Light Wheat (Fuxiaomai)
| Pharmaceutical Name: | Fructus Tritici levis |
| Botanical Name: | Triticum aestivum |
| Common Name: | Light wheat |
| Source of Earliest Record: | Bencao Mengquan |
| art 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 |