Properties: Sweet, slightly astringent, cool

Meridans Entered:
Primary: Heart

1. Nourishes the Heart and calms the Spirit
   Heart Deficiency
   Visceral agitation (脏躁, Zang Zao), vexation, sadness
2. Stops excessive sweating due to Deficiency
   Spontaneous sweating due to Qi Deficiency Night sweats due to Yin Deficiency Postpartum Deficiency sweat Steaming Bones
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:

This is the same herb as Fu Xiao Mai but the full, heavy grains that sink to the bottom (without "Fu" meaning to float). Therefore it is seen as better at nourishing the Heart and calming the Shen in cases of visceral agitation, vexation and sadness. The blighted grains that float to the surface are seen as better at treating the Exterior and so used more frequently in cases of deficiency sweating.