薏苡仁为禾本科植物薏苡的成熟干燥种仁。味甘、淡、凉,归脾、胃、肺经。我国传统中医药学认为它具有健脾渗湿、除痹止泻、清热排脓之功效。现笔者将其抗癌作用介绍如下。抗癌的依据:医学研究人员用薏苡仁的醇提取物对艾氏腹水瘤小鼠进行腹腔注射后发现,对癌细胞有抑制作用。一是使癌细胞原浆变性;二是使癌细胞核分裂停止于中期。薏苡仁丙酮提取物对小鼠子宫颈癌-14(u-14)与HCA实体瘤均有明显抑制作用;其水醇法提取物对小鼠实体瘤和肝癌H22有明显抑制作用。实验多次重复,抑瘤率稳定在40％～50％之间,并且对上两种瘤株有明显的预防效应。经进一步分析认为,抗癌的有效成分与薏苡仁所含的不饱和脂肪酸及酯类衍生物有关。另有专家认为薏苡仁酯对癌细胞有阻止成长及损害作用。另外,科学家们还发现其浸出物能增强人们的体液免疫,使巨噬细胞产生并分泌白 Coix seed is a mature and dry seed of grasses. Sweet, light, cool, spleen, stomach, lungs. Traditional Chinese medicine in our country believes that it has the effect of spleen and dampness, removing phlegm and diarrhea, and removing heat and pus. Now the author describes its anti-cancer effect as follows. The basis of anti-cancer: medical researchers used the alcohol extract of Coix seed for intraperitoneal injection of Ehrlich ascites tumor mice and found that it had an inhibitory effect on cancer cells. One is to denature the original plasma of the cancer; the other is to stop the mitotic division of the cancer cell in the middle period. Coix seed acetone extract significantly inhibited cervical cancer-14(u-14) and HCA solid tumors in mice; its water-alcohol extract had significant inhibitory effects on solid tumors and H22 tumors in mice. The experiment was repeated several times, and the tumor inhibition rate was stable between 40% and 50%, and there was a clear preventive effect on the two tumor strains. According to further analysis, the active ingredients of anticancer drugs are related to unsaturated fatty acids and ester derivatives contained in barley kernels. Another expert believes that Coix seed esters can prevent cancer cells from growing and damaging. In addition, scientists have also found that their extracts can enhance people’s humoral immunity, causing macrophages to produce and secrete white