[Medicine] is the mycelium of the plant Poria cocos (Schw.) Wolf of the family Poraceae, and is mostly parasitized on the roots of horsetail pine or red pine. Produced in Yunnan, Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang, Henan, Sichuan and other places.
Digging in the fall and spring, cultivated products are generally three years after inoculation. Wash, hot grass, layer by layer stacked, the top cover with a thick sack, so that it sweats, precipitation of water, remove, wipe away the water droplets, spread in the shade, to be dry on the surface and then sweating, and so on for 3 to 4 times to the surface wrinkles, the skin color becomes brown, and then set in the shade to dry to half dry, branch cutting, shade drying, raw.
Poria bark: Poria mushroom kernel of the outer skin, function of edema.
Red Poria: the light red part after peeling off the outer skin, function of seepage of dampness and heat.
White Poria: the white part after cutting off the red Poria, also known as Poria, cut into small cubes, function of seepage of dampness and strengthening the spleen.
Poria: Poria cocos center holding a fine pine root, cut into square slices, function of tranquilizing the mind and tranquilizing the spirit.
[Pharmacochemical] Containing B-Poria glycosides, Poria acid, lecithin and sterols.
[Pharmacology] 1: diuretic effect
Poria diuretic mechanism is unknown, and the compound is more pronounced than the role of single drug.
2: Sedative effect
Poria decoction is injected intraperitoneally into mice, which can inhibit spontaneous activity and counteract caffeine-induced hyperexcitability in mice, and has a synergistic effect on anesthesia with barbiturates.
3: Cardiovascular system
Ethanol extract strengthens myocardial contractility and increases heart rate.
4: Digestive system
Poria cocos has a significant protective effect on liver injury induced by carbon tetrachloride in mice.
5: Anti-tumor effects
Poria polysaccharide has an inhibitory effect on mouse sarcoma, and its effect is related to the thymus, which can activate local complement.
(1) It has anticancer activity in vivo and can promote the immune function of human body; the inhibitory efficiency of Poria polysaccharide contained in it on sarcoma S-180 can reach 96.88%.
(2) The extract of Poria cocos has diuretic effect on normal rabbits by intraperitoneal injection; the extract of ether or ethanol can make the contraction of isolated frog heart strengthened, and the blood sugar of rabbits is firstly made to be elevated and then lowered.
(3) The decoction of Poria has sedative effect on mice, and the sedative effect of Poria is second to that of Poria.
[Properties] It is sweet, light, flat, and belongs to lung, stomach and kidney meridians.
[Efficacy] It is used to expel toxins and fight against cancer, promote diuresis, strengthen the spleen and tranquilize the heart. 9 grams each of tortoiseshell powder and aloe vera, 6 grams each of radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, 3 grams each of vermillion, amber and licorice, 30 grams each of oyster and yu yu grain, taken with water in a decoction, 1 dose per day. After 1 week of continuous service, take the following: 30 grams each of Semen Aesculi and Kukkiu, decoction with water, 1 dose per day. After 1 week of continuous intake, take the upper dose again. Take the above dose again after 1 week of continuous intake, and then change the dose of the upper part until the basic symptoms such as phlegm asthma and chest pain are relieved and the shadow disappears in X-ray examination. Stomach Cancer Poria cocos, Longjing, Semen Aesculi 15g each, Red Ginseng, Atractylodes Macrocephala, Astragalus 9g each, Hordeum Vulgare 6g each, Dried Ginger, Cloves, Roasted Glycyrrhiza Glutinosa 3g each. Take with water for 1 dose per day. Symptoms such as swollen face and feet, abdominal distension and loose stools can be gradually improved, and diet can be improved. Esophageal Cancer Poria Cocos 45g, Ochre. Poria Cocos Wolf 45g, Ochre. 