Wheat

Wheat, a grass plant, is the most widely distributed food crop in the world, and its sown area is the crown of all kinds of food crops, and it is one of the important food.

Wheat is the second largest food in the world (after corn). Wheat is generally believed to have originated in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East. Wheat can be divided into winter wheat and spring wheat, and can also be divided into hard wheat and soft wheat according to the gluten content.

Wheat is ground into flour for human food, or it can be directly fed to poultry and livestock. Wheat can also be used to make beer, but not as much as barley. There is also less seed-bearing wheat for cattle and sheep. 

Wheat is cool, sweet. Selectively targeting the heart, slpeen and kidney energy channel(we call jingluo is energy channel here).

Wheat could nourish the heart and eliminate annoyance, replenish SS(Stomach & Spleen) and KB(Kidney & Bladder) energy, clean fire toxin and stop thirst. Wheat is used for viscera, restlessness, thirst, dysentery, carbuncle, traumatic bleeding and burns, etc.

Wheat contains 53%-70% starch, 11% protein, 2%-7% sugar, 2%-10% dextrin, about 1.6% fat, about 2% crude fiber, and still contain a small amount of sitosterol, lecithin, urine Cystin, amylase and trace vitamin B, etc.

Wheat nutritional value

• Eating whole grains can reduce the content of estrogen in the blood circulation, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing breast cancer;
• For menopausal women, eating unrefined wheat can also relieve menopause syndrome;
• Wheat has high nutritional value, and the B vitamins and minerals contained in it are very beneficial to human health. 

Use of wheat

• Wheat is mainly used in my country to process flour and make various pasta, such as steamed buns, bread, dumplings, noodles, pancakes, cakes and fried foods. Choose the corresponding variety of flour according to the production of different foods, such as making steamed buns, noodles, dumplings, etc., use flour with medium and high gluten strength, certain ductility, and good color; use flour with low gluten strength for making cakes, biscuits and hot noodle products. Wheat can be eaten in a variety of colors, which is unmatched by any other grain. Wheat grains or broken wheat can be used instead of rice for cooking; cooked wheat grains can be fermented to make tempeh; wheat gluten can be used to make sodium glutamate to give food a meaty taste; wheat starch can be used to thicken soup agent, etc.;
• Wheat can also be used as a raw material for the manufacture of alcohol, starch and dextrin, wine, liquor, beer, soy sauce, and vinegar; after bacterial fermentation of wheat flour into sodium glutamate, monosodium glutamate can be extracted;
• Floating wheat is the dry, frivolous and shriveled fruit of wheat. It is sweet and cool in nature and tastes. It enters the heart meridian, beneficial to qi and heat, nourishes the heart and promotes body fluid, relieves sweating, night sweats, and bone steaming. It can treat deficiency heat, hyperhidrosis, Night sweats, dry mouth, upset and insomnia;
• Workers in a French bakery found that no matter how old they were, the skin on their hands was neither sagging nor age spots, because they kneaded wheat flour every day.

Who can eat wheat

Everyone can eat, especially:

• It is suitable for insomnia, dreaminess, palpitations, yawning, joy, sorrow, and crying due to lack of hard work. It is also suitable for women who are hysteria, and it is also suitable for women when they are breastfeeding;
• Those who suffer from beriberi and peripheral neuritis should eat wheat; those who are physically weak, spontaneous sweating, night sweats and hyperhidrosis should eat floating wheat.

 Wheat Food Recommendations

• Wheat can be decocted into soup, porridge, or made into pasta for daily consumption; it can also be processed into powder and applied externally to treat carbuncle, trauma and scald;
• Flour that has been stored for a longer period of time is better than freshly ground flour. There is a folk saying that "wheat eats old, rice eats new"; it is best to eat flour and rice;
• For women who are hysteria, wheat should be eaten together with jujube and licorice; for those who sweat spontaneously and night sweats, wheat should be eaten together with jujube and astragalus. The shriveled wheat floating on the water is called floating wheat, which has better antiperspirant power.