Poria is from the "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing", "Bie Lu" said, Poria, Poria, born in the Tai Shan Valley under the big pine. February, August pick, dry. Poria is a flavor of life-prolonging medicine, "long-serving soul nourishing God, not hungry and prolonged life", Wei Jin, Tang and Song dynasties serving Poria has been very common.

The efficacy of Poria

Poria taste sweet, light, flat. Attributed to the heart, lung, spleen and kidney meridians. It has the effect of inducing diuresis and seepage of dampness, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and tranquilizing the heart and mind. It is used for urinary incontinence, edema and distension, phlegm, palpitations, deficiency of spleen with little food, loose stools and diarrhea, restlessness of the heart and mind, palpitations and insomnia, coughing, vomiting and vomiting, malignant obstruction, diarrhea, spermatorrhea, gonorrhea, and amnesia.

Medicinal Signs: "The main treatment for palpitation and flesh twitching and tendon tigidity, and the side treatment for head dizziness and irritability."

Benjing: "Mainly treats the chest and hypochondriacs with rebellious qi, worry and anger, fear and palpitation, knotting and pain under the heart, cold and heat with vexation and fullness, coughing, dry mouth and tongue, and facilitates urination."

Belonging to the book: "stop thirst, good sleep, abdomen, gonorrhea, phlegm water in the diaphragm, edema, gonorrhea. It opens the chest, regulates the qi of the organs, cuts down the evil of the kidney, grows the yin, benefits the strength of the qi, and preserves the spirit and guards the center."

The Treatise on Medicinal Properties: "Opens the stomach, stops vomiting, and is good at reassuring the mind. The main lung impotence and phlegm congestion. Treating pediatric eclampsia, heart and abdominal distension, and gynecological fever and drenching."

Functions of Poria

1, "medicinal heart": "Poria, light can benefit the orifices, sweet to help the Yang, to remove the dampness of the sacred medicine. The flavor is sweet and flat to tonify the yang, benefit the spleen and chase water, and promote the production of fluids to guide the qi."

2, "Tang Liquid Materia Medica": "Poria, felling kidney evil, urination can stop more, urination astringent can benefit, similar to psyllium, although the benefit of urination and does not take away the gas. Wine soaked with bright cinnabar, can be secret true."

3, "Materia Medica Derivative Supplement": "Poria, Zhongjing more than used to facilitate urination, this is the treatment of stormy new disease of the important medicine, if the yin is deficient, I am afraid that is not appropriate."