30g each of Semenxia Qing, Gymnema Sylvestre Root, 18g each of Sophora, Olive, 15g each of Citrus Aurantium, 9g each of Tangerine Red, Ginger, 3g each of Borax Decocted with water twice in the morning and in the evening, 1 dose per day. Continuing to take it can reduce the symptomatic facets, improve the diet, and the cancerous foci are reduced in size in the X-ray review. Liver Cancer: Poria Cocos, Longjing 45g each, Bai Ying, Semen Ziziphi 15g each, Bai Shao, Dampi 9g each, Xuan Shen 6g, Decoction with water 2 times, to be taken separately. It can cause gradual disappearance of self-conscious symptoms and reduction of liver to normal range. Isotope scanning of the radiologic area shows uniform distribution. Lymphosarcoma Poria cocos, Salvia miltiorrhiza, raw oyster 30 g each, turtle shell 15 g, tulip gold, Citrus aurantium, Atractylodes macrocephala, Chai Hu, safflower, Wu Ling Ling Ling, Chicken Nai Jin, white peony 9 g each, Mucuna pruriens, Sand nut 6 g each, licorice 4.5 g, decoction with water. It can relieve symptoms and after 3 months there are tablets showing shrinkage of lymph nodes. Cervical Cancer Poria Cocos, Semen Ziziphiroxylon, Shu Yang Quan 30 g each, Chinese Yam, Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata 15 g each, Zhi Mu, Cortex Phellodendron Bidentata, Ze Xie Di Di each 9 g each, Mudan Pericarp 6 g each, Red Date 10 g each. Decocted with water and taken. It can reduce leucorrhea, frequent urination, lumbar completion and other symptoms, and disappearance of focal lesions in the locus coeruleus. Uterine fibroids Poria cocos, cinnamon sticks, angelica, moutanpi 180 grams each, peach kernel, red peony, seaweed, oyster, turtle shells 120 grams each, safflower 75 grams, trigonelline, curcuma longa, frankincense, myrrh 60 grams each * * * * research and finely powdered, honey and for cinnamon sticks and Poria cocos pills, the weight of the pill is 9 grams, 1 pill per dose, 3 times a day, warm water, continue to take the drug for 1 year, will make the menstruation normal, disappearance of the leiomyosarcoma. Leukemia: Poria cocos, 15 grams each of Xijushu root bark, 9 grams each of Bai Hua Dan, Bai Hua Snake Tongue Grass, Verbena officinalis, and Kwai Shu Zi, decocted with water. Can make the symptoms get complete or partial relief, prolong the survival period, suitable for acute types.
(2) Promoting water retention and resolving water-dampness and phlegm-drinking: treating water-dampness retention Poria cocos is 30 grams, Atractylodes macrocephala is 15 grams, Poria corylus, Atractylodis lanceolata, papaya is 12 grams each, Betel nut, Siberian cherry, Zelda zeylanica, mulberry white bark, Chenpi is 9 grams each, ginseng, Radix et rhizoma Glycyrrhizae is 3 grams each, and the herb Ginseng is 3 grams each, and the herb Glycyrrhiza erythrorhizonts is taken with water. Poria, Codonopsis, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae 60g each, Semen Armeniacae, Malt, Hawthorn, Chinese Yam, Semen Cassiae, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Nutmeg Cream 30g each, Mullein, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae 22g each, *** Research finely ground, flooded with water to strengthen the spleen pills, 9g per serving, 2 servings per day, warm boiled water. Heart and Spirit Loss Poria 9 grams, 15 grams of sour jujube kernel, 6 grams of motherwort, 4.5 grams of chuanxiong, 3 grams of licorice Decoction with water for sour jujube kernel soup. It is also suitable for symptoms such as deficiency annoyance and insomnia, palpitation and dizziness.
[Dosage] Decoction: 3~45g. Pills: 3.18~9 grams
Clinical application
1: used for urinary incontinence, edema, etc. Poria function of water seepage and dampness, and the nature of the drug is calm, water without harming the positive qi, for the water seepage and dampness of 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 it is cold and damp, it can be combined with Gui Zhi and Bai Zhu; if it is damp and hot, it can be combined with Poria, Ze Xie, etc. If it belongs to the deficiency of spleen qi, it can be combined with Dang Shen, Huang Jie, Bai Zhu, etc. If it is cold and cold, it can also be combined with Pseudostemonopsis and Bai Zhu.
2: used for diarrhea, diarrhea with spleen deficiency, Poria can strengthen the spleen, but also seepage of dampness, for the spleen deficiency and transportation disorder caused by diarrhea, diarrhea, with the application of Poria has the effect of both the symptoms and the root cause, often used in conjunction with Dangshen, Atractylodes macrocephala, Chinese yam, etc. Poria is also used for the treatment of lungs and spleen. Poria can be used to tonify the lungs and spleen, treating the deficiency of qi as a complementary medicine.
