Malt has the effect of invigorating the spleen and opening the stomach, relieving breast milk and flatulence, and promoting the flow of qi to eliminate food. It is used for treating symptoms such as deficiency of the spleen and low food intake, accumulation of breast milk, and non-dissipation of food stagnation (the stagnation of indigested food in the stomach).
Malt is obtained by germinating and drying the mature fruit of wheat, a plant of the grass family, and has the effect of strengthening the spleen and opening the stomach, eliminating breast milk and flatulence, and promoting the flow of qi and eliminating food, with the main medicinal category of elimination of food.
Clinically, raw malt strengthens the spleen and stomach, and promotes liver circulation. It can be used for the deficiency of the spleen, low food, milk stagnation. Stir-fried malt to promote qi and eliminate food to return breast milk (so that milk is reduced or no longer secreted). It is used for women with food stagnation that does not go away and for weaning. Jiao Mai Tu (焦麦芽) is used for eliminating food stagnation and resolving stagnation. It is used for the non-dissolution of food stagnation and distension and pain in the epigastrium (abdomen).
The adverse effects and contraindications of Malt are not known. If you need to use Chinese medicine, you need to be under the identification of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, follow the doctor’s instructions to take, do not self-medication, so as not to cause discomfort.