Somaek
Wheat · Tritici Fructus
한글 소맥 · Pinyin Xiao Mai
小麥
Properties 性味
- Taste & nature
- Sweet · cool
- Channels entered
- Heart
- Actions
- Nourishes the Heart and calms the spirit — the grain for visceral agitation
- Typical dose
- 15–30 g
Appears in 8 formulas 處方
- Licorice, Wheat, and Jujube Decoction甘麥大棗湯 20 g · Deputy 臣
- Coptis in Pig's Stomach Pill for Rigid Center黃連猪肚丸 200 g · Deputy 臣
- Bland Bamboo Shavings Decoction淡竹茹湯 8 g · Chief 君
- Five Steamings Decoction五蒸湯 40 g · Envoy 使
- Pyrrosia Powder石韋散 0 g · Envoy 使
- Ophiopogon Decoction麥門冬湯 g · Assistant 佐
- Anemarrhena Decoction知母湯 g · Envoy 使
- Wheat Decoction Powder麥煎散 0 g · Envoy 使