常用谷物类中药功用探析

Explore function of commonly used cereal herbs

谷物与人脾胃之性相合,多种谷物种子可以直接用作中药,最常用的是豆科植物与禾本科植物的种子,其功效常与脾胃有关。谷物的种子是闭藏与生发的结合体,通过谷物发芽和进行发酵两种炮制方法,体现其生发之性。常用的谷物类中药有白扁豆、赤小豆、绿豆、粳米、浮小麦、大豆黄卷、淡豆豉、酒、醋等。这些谷物类药物可按种子直接入药,或发芽后入药,或发酵后入药。

The cereals have correlation with human spleen and stomach, and can be used as Chinese traditional medicine for the treatment of diseases; there are many clinical application of cereal drugs, thus physicians like to use them. Most cereals can be used as drugs directly such as seeds of the leguminous plants and grasses, which function in regulating spleen and stomach. The seeds of grain are combinations of hide and germinal, which can be germinated and fermented to present the germination. In this paper, the author lists several commonly used cereal herbs such as white lentils, rice bean, mung bean, japonica rice, wheat, soybeans, semen sojae germinatum, wine and vinegar. These drugs may according to the seed medicine directly, for medicine after germination or for medicine after fermentation.