Buckwheat is also known as triangular wheat, in Eastern Europe, people will be buckwheat shell, such as rice general cooking, known as buckwheat Rice, in France known as Sayraisin. Buckwheat powder is not suitable for making bread, but in the United States and Canada, buckwheat flour alone or mixed with wheat flour with baking cake, called buckwheat cake. Buckwheat taste gan, slightly sour, sexual cold; spleen, stomach, colon meridian. JIANPI accumulation; gas-wide intestine; detoxification and sores. Main gastrointestinal hysteresis

荞麦又称为三角麦，在东欧，人们将荞麦去壳，如稻米一般煮食，称为荞麦饭，在法国则称为sayraisin。荞麦粉不宜於做面包，但在美国及加拿大，荞麦粉单独或与小麦粉混合用制烤饼，称荞麦饼。荞麦味甘、微酸，性寒；归脾、胃、大肠经。健脾消积；下气宽肠；解毒敛疮。主肠胃积滞