The efficacy and function of oat malt

Many people's morning breakfast is mainly oatmeal, which is simple to make, nutritious, and especially suitable for the elderly. Oat malt is actually what we call barley, which is completely different from wheat. So what are the effects and functions of oat malt? It is understood that oat sprout has the effect of reducing milk production, so it is not easy for pregnant women and postpartum women to eat it, but it has a good effect on aiding digestion. In addition, it can be matched with other ingredients to make food and has great nutritional value.

Barley is a biennial herb. The culm is thick, smooth and hairless, erect, 50-100cm high. The leaf sheaths are loosely clasping the stem; there are large auricles on both sides; the ligules are membranous, 1-2 mm long; the leaf blades are flat, 9-20 cm long and 6-20 mm wide. The spike inflorescence is 3-8cm long (excluding the awn), about 1.5cm in diameter. The spikelets are dense, with 3 developed spikelets on each node. The spikelets are usually sessile and 1-1.5cm long (except the awn); the glumes are linear-lanceolate, slightly pubescent, and the tip extends into an awn of 8-14mm; the lemma is glabrous on the back, with 5 veins, and the apex extends into a stalk. The awn is 8-15cm long, with fine spines on the edges, and the palea is equal in length to the lemma. The ventral surface of the caryopsis has longitudinal grooves or indentations, and short soft hairs at the tip. When mature, it is attached to the lemma and difficult to separate, but some cultivated varieties are easy to separate. The flowering period is March-April, and the fruiting period is April-May.

【Usage and Dosage】:

For oral administration: decoction, 10-15g, large dose can use 30-120g; or make into pills or powder.

【Notes】:

Not suitable for breastfeeding women.

① "Food Nature of Materia Medica": Eating it for a long time will weaken the kidneys, so don't eat too much.

② "Tangye Materia Medica": Cardamom, Amomum villosum, papaya, peony, Schisandra chinensis and black plum are the messengers.

③ "Bencao Jingliu": If there is no stagnation, people with weak spleen and stomach should not throw it away. '

④ "Bencao Zheng": Pregnant women should not take too much.

⑤ "Pharmaceutical Chemistry": It should not be used by those suffering from phlegm-fire asthma or pregnant women.

⑥ "Bielu": "It helps digest food and regulates the stomach."

⑦ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Digests all rice, flour and fruit food accumulation."

【Effects and functions of malt】:

Digest food and eliminate accumulation; promote lactation. Indigestion of staple food; abdominal distension and diarrhea; nausea and vomiting; loss of appetite; milk stagnation; breast pain. It is used to treat food stagnation, abdominal distension, loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhea, and breast edema.

① "Material Treatise": It can digest old food, break cold air, and relieve bloating in the heart and abdomen.

② "Qian Jin Shi Zhi": It can help digestion and regulate the stomach. Boil it into powder until it turns red and black, mash it into dough, stop diarrhea, mix it with clear vinegar juice and take it three times a day and once at night.

③ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): warms the middle, relieves qi, stimulates appetite, stops cholera, relieves restlessness, eliminates phlegm, breaks up knots, and can induce labor and abortion.

④ "Medical Origin": To replenish spleen and stomach deficiency, relax the intestines and stomach, mash it into small pieces and fry it until it turns yellow, then use the flour.

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": It can relieve fullness, relieve gas, stop vomiting, eliminate food stagnation, stop acid reflux, stop diarrhea, eliminate stomach and widen diaphragm, and treat women's milk retention and milk secretion.

【Additional prescription】：

① Quick-diaphragm eating: 4 liang of malt, 2 liang of Shenqu, 1 liang each of Atractylodes macrocephala and tangerine peel. Grind into powder and make steamed cake balls the size of walnuts. Each person should take 30 to 50 pills with ginseng soup. (Compendium of Materia Medica)

② Treat abdominal distension, constipation, shortness of breath, and restlessness after childbirth: grind one cup of wheat germ into powder, mix with wine and take it, the constipation will come after a long time. ("Military Collection of Prescriptions")

③To treat falling asleep after eating, which causes fatigue, which makes the limbs feel heavy and uncomfortable, and the patient want to lie down, especially after eating: 1 liter of barley root, 1 liang of pepper (boiled together), and 3 liang of dried ginger. Grind it into powder and take a spoonful of it three to four times a day. (Filling the gap at the back of the elbow)

④For treating postpartum fever, milk obstruction and swelling, and infertility: stir-fry 2 liang of wheat germ, and grind into fine powder. Take with clear soup, take four times. (Danxi's Heart Method)