Light Wheat
(fu xiao mai)
Fructus
Tritici Levis
Properties:
It is sweet in flavour, cold in nature, and tropistic to
the heart channel. Being sweet in flavour, it functions in
supplementing Qi and consolidating superficies for
treatment of spontaneous perspiration; and as a cold drug,
it can clear lever of deficiency type for treatment of
night sweat. It , as a main herb for stopping sweating,
can be used to treat spontaneous perspiration, night sweat
and perperal hyperhidross.
Effects:
Replenishing Qi, clearing hectic fever and stopping
sweating.
Indications:
1. For spontaneous
sweating due to Qi deficiency, it is often used with Radix
Astragali, Concha Ostreae and Radix Ephedrae to replenish
Qi, consolidate superficies and to stop sweating; for
night sweat due to Yin-deficiency, it is used with
Yin-nourishing and sweat-arresting herbs such as Fructus
Schisandrae, Radix Paeoniae Alba and Fructus Cornietc.
2. For fever of
Yin-deficiency, night sweat and hectic fever, it is used
with herbs for nourishing Yin and reducing asthenic heat,
such as Radix Rehmanniae, Cortex Lycii Radicis, Rhizoma
Anemarrhemae, Radix Stellariae, etc.
Dosage
and Administration:
15-30g.
