Poria
AKA: Poria cocos one, Poria skin, Poria lumps.
Taste: sweet, light, flat.
Meridian: to the heart, lung, spleen, kidney meridian.
Ingredients: dried fungal nuclei.
Morphological features: spherical, ellipsoid, oblate or irregular mass, varying in size. The outer skin is thin and rough, brown to dark brown, with obvious wrinkled texture. Weight, solid texture, granular section, some with fissures, the outer layer of light brown, the inner white, a few light red, some of the center holding a pine root. Odorless, tasteless, chewing sticky teeth.
Poria usage
Dosage: 10-15g.
Concoction: take Poria cocos, soaked, washed, moistened and steamed a little bit, peeled off the outer skin in time, cut into cubes or cut into thick slices, and dried in the sun.
Efficacy of Poria
Functions: diuresis and seepage of dampness, strengthening the spleen, tranquilize the heart.
Indications: Used for edema and urinary deficiency, phlegm, palpitations, deficiency of spleen with little food, loose stools and diarrhea, restlessness of the heart and mind, palpitations and insomnia.
Effects: 1, lowering blood sugar
Poria can lower blood sugar, for people with high blood sugar, Poria has a certain gastric cancer, liver cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, tongue cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, ulcerative melanoma and other cancers in the cancer belonging to the spleen deficiency and dampness, phlegm and drinks within the stoppage of dampness and heat congestion.
5, replenish qi and strengthen the spleen
According to Chinese medicine, Poria can be used for diarrhea of spleen deficiency. Poria can strengthen the spleen, but also can seep dampness, for the spleen deficiency dysfunction caused by diarrhea, bandage, the application of Poria has the effect of both symptoms and root cause, often with Codonopsis, atractylodes macrocephala, Chinese yam and so on. It can also be used to supplement the lungs and spleen, treating qi deficiency of auxiliary drugs.
6, on the blood system
Poria can make the white blood cell reduction accelerated recovery, can make the isolated healthy human red blood cells rise about 25%, and can effectively delay the depletion of blood cells in the process of warming. Experiments show that Poria can make mice plasma corticosterone significantly higher.
7, diuretic effect
Poria is used for urinary incontinence, edema and other conditions. Poria functions as a diuretic and seepage of dampness, and the nature of the drug is calm, diuretic without harming the positive qi, as a diuretic and seepage of dampness for the important medicine. Where urination is unfavorable, water-dampness stagnation symptoms, regardless of bias in cold-dampness, or bias in dampness-heat, or belonging to the spleen deficiency and dampness, can be used in conjunction with the application. If the cold and damp, with gui zhi, atractylodes, etc.; biased in the damp and hot, with poria, ze diarrhea, etc.; belonging to the spleen qi deficiency, with ginseng, Huang Jie, atractylodes, etc.; is cold, but also with the seeds, atractylodes, and so on with the same.
8, antimicrobial effect
Poria cocos 100% decoction with plate hole method of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Escherichia contortus, etc. have inhibitory effect.
9, effects on the digestive system
Poria has a direct relaxation effect on isolated intestinal tubes of rabbits, and has a preventive effect on ulcers formed by pyloric ligation in rats, and can lower gastric acid. In addition, it has obvious protective effect on liver injury caused by CCl4 in rats, which significantly reduces the activity of ghrelin and prevents necrosis of hepatocytes.
10, on the central nervous system
Poria cocos decoction has a sedative effect. Synergistic effect of Poria and sodium pentobarbital. Poria cocos decoction (10g/kg) failed to significantly prolong anesthesia with sodium pentobarbital; with a dose of 40g/kg it resulted in a more significant prolongation of anesthesia compared with the control group, and the sedation index increased as the dose was increased. This synergistic effect may be due to their central inhibitory effect, or it may be that the prolongation of anesthesia is caused by impeding the breakdown and excretion of pentobarbital.
11, the treatment of phlegm
Poria is used for phlegm cough, phlegm dampness into the complex, shoulder and back pain. Poria has a therapeutic effect on the deficiency of the spleen, which cannot transport water-dampness and stops the accumulation of phlegm and drink. It can be used with Semixia and Chenpi, or with Gui Zhi and Atractylodis Macrocephalae. It can also be used with Gui Zhi and Bai Zhu. For the treatment of phlegm-dampness, shoulder pain and back pain, it can be used with Pinellia and Citrus aurantium.
1, Yin deficiency fire, dry mouth and throat should not be used.
2, elderly kidney deficiency, excessive urination, urinary frequency spermatorrhea should not be used.
