Germinated Millet (Guya)
| Pharmaceutical Name: | Fructus Oryzae Germinatus Fructus Setariae Germinatus |
| Botanical Name: | Oryza Sativa L. Setaria Italica (L.) Beauv. |
| Common Name: | Germinated Millet |
| Source of Earliest Record: | Bencao Gangmu |
| art Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: | The germinated rice sprouts are dried in the sun. |
| Properties and Taste: | Sweet and neutral |
| Meridian: | Spleen and stomach |
| Functions: | To eliminate food retention and harmonize the stomach To improve appetite |
| Indications and Combinations: | 1. Retention of food. *Use with Medicated leaven (Shenqu) and Hawthorn fruit (Shanzha). 2. Weakness of the spleen and stomach manifested as poor appetite. *Use with Pilose asiabell root (Dangshen), White atractylodes (Baizhu) and Tangerine peel (Chenpi). |
| Dosage: | 10-15 g |