Uses:

WHEAT (Xiao Mai)
1. Nourishes Heart Yin, Calms the Spirit:

-Agitation, Irritability, Restlessness
-Insomnia, Dream-disturbed heat
-Emotional disorders, Hysteria, Melancholy, mild Depression
-Anxiety

2. Benefits the Kidneys, Promotes Urine:

-Dysuria
-Diabetes Mellitus

3. Externally:

-softens Tumors
-applied to Inflammations including Erysipelas and Gout
-applied as a cold poultice to Eye inflammations
-Boils, Skin diseases and Ulcers (Ayurveda)

LIGHT WHEAT (Fu Xiao Mai)
1. Benefits Qi, Clears Heat, Stops Sweating:

-Spontaneous Sweating
-Sweating from Deficiency

2. Nourishes Yin, Clears Heat:

-Night Sweating from Yin deficiency Heat
-Steaming Bone Syndrome
-Yin-Deficient Fever, Hectic Fever

Main Combinations:

WHEAT (Xiao Mai)
1. Worry, anxiety, dream-disturbed sleep, Wheat, Chinese Date (Da Zao), Licorice (as in Gan Mai Da Zao Tang)
2. Emotional disorders, Wheat, Paeonia Bai Shao, Cyperus rotundus (Xiang Fu), Polygala Yuan Zhi, Mother of Pearl (TCM)
3. Dysuria, Wheat with Plantains seed
4. Inflammations and Erysipelas, mix Wheat flour, Honey, Oil and Water, and apply.
5. Gout, mix Wheat flour with Henbane juice and apply.
6. Red Eyes, apply wheat bread soaked in Rose water.
7. Boils, mix Wheat flour, Egg yolk, Honey and a little Saffron (or Safflower), apply.

LIGHT WHEAT (Fu Xiao Mai)
1. Spontaneous Sweating, Light Wheat (Fu Xiao Mai), Astragalus Huang Qi, Oyster shell powder
2. Steaming Bone disorder, Light Wheat (Fu Xiao Mai), Rehmannia Sheng Di Huang, Ophiopogon Mai Men Dong, Lycium Cortex Di Gu Pi

Major Formulas:

Gan Mai Da Zao Tang
Mu Li San

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