The efficacy and effects of malt

Malt flavor: sweet, flat, to the spleen meridian, stomach meridian. It mainly treats symptoms such as food stagnation, abdominal fullness and diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, lactation, breast swelling and pain, etc. Then what are the specific effects and contraindications of malt?

Promote qi and strengthen the spleen

Malt is sweet and flat, with the function of moving Qi and eliminating food, strengthening the spleen and appetite, especially good at promoting the digestion of starchy foods. As long as the treatment of rice flour, potatoes and taro diet mechanism, the stomach and abdomen fullness, often in the hawthorn, Shen Qu, chicken naijin equivalent use; treatment of children's milk food stagnation, often malt single product research powder or decoction.

Relieving breast milk and distension

Malt has the function of returning breast milk to eliminate distension, so it can be used for women weaning, breast distension and pain caused by milk stagnation and other conditions.

Relieving liver and Qi

Malva has the effect of de-stagnating the liver and relieving depression, and can be used to treat liver qi stagnation or liver and stomach disharmony, pain in the chest and abdomen, often combined with Cauliflower, Aromatic Herb, Neem and other medicines.

Digestive aid

Starch can be broken down into maltose and dextrin by the action of α and β amylase. Malt decoction seems to have a mild promotion effect on the secretion of gastric acid and pepsin. Pharmacological principle: Malt contains α and β amylase. And starch is a mixture of sugar starch and gum starch. The glucose molecules that make up sugar starch are linked by α-1,4 glycoside bonds and are arranged in straight chains. Gum starch is composed of several short straight chains of condensed glucose crossed. The branched starch molecule has α-1,6 glucoside bonds in addition to α-1,4 glucoside bonds. α and β amylases can hydrolyze α-1,4 glucoside bonds, but have no effect on α-1,6 glucoside bonds. β amylase can completely hydrolyze sugar starch into maltose, while α amylase decomposes it into short straight bond condensed glucose (i.e. dextrin), which can be hydrolyzed into maltose by β amylase.

Hypoglycemia

Malt infusion orally lowers blood glucose in rabbits and normal humans. Experiment: A 5% injection made of malt residue aqueous alcoholic precipitation concentrate product given to rabbits at 200 mg reduced blood glucose by 40% or more, mostly recovering only after 7 hours.

Anti-fungal

Malt also has an antibacterial effect due to the barley bases A and B contained in the extract of malt have a certain inhibitory effect on the fungal activity.

Milk recovery

Malt can inhibit the release of prolactin. Experiment: Raw malt decoction 100-200g/d orally can cause the peak of prolactin release to be inhibited during sleep or methotrexate test in healthy people, which may be related to the lactation-returning effect of raw malt soup in women. In patients with simple lactorrhea, it can cause lactation to disappear or be relieved, but the peak of response to methotrexate test is not inhibited, and it is not effective in amenorrhea-lactation syndrome with organic lesions of pituitary prolactinoma.

Other effects

The pharmacological effect of barley bases contained in malt is similar to that of ephedrine. 1.0 mg/kg dose can enhance the tension and movement of guinea pigs' uterus, and it increases with increasing dose. For neostigmine induced bronchospasm in cats, it can make it dilate, the effective dose is 0.5-1.0mg/kg, but the effect on normal cats is very small. There is also a protective effect against radioactivity.

Contraindications to the use of malt

1, "Drug Chemical Yi": all phlegm and fire asthma and pregnant women, do not use malt. 2, "Food Properties Materia Medica": Long-term consumption eliminates the kidneys and should not be eaten in excess. 3, "Tang Liquid Materia Medica": cardamom, shrinking sand, papaya, peony, Wu Wei Zi, Wu Mei as the make. 4, "Ben Cao Jing Shu": no stagnation, the spleen and stomach deficiency should not be used. 5, "Ben Cao Zheng": women with fetal expectation should not take more;.