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[Variety Source]

This product is the mature caryopsis of wheat. Those that do not sink in water are light wheat.

[Property]

sweet, cool. act on heart, spleen and kidney channels.

[Efficacy]

It can nourish the heart and spleen, relieve restlessness and quench thirst, and facilitate urination.

[Indications]

  1. Used for visceral agitation (hysteria) in women who feel happy or sad. Use this product in combination of medicinals with Liquorice Root and Chinese Date. (Jingui Yaolue Licorice, Wheat and Jujube Decoction)
  2. For chronic diarrhea, deficiency-cold dysentery. Fry the wheat noodles till brown and mix with warm water. (Yinshan Zhengyao)
  3. It is used for irritability, consumptive thirst and dry mouth. Use this product to cook porridge. (Shiyi Xinjian)
  4. It is used for those who have trouble urinating and have heat. Take this product with Ricepaperplant Pith in decoction. (Yanglao Fengqin Shu)

[Documentation]

  1. Neijing calls wheat the valley of the heart, which is good at nourishing heart qi. Often used for uneasiness caused by insufficiency of heart qi.

[Usage and Dosage]

30~60 grams. Decoction, cook porridge, etc.

[Modern Pharmacology]

Contains starch, protein, fat, crude fiber, sitosterol, lecithin, arginine, amylase, maltose enzyme, protease, vitamin B, etc.

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