"What is the Ideal Quantity of Floating Wheat to Use at Once?"
Recommended Dosage and Daily Consumption of Floating Wheat
The recommended dosage of Floating Wheat is approximately 30 grams per serving.
Regarding daily consumption, it is advisable to consume Floating Wheat in moderation, with around 30 grams being suitable for daily intake. Overconsumption is not recommended. When preparing Floating Wheat, it can be directly cooked into porridge with other grains and cereals. Alternatively, it can be combined with red dates to enhance its benefits and reflect the blood-enriching properties of red dates. Additionally, Floating Wheat can be stir-fried in a pan and consumed directly.
Cooking Methods with Floating Wheat
Ingredients: 50g of Floating Wheat, 6 pieces of red dates, 60g of glutinous rice
Method: Clean the Floating Wheat, red dates, and glutinous rice separately, removing any impurities. Place them in a pot and add an appropriate amount of water. Bring the mixture to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat to medium and simmer until the porridge is cooked.
Benefits and Effects of Floating Wheat
- Spontaneous Sweating and Night Sweats: Floating Wheat has a sweet and cool nature that nourishes the heart qi and regulates heart fluids. Its light and floating properties strengthen the pores and skin, making it effective in nourishing the heart, regulating fluids, and stopping sweating. It can be used to treat both spontaneous sweating and night sweats, either alone or in combination with other herbs such as huangqi, calcined oyster shell, and ephedra root for qi deficiency, or with schisandra, ophiopogon, and cortex lycii for yin deficiency.
- Bone Steaming and Labor-Induced Heat: With its sweet and cool nature, Floating Wheat nourishes qi and yin while removing deficiency heat. It is often combined with herbs like xuan shen, ophiopogon, radix rehmanniae, and cortex lycii to treat symptoms like yin deficiency fever, bone steaming, and labor-induced heat.
Appearance of Floating Wheat
Dry and shriveled Floating Wheat fruits are oblong in shape with slightly pointed ends, approximately 7mm long and 2.6mm in diameter. The surface is yellowish-white and wrinkled, and may still have unremoved outer glumes. A deep longitudinal groove runs along the ventral surface, with a blunt tip and light yellow-brown soft hairs. The other end is obliquely pointed with an umbilicus. The texture is hard and brittle, easy to break, revealing a white cross-section with poor constructability. It is odorless and has a bland taste. The best quality Floating Wheat is characterized by uniform particle size, lightness, and the absence of impurities.
