WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

It is the immature caryopsis of Triticum aestivum L.,family Gramineae. When harvested, the wheat is washed and the floated ones are selected to be fried in the sunshine. The raw or stire-baked form is used for medication.

[Medicinal Properties]: Sweet and cool; relate to the heart meridian.

[Medicinal Efficacies]: Strenghten superficies and arrest sweating; tonify healthy qi, eliminate heat.

[Clinical Applications]:

Spontaneous sweating and night sweating             The medicinal can be used individually in its parched form, it is ground into powder and taken with rice water orally. For spontaneous sweating due to deficiency of qi, it can be combined with Huangqi. Muli and Mahuanggen, such as in the formula Muli Powder. In cases of night sweating due to yin deficiency, it is usually used together with Wuweizi and Maidong. 

2.Hectic fever and overstrain-fever               In treating hectic fever and overstrain-fever, it is often used together with the medicinals that nourish yin and clear asthenia-heat such as Xuanshen, Maidong, Shengdihuang, and Digupi.

[Usage and Dosage]: 15-30g is used for oral use. Ground into powder 3-5g.

[Precautions]: It is contraindicated in those patients who have affected by exogenous pathogens accompanied with sweating.

[Annotation]:Xiao Mai              The medicinal is the mature caryopsis of Triticum aestivum L., family Gramineae. It is sweet and cold, and relates to the heart meridian. Its efficacies are to nourish the heart and eliminate emotional agitation. This medicinal is indicated for unpeaceful mind, restlessbess, insomnia, and emotional disturbance (lily syndrome) in woman. 30-60g is the dosage, it is made into a decoction and consumed orally.

浮小麦为禾本科植物小麦Triticum aestivum L.未成熟的颖果。各地均产。收获时，扬起其轻浮干瘪者，或以水淘之，浮起者为佳，晒干。生用，或炒用。