Below is the efficacy and effects of Poria cocos and the difference between Poria cocos and Poria cocos, I hope it will help you!

Poria cocos is the mycelium of Poria cocos (Poria cocos Schw.) Wolf of the genus Poria, family Polyporaceae, the original species is a lower plant, a fungus parasitic on pine trees. The medicinal part is the white part of the dried mycelium holding the pine root in the middle. It is sweet, light and flat in flavor. It has the functions of seeping dampness, strengthening the spleen and tranquilizing the heart. It is used for phlegm, edema, dysuria, diarrhea, palpitation and dizziness. It is distributed all over the world.

Poria Cocos is a traditional Chinese medicine product of the plant Poria cocos, the original plant is mostly parasitic on the horsetail pine or segmented wood, and its growth and development can be divided into two stages: the mycelium (white filamentous material) stage and the nucleus stage. Mycelium growth stage, mainly mycelium from the surface of the wood to absorb water and nutrients, while secreting enzymes to decompose and transform the organic matter in the wood (cellulose), so that the mycelium spread in the wood to grow vigorously. The second stage is the mycelium to the middle and late agglomeration into a group, and gradually formed nuclei (also known as knots, etc.).

Morphological Characteristics

Porcupine is commonly characterized by its mycelium. They are mostly irregular lumps, spherical, flat, oblong or oblong-ellipsoid, etc., varying in size from as small as a fist to as large as 20-30 centimeters in diameter or larger. The epidermis is light gray-brown or black-brown, rumpled, and the interior is white with a slight pinkish color, composed of numerous mycelium. Substrate umbrella-shaped, 0.5~2 mm in diameter, mouth margin slightly toothed; sexual generation is not easy to see, foveolate, usually attached to the outer skin of the mycelium and born, at first white, then gradually transformed into light brown, holes for polygonal, stretcher rod, stretcher spores ellipsoidal to cylindrical, slightly flexed, a pointed, smooth, colorless, with a peculiar odor.

The effects and functions of Poria Cocos

1, nourish the heart and tranquilize the mind

Poria Cocos has a sweet and light taste, is flat and slightly warm, enters the heart meridian, nourishes the heart and tranquillizes the mind. As stated in the "Drugs and Drugs", "Dai Ren said that the heart is hot and cold when it is weak. If the heart gas is weak and timid, God does not guard the house, palpitations and anxiety, the soul is in a trance, labor and timid forgetfulness, it is desirable to warm the heart and God, not this can not be." Insomnia, epilepsy, amnesia and other evidence, commonly used in the treatment of this product.

2, tonic deficiency cure labor

This taste sweet, flat and slightly warm, into the heart, spleen meridians. It can tonify the heart and spleen, and treat deficiency. Heart and spleen deficiency, mostly caused by the disease of long time imbalance, or tiredness and anxiety, or chronic hemorrhage. Symptoms include palpitation and anxiety, insomnia and dreaming. Dizziness and forgetfulness, yellowish color, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and loose stools, fatigue, or subcutaneous hemorrhage, with a pale and tender tongue and weak pulse. The treatment should benefit qi and strengthen the spleen, nourish blood and tranquilize the mind. Poria has this effect, so it can be used.

3. Promote water retention and reduce edema

Poria Cocos treats edema. The regulation of the body's fluid metabolism is the responsibility of the lungs, spleen, kidneys and triple jiao. The lungs are responsible for promoting and regulating the waterways and spreading fluid; the spleen is responsible for transporting and transforming fluid; the kidneys are responsible for vaporizing fluid; and the triple jiao is responsible for regulating the path of fluid. If one of them (or more) gasification malfunction, the water metabolism obstacles, resulting in stagnation of water and fluid, edema. Treatment with Poria, its taste sweet and light nature of flat, diuretic and does not hurt the gas, so the main treatment, but also because of its work to strengthen the spleen, so the spleen is weak to transport late. Water and dampness stagnation with the use of both the symptoms and the effect, so it is more appropriate to choose Z.

4, tumor inhibition

Poria sugar structure for β (1 a 6) glucopyranoside branched chain, when the branched chain cut off into simple β-(1-3) glucan (i.e., Poria polysaccharide), the rate of inhibition of sarcoma 180 up to 98.88%.

Contraindications of Poria

Poria should be taken with caution for people with kidney deficiency who have unfavorable or incontinence of urination, and those with deficiency cold and slippery semen.

Difference between Poria and Poria

Poria is a square, white part of the fungus Poria cocos with a pine root (Poria wood) in the middle. It has the same flavor as Poria, but Poria enters the spleen and kidneys, while Poria enters the heart. It has the function of calming the heart and tranquilizing the mind, and is specially used in cases of restlessness of the heart and mind, forgetfulness, palpitations, insomnia, and so on. The dosage is 6--9 grams. Poria also has the effect of diuresis, just weaker than Poria bark.

How to eat Poria

1, Miao Xiang Poria soup

Ingredients: 12 grams of sour jujube nut, Poria 10 grams, 50 grams of lean pork, 1 egg, 20 grams of cornstarch, 100 grams of vegetable gall bladder, 10 grams of soy sauce, 10 grams of green onion, 5 grams of ginger, 5 grams of salt, 50 grams of raw veggie oil.

Practice: Poria, sour jujube kernel impurities, pork lean meat washed, sliced, vegetable gall bladder washed, cut 4 cm section, green onion cut flowers, ginger shredded.

Poria, sour jujube nut put in a stew cup, add 50 ml of water, with medium heat decoction of 25 minutes, remove the slag, leave the juice to be used. Put the pork into a bowl, add cornstarch, medicinal juice, eggs, salt, soy sauce, ginger, green onions, mixed into a thick to be used. Put the pot on the heat, add oil, burn six mature, into the ginger, green onion incense, add 600 ml of soup, boiling, into the pork to cook, add vegetable gall bladder, broken into.

Functions: nourish qi and blood, tranquilize the heart and tranquilize the mind, walk qi and liver, heart and liver disorders dreamy coronary heart disease people to eat.

2, Por Shen soup

Ingredients: Por Shen (wood. Four taels), Duhuo (four taels), yellow yarrow (five taels), Yuanzhi (remove heart. five taels), Fangfeng (five taels). (five taels), wind (five taels), ginger (three taels), licorice (one or two), ginseng (one or two), angelica (one or two), oyster (calcined . (one or two), Atractylodes macrocephala (one or two), Cistanche (one or two), Pseudostemonopsis (one or two).

Directions: Take one bucket and two liters of waterlogged water, boil three liters, take five, and finish it in one day and night.

Functions: treatment of wind dizziness and collapse, house turn vomiting, evil smell of human voices.