A daily acquaintance with a Chinese medicine - Poria.

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How to choose Poria.

True; section: with concavity. Crack: with cracks. Color: slightly with yellowish brown. Taste: no odor.

False; section: smooth. Cracks: no cracks. Color: pure white in color. Taste: pungent flavor.

Poria selection.

See: tiny honeycomb-like holes, white inside, a few light red.

Smell: gas faint, light flavor, chewing sticky teeth.

Taste: sweet, slightly bitter, flat.

White Poria's outer skin color slightly yellow, the interior is whitish Poria smell is very light, if there is a pungent smell is likely to be smoked with sulfur. How to eat Poria: Poria barley porridge, Poria cake, Poria rib soup. Poria is commonly used with: red beans, gravy, lotus seeds.

Notes.

1. Poria diuretic effect is very significant: taking too much Poria will lead to increased urination times. Especially some people who are physically weak, once taking Poria in excess, it will harm the vital energy, and at the same time, the number of times you get up at night to urinate will increase, resulting in poorer quality of sleep, which is very harmful to the body.

2. Kidney deficiency patients are not suitable for taking Poria: the kidney deficiency patients have frequent urination symptoms, Poria diuretic, will make the kidney deficiency patients urinary frequency and urgency of the situation is more serious, and even slippery semen. The elderly, especially some of the kidney deficiency of the elderly, should avoid taking Poria.

3. Dry throat people do not take Poria: Poria helps the body diuretic dampness, accelerate the loss of water in the body, dry throat patients taking Poria will aggravate the symptoms of dehydration.

4. Poria can not be eaten with rice vinegar, strong tea and so on: it will affect the efficacy of the medicine, serious abdominal pain, bronchial asthma and skin redness and swelling and other symptoms of toxic allergies.