterol and harmful low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, cholesterol.