Properties: Sweet, slightly astringent, cool

Meridans Entered:
Primary: Heart

1. Stops excessive sweating due to Deficiency
   Spontaneous sweating due to Qi Deficiency Night sweats due to Yin Deficiency Postpartum Deficiency sweat Steaming bones
2. Nourishes the Heart and calms the Spirit
   Heart Deficiency
   Visceral agitation (脏躁, Zang Zao), vexation, sadness
3. Stops bed wetting in children
   Bed wetting in children

Suggested Daily Dosage: 15-30g in decoction.

• Choline
  Parent compound of the cholines class to generate the cholinergic system of neurotransmitters, which helps to regulate memory, mood, muscle control, and required to form the membranes that surround your body's cells. Choline may be used as a supplement in the treatment of bipolar disorders with some evidence to suggest it helps manic episodes (Sylvia et al., 2013) but weak to no evidence it helps the depressive aspect (Rakofsky & Dunlop, 2014). It has also been investigated into improving the cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer's disease (Bonvicini et al., 2023) and similar vascular brain disorders (Bermejo, Dorado & Zea-Sevilla, 2023). Wheat germ is one of the highest vegetable sources of choline, at 152.08 mg / 100 g (Zeisel et al., 2003).

Notes:

Fu Xiao Mai are the grains of wheat which float to the surface in water due to not ripening sufficiently.

As wheat is the grain associated with the Heart and the floating quality of the blighted grains is associated with deficiency making it unable to ripen, it is used to treat deficiency conditions affecting the exterior, namely spontaneous sweats from Qi deficiency and night sweats from Yin deficiency.

Huai Xiao Mai, the grains that sink, are therefore better at nourishing the Heart and calming the Shen in cases of visceral agitation, vexation and sadness.