This product is the immature caryopsis of wheat (Trticum aestivum L.), an annual herbaceous plant of the Gramineae family. Produced everywhere. When harvesting, lift up those that are light and shriveled, or wash them out in water. Those that float are better and dry them in the sun. Use raw or fried.

[Property]

sweet, cool. act on heart channel.

[Efficacy]

Curbs sweat, tonifying qi, and removes heat.

[Indications]

1. For spontaneous sweating, night sweat. Light wheat is sweet and cool, can reduce sweating, and has tonifying qi, nourishing the heart, and removing heat. It can be applied to those with yang deficiency spontaneous sweating and yin deficiency night sweat. It can be ground into powder with stir-frying to brown and mixed with rice water. To treat spontaneous sweating, it can be used with Astragalus Root, Forged oyster shell , Ephedra Root, such as Oyster Shell Powder; to treat night sweat, it can be used with Schisandra Fruit, Ophiopogon Tuber, Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark Wait for the combination of medicinals to nourish yin and suppress sweat.
2. Used for steaming bone fever. This product has tonifying qi and heat-removing effects, and can be used for yin-deficiency fever, steaming bone fever, labor fever and other syndromes. It is often used with Scrophularia Root, Ophiopogon Tuber, Unprocessed Rehmannia Root and Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark are used equally to nourish yin and clearing heat, to reduce sweat and eliminate steam.

[Documentation]

1. Bencao Mengquan: "Control sweating."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "tonifying qi, remove heat, stop spontaneous sweating, night sweat, steaming bone fever, tiredness" "Hot, women suffer from fatigue."
3. Benjing Fengyuan: "Fumai can astringe night sweat and dissipate heat from the skin."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 15~30g; grind into powder and take, 3~5g.

[Precaution]

Exterior pathogens should not be used by those who sweat.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product mainly contains starch and vitamins.