Triticum (Fu Xiao Mai)

Chinese Bulk Herbs – Triticum (Fu Xiao Mai)

Triticum or Fu Xiao Mai is used to help stop sweating, night sweats, and children from bed wetting. It can also help with heart palpitations and insomnia.
This herb is sweet and cool and can be applied to stop deficient sweat, such as it in Du Sheng San rooted from Wei Sheng Bao Jian. It also can replenish heart qi and lung qi. It is a good herb to stringe fluid through nourishing heart and strengthening superficies to check sweating.
This hcrb can tonify qi, nourish yin and clear heat. For fever of yin deficiency and bone-steaming tidal fever, it is combined with heat-clearing and yin-nourishing herbs, such as Xuan Shen, Mai Dong, Sheng Di Huang, Di Gu Pi, etc.

Clinical Use (Chinese):
Stops excessive sweating from deficiency patterns – night sweats, spontaneous sweating. Nourish the heart – palpitations, insomnia, irritability. stops childhood bed wetting.

Latin Name:
Triticum aestivum

Chinese Name:
Fu Xiao Mai

Common Names:
Wheat, common wheat, bread wheat

Parts Used:
Immature wheat grain

Properties:
Cool, Salty, and Sweet — Works on the heart

Cautions:
None at this time.

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