Wiseman’s Chinese Medical Database

xiǎo mài / 小麦 / 小麥 / wheat

Latin pharmacognostic name: Tritici Semen

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Origin: Plant

Use: alimentary

Category: Astringent agents / Sweat-checking agents

Properties: Sweet; cool.

Channel entry: heart, spleen, and kidney channels.

Indications:

Nourishes the heart, reinforces the kidney, eliminates heat, and allays thirst.

visceral agitation (zàng zào); heat vexation; dispersion-thirst (xiāo kě); heat strangury with inhibited urination. Used to treat visceral agitation (zàng zào) in ganmaidazaotang.

See also:

fú xiǎo mài (浮小麦 Tritici Fructus Levis, light wheat [grain])