Wheat is the collective name for wheat plants. It is a gramineous plant widely cultivated around the world. It originated in the Fertile Crescent (Levant) region of the Middle East and is one of the earliest cultivated crops in the world.

It is an annual or biennial herb with upright, hollow stems, wide strip-shaped leaves, oval seeds, and grooves on the ventral surface. Zishi is used for making flour and is one of the main food crops. Due to different sowing periods, there are spring wheat, winter wheat, etc. Wheat is an important cultivated cereal in the genus Triticum of the Gramineae family. It is an annual or perennial herb; the stem has 4 to 7 nodes, and the number of effective tillers is related to the soil and fertilizer environment. The leaves are long linear; the spikes are upright, and the cob is continuous without breaking; the spikelets are solitary, containing 3 to 5 (~9) flowers, and the upper flowers are sterile; self-pollinating; the glume is leathery, oval to oblong. Shape, with 5 to 9 veins; ridge on the back; lemma boat-shaped, with no basal plate at the base. Its shape, color, hair and awn length vary with the variety. The caryopsis is large, oblong, with hairs on the top, and a deep longitudinal groove on the ventral surface. It is not adhered to the palea and easily falls off.

Wheat Wheat is one of the main grains in my country. It contains starch, protein, sugar, fat, vitamin B, lecithin, arginine and a variety of enzymes. Not only does it have extremely high nutritional value, but wheat seedlings, malt, wheat bran, and wheat seeds can all be used as medicine. As early as 1,700 years ago, Chinese medical sage Zhang Zhongjing created the famous prescription "Licorice, Wheat, and Jujube Decoction." This shows that wheat has a long history of being used to treat diseases.