1, leakage of semen white turbidity: snow white salt one or two (and build a tight solid Ji, one day, out of the fire poison), white poria, yam each one or two. For the end, jujube meat and honey pills sycamore size. Every jujube soup under thirty pills. Gai Gan to Ji Xian, the spleen and kidney two also get. ("Direct Directions")
2, post-eclampsia swelling: pediatric eclampsia after remission, blood and gas on the virtual, hot in the skin, body and face are swollen. Prosperity, sunflower seeds, gentian, poria, ex Hu, etc., for the end. One cent per serving, boiled in water. ("Sheng Ji General Records")
3, kidney deficiency white cloud: Cistanchus, deer antler, yam, white Poria, etc., as a mince, rice paste pills sycamore size, each jujube soup under thirty pills. ("General Records of the Shengji")
Poria's accompanying prescription1. Treatment of sun disease, after sweating, sweating, dry stomach, agitation and sleeplessness, floating pulse, urination is not conducive to thirst: poria eighteen baht (peeled), zedoary one or two six baht, atractylodes eighteen baht, poria eighteen baht, gui zhi half two (peeled). The above five flavors, pounded into powder. Take a square inch dagger of white drink and take it three times a day. ("Typhoid Fever" Wuling San)
2. Treatment of urination, slippery number of incontinence: white Poria (remove the black skin), dry yam (peeled, alum water within the Cham over, slow-roasted dry). On the two flavors, each equal parts, for fine powder. Dilute rice drink mixing service. ("Ru Men Matters Relating to")
3. Treatment of edema: white water (net) two money, Poria three money, Yu Li Ren (pestle and mortar) one money and five minutes. Add ginger juice decoction. ("I do not know the medical necessity" Poria soup)
4. Treatment of skin water, swelling of the limbs, water in the skin, the limbs Nie Nie move: Fangji three two, Huang Jie three two, cinnamon sticks three two, Poria six two, licorice two two. The above five flavors, with six liters of water, boiled to take two liters, divided into warm three services. ("The Golden Chamber" Poria cocos soup)
5. Treatment of phlegm under the heart, chest support fullness and dizziness: Poria four taels, cinnamon sticks, atractylodes macrocephala three taels, licorice two taels. The above four flavors, with six liters of water, boiled three liters, divided into warm three services, urination is li. ("The Golden Chamber" Ling Gui Jiu Gan Tang)
6. Treatment of stroke vomiting, plaque under the heart, diaphragm water, vertigo palpitations: half a liter of Xia, ginger half a catty, Poria three taels (a method of four taels). The above three flavors, with seven liters of water to boil a liter of five, divided into warm and then served, ("Golden Chamber Essentials" small half-summer plus Poria soup)
7. treatment of supper leakage holes more than: Poria - two, half a two (paper wrapped shelling). The above two flavors, for the fine powder, decoction of perilla papaya soup under the two money dagger. ("Hundred a prescription")
8. Treatment of wet diarrhea: Atractylodes macrocephala one or two, Poria cocos (peeled) seven and a half money. On the fine cut, water decoction of one or two, before eating. ("original disease style" was Ling Tang)
9. Treatment of stomach vomiting and thirst, want to drink water: Poria half a catty, Zedo four two, licorice two two, Gui Zhi two two, atractylodes three two, ginger four two. On the six flavors, a bucket of water, boiled to take three liters of water, and Zelda and then boiled to take two and a half liters of water, warm service eight, three services a day ("Jin Gui Yao Liao" Poria Zelda Soup)
10. treatment of the husband's yuan yang is weak and exhausted, the essence of the gas is not solid, the remaining leach is often streaming, urination, white turbid, dreaming frequent ejaculation, and the women's sea of blood for a long time, cold, leucorrhea, white leakage, white lust, the lower part of the often wet, urination, such as rice swill, or no interest (infertility): four two of the wax, four two of the white Poria (peeled, for blocks, with a poria a point, with a porcelain vessel boiled more than twenty boils, out, dry, without poria). On the poria for the end, melting yellow wax for the pill, such as a bullet big. Chew carefully in the heart, full of saliva, slowly swallowed, to the extent that the urine is clear. ("Bureau Square" Weixi pill)
11. Treatment of heart deficiency dream leakage, or white turbidity: Poria cocos powder two money. Rice soup, two times a day. (Ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Zhi Fang)
12. Treatment of heart sweat, no sweat elsewhere, only a piece of the heart hole sweat, thinking more sweat is also more, the disease is in the heart, it is advisable to nourish the heart and blood: Ai soup mixing Poria powder to be served. ("Certificate for the treatment of secret")
13. Treatment of lower deficiency thirst, on the fullness of the lower virtual, heart fire inflammation flickering, kidney water drying, can not be handed over to become thirsty: white poria a catty, Huanglian a catty. For the end, boiled smallpox powder as a paste, pill sycamore size. Fifty pills per warm soup. (Deshengtang experience formula)
14. Treatment of head wind and dizziness, warming the waist and knees, the main five labor and seven injuries: Poria powder with the curved rice brewing drink. (Compendium of Poria wine)
1, "Compendium of Materia Medica": Poria odor light and seepage, the nature of its upward, the birth of fluid, open the coupling, nourish the water source and descent, and facilitate urination, so Zhang Jiegu said that it belongs to the yang, floating and ascending, the words of its nature; Dongguan said that it is the yin in the yang, descending and descending, the words of its work.
2, "Diffraction of Materia Medica": Poria, Poria, the function of water, beneficial to the heart and spleen can not be queued.
3, "Materia Medica is": can benefit the orifices to go wet, benefit the orifices is happy and wise, guide turbidity and generate fluids; to go wet, the water dry spleen, tonic stomach; to expel eclampsia, thick intestinal organs, the treatment of phlegm, to help the medicine of the descent. To its flavor has a slightly sweet, so it is said to complement the Yang. But the complementary less favorable.