This product is produced by sprouting and drying the mature fruits of barley (Hordeum vuigare L.), an annual herbaceous plant in the grass family. Produced all over the country, the wheat grains are soaked in water and kept at a suitable temperature and humidity. When the sprouts grow to about 0.5cm, they are dried. Use raw or fried.

[Property]

sweet, neutral. act on spleen, stomach and liver channels.

[Efficacy]

It helps digestion and strengthens the stomach, terminating lactation and reducing bloating.

[Indications]

1. Used for rice noodle and potato syndrome/pattern of dyspepsia. This product can promote the digestion of starchy foods. Can be used equivalently with hawthorn fruit, Medicated Leaven, Chicken's Gizzard-Skin. If you want to treat stagnation of milk and food in children, it is effective to use this product alone to decoct it or grind it into powder. If you want to treat spleen deficiency due to eating less and feeling full after eating, you can use it with White Atractylodes Rhizome or Dried Tangerine Peel.
2. For terminating lactation and distending pain in the breast. It is effective to use 120g of raw or fried Germinated Barley alone, or 60g of each of raw and fried Germinated Barley.
3. In addition, this product can both soothing liver and relieving depression, and can be used for liver qi stagnation or liver and stomach disharmony such as hypochondriac pain, epigastric pain, etc. It can be used together with other soothing liver and regulating qi medicines.

[Documentation]

1. Bielu: "Promoting digestion to harmonize the middle."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "Digesting all rice, flour and fruit food accumulation."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoction, 10~15g, large dose 30~120g. Raw Germinated Barley is mainly used for digestion and stomach strengthening, and stir-fried is mostly used for terminating lactation and reducing bloating.

[Precaution]

It should not be used by lactating women.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains amylase, invertase, proteolytic enzyme, vitamin B, maltose, glucose, phospholipid and trace amounts of malt base, etc. The digestive enzymes and vitamin B contained in this product aid digestion. Germinated Barley decoction promotes the secretion of gastric acid and pepsin. The amylase contained in it is not resistant to high temperatures, and its effectiveness in digesting starch by decoction is only equivalent to one-third of that of the powder; after stir-frying to yellow, the effectiveness is approximately half lost. The ergot compounds contained in raw Germinated Barley have the effect of inhibiting the secretion of promoting lactation hormones. Germinated Barley extract has the effect of lowering blood sugar when taken orally.