When it comes to raw malt, you should have heard of it, and many weaning moms. But do you know the role of raw malt? Take a look together!

The role of raw malt

1, the role of raw malt

Functions:

Qi elimination, strengthen the spleen and stomach, retreating breast swelling.

Indications:

Food accumulation does not go away, epigastric distension, spleen deficiency, less food, milk sweat accumulation, breast distension and pain, women's weaning.

Application:

1.1, used in the stagnant food of rice and yam. This product can promote the digestion of starchy food. It can be used together with hawthorn, shenqiu, and jianneijin. If it is used for treating the stagnation of milk and food in children, it is effective to take this product alone by decoction or powder. It can be used with Atractylodes macrocephala and Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae if it is used in treating the deficiency of spleen and low food intake, fullness and distension after eating.

1.2, used for weaning, breast distension and pain. Use raw malt or fried malt 120g (or raw, fried malt 60g each) decoction is effective.

1.3, for epigastric, chest and hypochondriac pain. This product can also be used to relieve the liver and depression, for liver-qi stagnation or liver-stomach disharmony of dystocia, epigastric and abdominal pain, etc., can be used in conjunction with other liver and qi medicines.

2, the nutritional value of raw malt

2.1, phospholipids: malt is rich in lecithin, which has a very obvious emulsification properties, can prevent the accumulation of cholesterol in the wall of the blood vessels, and can be eliminated part of the accumulation of material, while improving the body's use of fat, so it has the function of preventing cardiovascular disease.

2.2, vitamin E: malt can block the chain reaction of free radicals contained in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Vitamin E can also promote cell activation, delay the aging of the body, have the effect of prolonging life.

2.3, antioxidant enzymes: malt contains a large number of antioxidant enzymes, which can eliminate free radicals in the body is not good for the body, to prevent the occurrence of cancer.

2.4, zinc: malt also contains a certain amount of zinc, which helps the body's immune function, repair and renewal of tissues, also helps antioxidant and anti-cancer.

3, raw malt contraindications

3.1, weak spleen and stomach, transport and digestion, resulting in the accumulation of food does not go away, it can be used with ginseng, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, in order to increase the power of the spleen to eliminate food.

3.2, can be used for liver depression and stagnation of Qi, chest distension, and the liver and spleen are not each, belching and less food and other evidence, often with citron, Buddha's hand, etc., in order to increase the effect of soothing the liver and stomach.

3.3, raw malt and fried malt have the role of milk, but the former should be decoction, the latter should be pounded for bulk service. If the efficacy, when the raw malt is better.

How to drink raw malt

Malt decoction, 10 to 15g, back to the milk fried with 60g. raw malt spleen and stomach, liver and qi. It can be used in the case of spleen deficiency and low food intake, as well as in the case of breast milk stagnation. Fried malt is used to regain breast milk by promoting circulation of Qi and eliminating food. It is used for women with food stagnation and weaning off breastmilk. Jiao mai bud eliminates food and stagnation. Used for food accumulation does not go away, epigastric distension and pain.

Raw malt is used for weaning and milk stasis caused by breast distension and pain and other conditions. Whenever a woman wants to wean during breastfeeding, 30 grams of raw malt can be used in a decoction. For the treatment of milk stagnation, the usual amount of 10-30 grams of decoction is used. For the treatment of breast distension and pain, 60 grams of raw malt can be decocted with water. However, women should not be taken during lactation, so as not to cause milk reduction.

The difference between raw malt and fried malt

Malt is the mature fruit of the grass plant barley, germination and low-temperature drying. It is salty in taste and flat in nature, and belongs to the spleen and stomach meridian. Fried with the spleen and food and the function of the middle, raw can be used back to the breast swelling and pain. The functions of fried malt and raw malt are very different, can not be used in place of each other.

Fried malt can promote the digestion of food. In the clinic, it is used for food accumulation and distension in the epigastric region, and can be combined with hawthorn, Shenqu, Sha Ren, Jin Jin, Lai Chi Zi, fried grain buds, and so on. If the spleen and stomach are weak, and the appetite is not strong, it is suitable to be used together with the medicines to replenish qi and strengthen the spleen, such as fried atractylodes macrocephala, Codonopsis pilosulae, roasted astragalus, Poria, roasted licorice. If the symptoms of dyspepsia are mild, it can be used alone with fried malt decoction, or fried charred and finely ground, mixed with boiled water. The usual amount of 10 to 30 grams.