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{{stub}}[[File:Coix lacryma-jobi 2015-08-29 5609.jpg|thumb|right|''Gavedhuka'']]'''Gavedhuka''' consists of the dried root of Coix lachryma-jobi Linn. syn. C. lachryma Linn. (Fam. Gramineae), is a perennial or annual grass found in India, . It is widely distributed throughout the plains and warm slopes of hills upto 1500 m. 

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Benzoxazolinones, amino acids (leucine, tyrosine, histadin, arginine and coicin). The seeds contain trans-ferulyl stigmastanol and titoleic and vaccerans-ferulyl campestanol. Seeds contain coixenolides, a mixed ester of palmnic acids. <ref name="chemical composition"/>

{{Flower|Unisexual|2-4cm long|pinkPink||Flowering throughout the year and In terminal and/or axillary pseudoracemes}}

{{Fruit|oblong Oblong pod|Thinly septate, pilose, wrinkled|||seeds Seeds upto 5|Fruiting throughout the year}}

Job's Tears grows best in the moister areas of the tropics, succeeding at elevations up to 2,000 metres. It is reported to tolerate an annual precipitation in the range of 610 - 4290mm, an average annual temperature of 9.6 to 27.8°c and a pH in the range of 4.5 to 8.4<ref name="How to plant/cultivate"/>

<ref name="Leaf">[ "Morphology"]</ref><ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Coix+lacryma-jobi"Cultivation detail"]</ref>