There are many types of botanicals in traditional Chinese medicine, such as the more common herbaceous ones, and some of the tall trees that can only be seen in the mountains and forests, and of course there are also some that we eat in our daily lives, such as some vegetables, such as some of the grains and so on, and the rice buds are. So, what are the medicinal effects of rice shoots in general?

The Chinese medicine name rice bud daoya

Alias grain bud.

English name OryzaeFructusGerminatus.

SourceThe mature fruits of OryzasativaL.

Plant Form Annual. Culms erect, tufted; hollow, nodding, tillering. Leaves with leaf sheaths, ligule membranous and stiff, lanceolate, base decurrent on both sides to merge with leaf sheath margins, auricles conspicuous when young; leaf blades lanceolate to striped-lanceolate, scabrous, veins conspicuous. Panicle lax, recurved downward at maturity, branches angular, spikelets oblong; sterile lemma awl-spinelike; fertile lemma stiffly papery, 5-veined; palea 3-veined; stamens 6, filaments weak; ovary oblong, smooth, style 2, stigma feathery. Caryopsis smooth, yellowish, white; seeds with conspicuous linear hilum. Flowering and fruiting in summer and fall.

Origin and Distribution: Produced all over the country.

Harvesting and processing of ripe cut off the grain rice, threshing, drying, that is, rice. Take the rice soaked in water for 1 ~ 2 days, fish out and put in a container, covered with a moist bag, daily water, keep wet, to the root length of 3 ~ 7 mm when taken out of the sun, that is, the birth of grain buds. Stir-fry with the fire until dark yellow and most of the burst, remove and cool, that is, fried buds. Stir-fry with a fire until burnt yellow, slightly sprayed with water, remove and air-dry, that is, burnt grain buds.

The properties of the herb are slightly flattened long oval, slightly pointed at both ends, 7-9 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, lemmas hard, surface yellow, with short fine hairs, with 5 veins. One end with 2 symmetrical white bar-shaped paddles, ca. 2 mm, yellowish, membranous, extending yellowish curved primordia on the inner side of one paddle, 0.5-1.2 cm long. The palea is thinly membranous, smooth, yellowish-white, containing the fruit, firm, white in section, powdery. The odor is absent, and the taste is slightly sweet.

The sex and flavor are warm and sweet. Attributes to the spleen and stomach meridians.

Effects and Uses: Harmonizes the middle and eliminates food, strengthens the spleen and opens the stomach. It is an antiphlogistic drug.

Clinical application dosage of 9 to 15 grams; large doses of 30 grams. It is used for treating food stagnation, epigastric distension and fullness caused by starchy foods such as rice, noodles, potatoes and taro, or deficiency of the spleen with little food.

The β-amylase contained in pharmacological research can completely hydrolyze the sugar starch into maltose, and α-amylase can make it decompose into short straight-chain condensed glucose, but the amount of α- and β-amylase contained in this product is small, and its function of digesting starch is not as good as that of malt, and the amylase contained in this product can help digestion. Experiments have shown that gluten malt can have anti-allergic activity by inhibiting histamine release from mast cells.

Chemical composition contains starch, amylase, protein, fat and other ingredients. And contains aspartic acid, r. Aminobutyric acid and other 18 kinds of amino acids. The amylase contained has the effect of digesting starch.

The contraindications for use are not clear.

Remedies

①Enlighten the spleen and eat: 120 grams of grain buds, for the end, into the ginger juice, salt, and a little bit, and for the cake, baked. Into the roasted licorice, sand nuts, atractylodes macrocephala (bran fried) 30 grams each. Take the powder in white soup, or take it by pill. ("Tanya Liu set prescription" Valley God pill)

② treatment of pediatric dyspepsia, yellow muscle thinning: 9 grams of grain buds, licorice 3 grams, 3 grams of sand nuts, atractylodes macrocephala 6 grams. Water decoction. ("Qingdao Chinese herbal medicine manual")

③ treatment of dietary stagnation, chest congestion and distension: 12 grams of grain buds, hawthorn 6 grams, 9 grams of Chenpi, 6 grams of red currant. Water decoction. ("Qingdao Chinese herbal medicine manual")

Specific effects

(1) anti-cancer anti-cancer

Rice buds have yellow cardiac tannin alkaloids, this ingredient for the prevention of cancer is particularly good, rice buds can also repair the human body's five viscera, regulating the bloodstream, rice buds, this nourishing the internal organs of the efficacy of the effect of the role of preventing thrombosis, to help solve the cardiovascular that is that the problem.

(2) clear heat and fire

Rice buds can clear fire and disinfection, rice buds in the lotus heart is the most can reduce fire and clear heat, in the summer for the more prone to fire is very suitable for the people, eat rice buds can also help to restore the fairness of the skin, if there are dark circles, freckles on the skin spots and other problems can be improved by eating some rice buds. Of course, note that the nutrition of rice sprouts is relatively easy to decompose, so do not need to stew for too long.

(3) Reduce blood pressure

The alkaloids in rice sprouts can help lower blood pressure, alkaloids can also regulate high blood pressure, and strengthen the heart, the heart becomes stronger and more powerful, and heart rate irregularities can also be improved. Drinking more tea with rice buds can quiet your sleep and calm your spirit.