Poria cocos [fu ling ]

Poria cocos
[fu ling ]
Chinese herbal medicine
Other names: Yunling, Futu, Fuling, Futu, Songyu, Jiangchen Futai English name: Poria Main effects: diuresis, spleen strengthening, calming the mind and tranquilizing the spirit.
Poria cocos is a Chinese herbal medicine that helps to expel excess water from the body. It has the functions of eliminating edema, regulating the spleen and stomach, promoting digestion and improving sleep. It is often used to treat body edema, reduced urination, poor appetite, insomnia and other problems. Poria cocos is mainly produced in Yunnan, Anhui, Hubei and other places. Among them, the Poria cocos produced in Yunnan is widely recognized for its solid texture and high content of effective ingredients.
Poria cocos has a sweet, light and flat medicinal property. It enters the heart, lung, spleen and kidney meridians.
Poria cocos can not only eliminate edema by promoting urination, but also enhance the transportation and transformation ability of the spleen and stomach, and can also help calm the mind and help sleep. It is particularly suitable for treating problems such as palpitations and edema caused by abnormal water metabolism in the body, especially for edema caused by weak spleen and stomach. Modern research has found that Poria contains Poria polysaccharides, triterpenoid compounds, sterols, as well as nutrients such as protein, fat, and lecithin that helps brain development.
Effects and functions
Poria has three main functions: first, it helps to expel excess water from the body, improve body edema, and poor urination; second, it strengthens the spleen and stomach function, relieves poor appetite, abdominal distension after meals, and poor digestion and absorption; third, it regulates emotions and improves sleep, and has a relieving effect on difficulty falling asleep, dreaming and waking up easily, and irritability. Follow the doctor's advice when using it, and do not take it at will.
What are the main effects and clinical applications of Poria?
Poria is often used for the following symptoms: poor urination, edema; coughing with sputum and vomiting; poor appetite and diarrhea caused by weak spleen and stomach; restlessness, insomnia and forgetfulness; male spermatorrhea or white turbid liquid discharged from the urethra.
!Edema
·Edema and urinary problems caused by imbalanced water and moisture metabolism in the body: Use with Poria, Alisma, Atractylodes, etc.:·Edema caused by insufficient spleen and kidney yang: Use with Aconite, Atractylodes, etc.;
·Difficult urination and edema caused by insufficient yin fluid due to the combination of water and moisture in the body and heat evil: Often used with talcum powder, donkey-hide gelatin, Alisma,
Spleen deficiency diarrhea
Treats weak spleen and stomach, excessive moisture in the body leading to less food intake, easy fatigue, and loose stools, often used with Atractylodes, Chinese yam, and Coix seed.
Sputum cough
Treats cough with excessive sputum and easy coughing up of white sputum caused by spleen dysfunction and accumulation of water and moisture in the body: Use with Pinellia, Tangerine peel, etc.; Treats chest and flank distension and discomfort, dizziness, palpitations, cough and shortness of breath caused by insufficient spleen and stomach yang and abnormal water metabolism: Use with cinnamon twig, Atractylodes, licorice, etc.
Insomnia and palpitations
Treatment of irregular heartbeat, palpitations, forgetfulness and insomnia caused by weak heart and spleen function and insufficient qi and blood: Use with ginseng, angelica, and jujube seeds; Treatment of mood swings, irritability, palpitations, forgetfulness and insomnia caused by dysfunction of the heart and kidney: Use with Codonopsis, Polygala, and Acorus calamus.