Millet bud

Millet bud

(compendium)

[synonyms] tiller rice (bielu), millet tiller (danliaofang), rice tiller (Gangmu), rice bud (Handbook of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the mature fruit of rice, which is a grass plant. See "japonica rice" for plant morphology.

[preparation method] take the picked rice, soak it in water for 1-2 days, take it out and put it in a container, cover it with wet pubao, drench it with water every day, keep it moist, and take it out and dry when the initial rooting (commonly known as bud) is about 3-6 mm long.

[medicinal material] the dried grain bud is oblong and flat, slightly pointed at both ends, 7-9 mm in length and 3-4 mm in width. The lemma surrounds the fruit, and the surface is yellow, hard, with short hairs and five veins. At the base, there are 2 white linear segments, about 2 mm long, in which 1-3 yellowish curved fibrous roots (primary roots) protrude from the inner side of one segment. Peeled lemma, containing 1 grain of white rice, hard, white section, powdery. No gas, slightly sweet taste. The best one is full, uniform, yellow and free of impurities.

It is produced in all rice producing areas in China, especially in the south.

In North China, it is customary to use the caryopsis of millet as a grain bud after germination. See "millet sprouts".

[chemical composition] it contains starch, protein, fat, amylase and vitamin.

[processing] stir fry the sprouts: put them in a pot, stir fry them gently until they are dark yellow and most of them burst. Take them out and let cool. Jiaoguya: put it in a pot, stir fry it with fire until it is scorched yellow, spray water slightly, take it out and air dry.

Sweet and warm.

① "Gangmu": "sweet, warm, non-toxic. "

② Ben Cao Jing Shu: "it tastes bitter and nontoxic. "

[channel tropism] entering spleen and stomach channels.

① "Materia medica Huiyan": "through the spleen, stomach two channels. "

② "The liver meridian of Jueyin in the foot and the heart meridian of Shaoyin in the hand" are the main points of the book of Materia Medica. "

③ In Bencao Zaixin: "entering the spleen and lung meridians. "

Functions and indications: Invigorating the spleen and appetizing, harmonizing and digesting. Treatment of food does not sleep, fullness, diarrhea, do not think diet.

① "Compendium": "quick spleen appetizer, lower Qi and middle, digestion and accumulation. "

② "Ben Hui Chu Shi". "

③ "Chinese herbal medicine manual": "treat spleen deficiency, heart and stomach pain, fullness, heat toxicity, diarrhea, thirst, emaciation. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.

[formula selection] ① Qi PI food: four liang of rice tillers, as the end, add ginger juice, a little salt, and make a cake, bake; into the fried licorice, Amomum villosum, Atractylodes macrocephala (bran fried) each one or two. For the end, white soup point service, or pill service. (tanliaofang Gushen pill)

② Diarrhea due to weakness of spleen and stomach: Poria cocos, Euryale ferox, jianqu, charou, lentils, Alisma orientalis, millet bud and licorice. (Jianpi Zhixie Decoction in measles Collection)

③ Xiaoshi, Jianpi, appetizer, Hezhong, shengjinye, yiyuanqi. After treatment, the spleen and soil are not healthy: Gu Ya steamed dew, to replace tea. (Gu Yalu, dictionary of Chinese Medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Gu Ya