What are the effects and functions of Fu Shen?

Usually, you may not have heard of many medicinal herbs, because some of them are Chinese patent medicines, and they are rarely seen in the medicines we usually take. Now most people receive Western medicine treatment. Poria is a kind of medicinal herb, and few people know its main effects and functions, especially its rich effects in nourishing the heart and calming the mind, replenishing blood and qi, reducing swelling and promoting bowel movements, promoting water metabolism, and inhibiting tumors.

1. Calming the mind and soothing the spirit

Poria has a sweet and mild taste, is mild in nature and slightly warm, enters the heart meridian, nourishes the heart and calms the mind. As stated in "Pharmaceutical Chemistry": "Dai Ren said, the heart is inherently hot, but becomes cold when it is weak. If the heart is weak and timid, the spirit is distracted, the person is frightened and dazed, the soul is in a trance, the person is tired and forgetful, all of these require warming the heart and spirit, otherwise it will not work." This product is often used to treat insomnia, epilepsy, forgetfulness and other symptoms.

2. Tonify the body and cure fatigue

This herb is sweet in taste, mild in nature and slightly warm in nature. It enters the heart and spleen meridians. It nourishes the heart and spleen, and treats deficiency. Deficiency of both the heart and spleen is mostly caused by long-term illness, fatigue, worry, or chronic bleeding. Symptoms include palpitations, insomnia, dizziness, forgetfulness, sallow complexion, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and loose stools, fatigue, or subcutaneous bleeding, pale tongue and weak pulse. Treatment is suitable for invigorating Qi and strengthening the spleen, nourishing blood and calming the mind. Poria has this effect, so it can be used.

3. Diuresis and swelling

Poria treats edema. The regulation of the body's water metabolism is responsible for the lungs, spleen, kidneys and triple energizer. The lungs are responsible for dispersing and descending, regulating the water channels and distributing body fluids; the spleen is responsible for transporting and transforming water; the kidney yang is responsible for evaporating water; and the triple burner is the pathway for the regulation of water. If one (or more) of the qi transformation functions are abnormal, water metabolism will be disturbed, resulting in water stagnation and edema. Poria is used for treatment. It tastes sweet and mild in nature, and is neutral in nature. It can promote diuresis without damaging Qi, so it is the main treatment. It also has the function of strengthening the spleen, so it can treat weak spleen and slow functioning. It can be used by those with water retention, and it has the effect of treating both the symptoms and the root cause, so it is the more suitable choice.

4. Tumor inhibition

The structure of tuckahoe sugar is a side chain of β (1-6) pyranoglucoside. When the side chain is cut off and becomes a pure β- (1-3) glucan (i.e. tuckahoe polysaccharide), the inhibitory effect rate on sarcoma 180 reaches 98.88%.