Poria

Another name: Poria

Taste: sweet, light, flat; to the heart, spleen, kidney meridian.

The key medicine of diuresis and seepage of dampness

Poria is the key medicine of diuresis and seepage of dampness, and also has the effect of strengthening the spleen and tranquilizing the heart. Shennong Ben Cao Jing recorded that Poria "king of the chest and diaphragm against the gas, facilitating urination, long service to tranquilize the spirit and soul, not hungry and prolonged life." The Materia Medica Steel Measures" recorded that Poria "treats head wind and dizziness, ambiguous waist and knees, and masters the five labors and seven injuries". Empress Dowager Cixi at the end of the Qing Dynasty, although you can enjoy a variety of delicacies, but still especially like "Poria cake", and reward ministers, and thus Poria cake has become one of the famous points of the capital in the late Qing Dynasty. Modern pharmacological research shows that Poria also has the role of enhancing immunity, anti-tumor, antibacterial, hypoglycemic, hepatoprotective, anti-gastric ulcer and so on.

Poria mini-file

Poria is mainly produced in Yunnan, Hubei, Anhui, Sichuan, Henan and other places. It is a fungus belonging to the family of Polyporaceae, born in gravelly soil, sunny slopes, pine plants between the roots, now mostly cultivated. Poria medicinal parts for the kernel, more parasitic in commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, for the fungus Poria porous mycorrhizal dry kernel, more in July to September digging, remove sediment, pile up the "sweat", spread out to dry the surface, and then "sweat", repeated a few times to the appearance of wrinkles, Most of the internal moisture is dissipated, dried in the shade. Modern research has found that Poria contains Poria acid, ergosterol, choline, lecithin, potassium salts.

Effects and Indications

Effective in inducing diuresis and seepage of dampness, strengthening the spleen and tranquilizing the heart.

It is used in treating 1. urinary incontinence, edema and urinary incontinence, phlegm and dizziness, etc. 2. tiredness and weakness caused by spleen deficiency, loss of appetite, loose stools and diarrhea, etc. 3. restlessness of the heart and mind and insomnia.

Identification

Genuine Poria block is block and slice, the edge is neat, white, a few light red or light brown, solid, granular cross-section, some with fissures, chewing the sticky teeth.

Inferior quality Poria block was irregular block flaky, gray-white surface, a few slightly yellowish, rough, with a foreign body off the concave point, the edge of the crippled, hard and can be fractured, cross-section granularity, the surface and the fracture surface can be seen in gray-black dots and yellowish-white coarse sand scattered, chewing the sticky teeth, and sand top teeth.

Take Poria block, poor quality Poria block each 15 grams, research powder, respectively, placed in a beaker with 200 ml of water, stirring, precipitation, remove the upper layer of powder can be seen at the bottom of the Poria powder cup without sand, poor quality Poria powder cup at the bottom of the gray-black and yellow-white sand.

Precautions

Persons with yin deficiency and damp-heat, deficiency cold and slippery semen or qi deficiency and subsidence should be cautious.