How to eat Poria cocos and what to avoid

Poria cocos is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It can be used together with many other Chinese medicines to regulate the body and treat diseases. However, any Chinese herbal medicine has certain toxicity. Therefore, each medicine has its consumption contraindications. Before taking the medicine, you must first understand its efficacy and contraindications so that the medicine can work and effectively avoid dangerous situations such as drug allergies. Next, let’s take a look at how to eat Poria cocos and what it should and should not do.

1. Efficacy and contraindications of Poria cocos

(I) Efficacy of Poria

1. Nourish the mind and calm the spirit:

Poria cocos also contains some nutrients that can calm the nerves. Mental problems caused by work pressure or other reasons, such as frequent insomnia, frequent dreams, depression in life, lack of laughter, and overly tense nerves, can be relieved and cured by stewing Poria cocos, ginseng, and jujube kernels into a high soup.

2. Anti-cancer and anti-tumor:

Poria cocos is rich in anti-cancer ingredients, including anti-cancer vitamins, trace elements, amino acids, etc. Eating Poria cocos can inhibit the production of cancer cells, destroy the DNA of cancer cells, remove carcinogenic free radicals in our body, etc. Whether it is used to prevent cancer or to treat cancer, Poria cocos has very obvious effects.

3. Treat cough, sputum, backache:

Poria cocos also has a certain curative effect on colds, especially those caused by dampness and heat. The specific symptoms of colds are chronic cough, excessive sputum, and in severe cases, sore hands and feet, fatigue and back pain. Generally speaking, when this happens, you can achieve certain auxiliary treatment purposes by eating Poria cocos to make porridge or stew it.

4. Treat edema and promote urination:

Poria has a good therapeutic effect on edema and difficulty urinating in the body, especially for people with sparse urination. Moreover, Poria cocos has a mild medicinal property, which can increase our urine volume without damaging our spleen and stomach. For people with difficulty urinating and edema, whether it is due to cold and dampness, dampness and heat or other types, they can eat Poria cocos for treatment without worrying that Poria cocos will increase the severity of the disease.

(II) Taboos of Poria

1. Don’t eat Poria with rice vinegar.

2. Patients with kidney deficiency, polyuria, cold and spermatorrhea, qi deficiency and sinking, and dryness of body fluids should take with caution.

3. Patients with Yin deficiency without damp-heat, deficiency-cold spermatorrhea, or Qi deficiency and sinking should take with caution.

2. How to eat Poria cocos

1. Poria cocos and five-flavor porridge

Ingredients: 10g Poria powder, 6g Schisandra chinensis, 100g polished rice.

Preparation method: First wash the polished rice and Schisandra chinensis; then put the polished rice into the rice cooker, add Poria powder, Schisandra chinensis and water, and cook until the porridge is cooked.

Efficacy: Removes dampness, strengthens the spleen, nourishes the heart qi.

2. Smilax glabra old turtle

Ingredients: 500g turtle, 30g smilax glabra, 2g salt

Preparation: First remove the turtle’s head and shell, clean it, and cut it into pieces. Then put the wild yam into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water and boil to extract the juice. When the juice is thick, turn off the heat, remove the residue and keep the juice. Finally, put the medicinal juice, turtle meat and salt into the pot, add a little water, and simmer until the turtle meat is cooked through, then turn off the heat.

Efficacy: This soup clears away heat, detoxifies, strengthens the spleen and stomach, and treats red and yellow urine.

3. Poria cocos, Chinese yam and jujube porridge

Ingredients: 50g polished rice, 20g poria cocos, 15g dried jujube, 20g dried yam, 30g brown sugar

Preparation method: Remove the core of the jujube, cook it with Poria cocos, yam and rice into porridge, and add appropriate amount of brown sugar to taste.

Efficacy: It can invigorate the spleen and stomach, eliminate dampness and stop diarrhea. It can be eaten frequently by children with spleen and stomach deficiency, poor appetite, loose stools, fatigue and weakness. Poria cocos is sweet and mild, and has the effects of diuresis and dehumidification, nourishing the spleen and stomach. When used with yam and jujube, it has a mild medicinal property, nourishes the spleen and stomach, and has a more effective effect of removing dampness and stopping diarrhea.