---
title: "Fu Xiao Mai"
url: "https://books.drcassone.com/21/traditional-medicines-of-east-asia/476/fu-xiao-mai"
---

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# Fu Xiao Mai

### Tritici Fructus Levis

_sweet, slightly salty, cool_

#### PRIMARY FUNCTION:

_**Stabilize and Bind**_

CLASSICAL MANIFESTATIONS:
- Hyperhidrosis
 - Spontaneous
 - Night time
- Anxiety

Fu Xiao Mai enters the heart and has a calming effect on the shen.
It is used in the formula Gan Mai Da Zao Tang for patients with
restless organ disorder (patient presents with high anxiety). This
herb also has a stabilizing function for patterns of excess
sweating.

**Channels:** heart

COMMON APPLICATIONS AND CLINICAL
POSSIBILITIES:
- Anxiety
- Palpitations
- Menopausal symptoms
 - deficiency heat
- Insomnia
- Excess sweating

**Formulas:**
- Mu Li San
- Gan Mai Da Zao Tang

**Contraindications:** do not prescribe Fu Xiao Mai to patients
that are sweating due to an external attack where the exterior
must be released instead of stabilized

**Zoo Image:** a sweaty camel with a leaking heart hat made pizza with heart
shaped pepperoni

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