How to Use Germinated Barley-mai ya and its extracts?

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Properties,Effects,Indications and Applications all for Germinated Barley.

Germinated Barley Extract INCI Name Hordeum Vulgare Extract CAS 85251-64-5 EINECS ELINCS No 286-476-2 Fructus Hordei Germinatus photo picture image Properties: The herb is sweet in flavour, neutral in nature, and it acts on the spleen, stomach and liver channels. Being sweet for tonifying the spleen and nourishing the stomach, it can regulate Qi, alleviate depression, relieve food stagnation. It is particularly good at eliminating undigested flour food. The herb is often used to treat deficiency of the spleen, anorexia, food retention, indigestion and other syndromes. A large dose of barley is lactifugal.

 Effects: Promoting digestion, inducing appetite, stopping lactation and relieving flatulence; Improving digestion andstopping milk secretion.

 Action: Unprocessed Fructus Hordei Geraminatus: To invigorate the functionof the spleen, to regulate the function of the stomach,and to promote the flow of milk. Fructus Horidei Germinatus (stir-fried): To promote digestion,and to check the secretion of milk.

 Functions: Promotes digestion, strengthens the stomach, stops milk secretion and relieves flatulence.

 To stimulate digestion and remove the retention of undigested food.
 Unprocessed Fructus Hordei Germinatus : Anorexia due to diminished function of the spleen; galactostasis.
 Indigestion; weaning a baby.
 Retention of undigested food with epigastric distension and pain.

 Indications:

 1. The herb is often used in combination with medicated leaven, hawthorn fruit, areca seed and other herbs for relieving food stagnation, to treat food retention, anorexia, distention and fullness in the stomach and abdomen and indigestion, and with white atractylodes rhizome amomum fruit, chicken's gizzard-skin and other drugs for supplementing Qi, strengthening the spleen, promoting digestion and inducing appetite, to treat deficiency of the spleen and anorexia.

 2. To cease lactation and to relieve distending pain due to milk accumulation, a large dose of the herb can be decocted for use.

 Used for:

 1.For anorexia, feeling of fullness in the stomach and abdominal distension due to food retention and indigestion, it is often used in combination with hawthorn fruit and medicated leaven.

 2. For stopping milk secretion, orgalactostasis and distending pain in the breasts, equal amount of unprepared and stir-baked germinated barley are decoct-ed together in water for an oral dose. In addition, this herb also has theeffect of soothing depressed liver,so it can be used as a subsidiary herb for treating syndrome of stagnation of the liver-qi.

 Applications:

 1. To treat syndromes of retention of rice, wheat, potato, taro or other food:
 a) Syndromes of retention of rice, wheat, potato, taro or other food:
 This herb can be used together with hawthorn, medicated leaven, chicken gizzard membrane, etc.

 b) Infantile indigestion:
 It is effective when decocted alone or ground into powder for oral administration.

 c) Poor appetite due to deficiency of the spleen and abdominal distention after eating:
 This herb can be used together with largehead atractylodes rhizome (Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae), dried tangerine peel, etc.

 2. To treat distending pain in the breasts due to cessation of milk secretion:

 This herb is effective when 120 g. raw or parched malt (or 60 g. each of raw and parched malt) is decocted alone.

 3. To treat hypochondriac pain, abdominal pain, etc., due to stagnation of liver-qi or incoordination between the liver and the stomach:
 It can be used together with other liver-soothing and qi-regulating herbs.

 Reference Materials:

 'Other Medical Records of Famous Physicians' :
 "Promoting digestion and normalizing the functioning of the spleen and stomach."
 'The Compendium of Materia Medica' :
 "Promoting the digestion of all kinds of stagnated rice, wheat, fruits and other food."

 Modern Researches:

 This herb contains amylase, glycosyl-transferase, proteolytic enzymes, vitamin B, maltose, glucose, calcium, phospholipids and trace amounts of hordenine.

 The digestive enzyme and vitamin B contained in barley can assist in digestion. Its decoction can promote the secretion of gastric juice and pepsase. The amylase contained in barley cannot withstand high heat, and the efficacy of malt decoction is equivalent to only one-third of that of the powder. About half of its potency will be lost after it is parched.

 The ergot compounds contained in the raw malt can inhibit the secretion of prolactin. The oral administration of malt extract can reduce blood sugar.
 Barley is also used as a poultice for burns and wounds.
 Barley the plant has a folk history of anti-tumour activity.

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last edit date:25th,June.2009.