The efficacy and function of malt and barley sprouts

Barley malt is a plant and a Chinese herbal medicine. It also has high medicinal value. It can treat many diseases and is of great benefit to the health of the body. Barley malt is a food that is relatively easy to digest and absorb, and is especially suitable for the elderly. Malt also has the effect of weaning. Many mothers will choose to boil malt in water and drink it after weaning their babies, which is very helpful in weaning.

Harmonize the stomach and help digestion

Barley sprouts are sweet and warm in nature, and enter the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the function of digesting food, so it can be used for symptoms such as indigestion. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can stimulate appetite, relieve gas and soothe the stomach, and help digestion and eliminate stagnation."

Strengthens the spleen and stimulates appetite

Barley sprouts are sweet and warm in nature, and can warm the spleen yang and regulate the middle qi. Therefore, it can be used for various diseases caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "It has the property of biochemical transformation, so it is an important medicine for digestion, strengthening the spleen, stimulating appetite and harmonizing the stomach."

Heat toxic diarrhea

It is characterized by abdominal pain, tenesmus, and mucus mixed with red, white, pus and blood in the stool. "Discussion on Causes and Pulse Treatment of Dysentery" states: "Dysentery is characterized by blood and pus in the stool, which may be red, white, yellow, or a mixture of all three. It is accompanied by a heavy feeling in the abdomen and a desire to defecate but not being able to do so. After having defecate, one has to go to the toilet again, which is very stressful and annoying." It often occurs in summer and autumn when the heat fumigates the body and causes the toxins of the season, which enter the gastrointestinal tract and compete with the blood and qi, turning into blood and pus and causing dysentery. Barley sprouts are important medicines for strengthening the spleen and appetite, harmonizing the stomach, and have the function of relieving gas and relieving fullness. After use, the spleen is strengthened and qi is lowered, and evil heat is eliminated. "Ben Cao Jing Shu" says: "When the spleen and stomach are in harmony, the middle part is warm, the qi goes down, and the heat is eliminated." "Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook" says: "It can treat spleen deficiency, heart and stomach pain, bloating, and diarrhea caused by heat toxins.

Loss of body fluid and thirst

After a serious or long-term illness, or due to yin deficiency and excessive fire, the virtual fire is burning, or the spleen is weak and cannot transport body fluids, all of which lead to lack of body fluid and thirst. Symptoms include dryness during the day, preference for drinking water, and unquenchable thirst. Barley sprouts are sweet in taste, can produce body fluids and relieve restlessness, strengthen the spleen and regulate the middle, promote qi and eliminate heat. "Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine": "It can treat thirst and weight loss."

Application of malt sprouts

Prescriptions for curing diseases

Spleen deficiency and loss of appetite:

Grind 124 grams of malt sprout into powder, add appropriate amount of ginger juice and salt, make into cakes, and bake dry; take 31 grams each of roasted licorice, amomum villosum, and atractylodes (fried with bran). Grind into powder, mix the powder with white soup, eat the cake and drink the juice. Diarrhea due to weak spleen and stomach: Take equal amounts of Poria cocos, Euryale ferox, Jianqu, Zharou, lentil, Alisma orientalis, barley sprout and licorice, decoct in water and drink the soup.

Poor spleen and stomach function after treatment:

The dew from the steamed buds can be used as a substitute for tea. For the treatment of exogenous rheumatism in children with vomiting and fever: 15g of barley sprout, 6g of patchouli, 4.5g each of cicada molt and saposhnikovia divaricata, 9g of Poria cocos, 15g of Sophora flavescens, 3g of mint (added later), and 2.1g of Coptis chinensis. Decoction in water.