Light wheat (Fuxiaomai)
Triticum aestivum L.
Pharmaceutical Name: Fructus Tritici
levis.
Botanical Name: Triticum aestivum L. (fam. Poaceae)
Common Name: Light wheat, light wheat grain.
Source of Earliest Record: Bencao
Mengquan
Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical
Preparations: The light grain is first soaked in water and then dried.
Properties & Taste: Sweet and cool.
Meridian: Heart
Functions: 1. To tonify qi and clear
heat; 2. To stop sweating.
Indications & Combinations:
1. Weakness of the body manifested as
spontaneous sweating or night sweating. Light wheat (Fuxiaomai) is used
with Oyster shell (Muli), Astragalus root (Huangqi) and Ephedra root
(Mahuanggen) in the formula Muli San.
2. For active fever and fever of a Deficient type, it is used with Radix Ophiopogonis (Mai Dong), Radix Rehmanniae
(Sheng Di Huang), and Cortex Lycii Radicis (Di Gu Pi).
Dosage: 15-30 g, decocted in water for
internal use or stirbaked and ground into powder.
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