What are the effects and functions of floating wheat?

Floating wheat is a medicinal herb rarely seen in daily life, but it plays a vital role in most traditional Chinese medicines. This is because the main effect of floating wheat is to treat the symptoms of increased sweating and night sweats. It also has the effects of regulating the body, stabilizing the heart, and replenishing the blood. It can also be used in combination with many Chinese herbal medicines.

Floating wheat application

Spontaneous sweating and night sweats.

This product is sweet and cool and enters the heart, can nourish the heart qi and restrain the heart fluid; it is light and floats on the surface, can strengthen the pores and firm the skin and hair, and is an excellent product for nourishing the heart, restraining fluid, strengthening the surface and stopping sweating. It can be used for people suffering from spontaneous sweating and night sweats. It can be roasted and ground into powder and taken with rice soup. For the treatment of spontaneous sweating due to qi deficiency, it can be used together with astragalus, calcined oyster, ephedra root, etc., such as oyster powder (Hejijufang); for the treatment of night sweats due to yin deficiency, it can be used together with Schisandra chinensis, Ophiopogon japonicus, Rehmannia glutinosa, etc.

Bone steaming and fatigue fever.

This product is both sweet and cool, and can replenish qi and yin and eliminate deficiency heat. It is used to treat symptoms such as yin deficiency fever, bone steaming and fatigue fever, and is often used together with Scrophularia ningpoensis, Ophiopogon japonicus, Rehmannia glutinosa, and Rehmannia root bark.

【Identification Application】

Both floating wheat and wheat can invigorate qi, nourish the heart and eliminate heat. However, the former is more effective in eliminating superficial heat and stopping sweating, so it is more commonly used for bone steaming and night sweats. The latter is more effective in invigorating qi and nourishing the heart, eliminating restlessness and quenching thirst, and is more commonly used for symptoms of visceral agitation, restlessness, and thirst.

Both floating wheat and ephedra root can stop sweating and are often used together to treat night sweats and spontaneous sweating. Floating wheat can replenish qi and eliminate heat and stop sweating. It has the function of strengthening the body and expelling evil spirits, and it also has astringent properties. Ephedra root only has astringent properties and has no power to strengthen the body.

The effect of floating wheat

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet, salty, cool.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Sweet and salty, cold, non-toxic.

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Salty, cool."

[Functions and indications] Treats bone steaming and fatigue fever, and stops spontaneous sweating and night sweats.

① "Bencao Mengquan": "Relieves false sweating.

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can replenish qi and eliminate heat, stop spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bone steaming and deficiency heat, and overwork fever in women.

③ "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "It nourishes the heart, relieves restlessness, eliminates heat, restrains sweat, and promotes urination.