3: for phlegm cough, phlegm dampness into the complex, shoulder and back pain Poria can both diuresis and seepage of dampness, but also with the role of the spleen, for the spleen can not be transported to the water and dampness, the stopping of phlegm and drink of the disease, has a therapeutic effect. It can be used with half-summer and Chen Pi, or with Gui Zhi and Bai Zhu. For the treatment of phlegm-dampness, shoulder pain and back pain, it can be used with half-summer and Citrus aurantium.
4: for palpitations, insomnia and other conditions Poria can nourish the heart and tranquilize the mind, so it can be used for restlessness, palpitations, insomnia and other disorders, often with ginseng, Yuanzhi, jujube nut and so on.
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Whenever Poria is used, its purpose is to supplement not to drain, the role of Poria is to drain not to supplement. The role of Poria is to drain, not to tonify. Wherever the gas comes, the water is also everywhere; wherever the gas stops, the water is also no more than that, and it is good for the water so that it can move its gas. Poria can calm the heart, benefit the spleen and tonify the kidneys, in order to line the tangible water, cloth invisible gas also.
The water is used to move the qi, to start the yin from the yang, and the yang is used to transform the yin, so that the clear and the turbid can be born and the turbid can be lowered, the outward and the downward, and the heart, the spleen and the kidneys can be replenished.
Poria is light and seepage, sweet and tonic, can be diarrhea can be supplemented, the two have the right medicine. Water and dampness in order to cure edema and urinary incontinence, phlegm to cure cough, cough, phlegm and dampness into the syndrome, strengthen the spleen and stomach can stop diarrhea and stop bandages, ning the mind to cure palpitations and insomnia. The nature of the medicine is calm, no harm to the evils of the positive energy, in order to support the positive, but also to get rid of the evil, so the spleen is weak and wet, the positive deficiency of the evil is particularly suitable for the disease.
Shi Shuizai medical book has a cloud: "Poria a flavor for the treatment of phlegm main medicine. The root of phlegm, water, Poria can facilitate water; phlegm movement, wet also, Poria has feasible wet. It is not unreasonable to think that the function of transforming phlegm is actually related to diuresis and seepage of dampness. However, the water-inducing and dampness-expelling products are not all capable of transforming phlegm, and the use of Poria is also special.
Poria cake
Poria cake, also known as Poria cake, is a kind of Beijing's traditional nourishing snacks, and this cake when the push of Taoxiangcun best. The production of Poria cream and refined white flour into a thin cake, sandwiched in the middle of honey, sugar boiling dissolved in uniform candied pine nuts crushed kernels, the shape of the full moon, as thin as paper, white as snow, precious sweet, unique flavor.
On the Poria cake system of food law, as early as 800 years ago in the Southern Song Dynasty "Ru Men Matters" has recorded: "Poria four two, two white flour, water for cakes, to yellow wax fried." But this wax fried cake is not delicious. In the early Qing Dynasty, some people put forward the idea of "the cake is more important than the pine, the cake is good for thin", so the cake is getting thinner and thinner.
Qianlong Kong Fan-tai home made in Shandong cake "thin as a cicada wing, soft and creamy". There are also "Qin people make small tin cans containing 30 cakes, called 'Western cake'" is also very thin. Then, people are not satisfied with its light and tasteless, and then added with a variety of nuts, cinnamon and honey modulation of sweet fillings, that is, with two cakes together, the middle of the filling Poria cake. This Poria both cinnamon aroma, but also nutritious, and has a tranquil and beneficial to the spleen and other nourishing effect.
According to legend, once the Empress Dowager Cixi got sick, do not want to eat, the chefs racked their brains, selected a few taste of the spleen and appetizing traditional Chinese medicine, found that one of the production in the cloud and Guizhou area of the Poria, sweet taste and sex flat, and beneficial to the spleen and tranquilize the mind, diuresis and seepage of dampness effect. So, to pine nuts, peach kernels, cinnamon, honey as the main ingredient, with the right amount of Poria powder, and then use the best starch branded into the outer skin, fine work made of sandwich pancakes. Cixi ate, very satisfied. And often this cake reward ministers in the palace. Therefore, Poria cake is more valuable, became a famous point in the court at that time. Later, this kind of cake into the folk, become the Beijing flavor snacks.
The Poria Cake in Beijing nowadays is inherited from the traditional method handed down by the Imperial Household Cuisine of the Qing Dynasty, and is made by continuous improvement in materials and processing. That each very thin crust, like the filling of the wrapping paper, and the crust appearance of the molded pattern is clear, beautifully chic, more artistic. Thus, with its good quality and flavor, famous throughout the country.