Pharmaceutical Name:

Fructus Tritici levis

Botanical Name:

Triticum aestivum

Common Name:

Light wheat

Source of Earliest Record:

Bencao Mengquan

Part Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations:

The light grain is first soaked in water and then dried.

Properties and Taste:

Sweet and cool

Meridian:

Heart

Functions:

To tonify qi and clear heat
To stop sweating

Indications and Combinations:

Weakness of the body manifested as spontaneous sweating or night sweating. 

*Use with Oyster shell (Muli), Astragalus root (Huangqi) and Ephedra root (Mahuanggen) in the formula Muli San.

Dosage:

15-30 g