Is Poria powder effective for weight loss?

Poria cocos is a well-known medicinal material. Many people know about it, and now many people regard it as a good ingredient for food supplements. For many women, Poria cocos is favored by many women because of its beauty-enhancing effects. However, there are also claims that Poria cocos can help women lose weight. Is this true? First of all, Poria cocos has the effects of dissipating dampness and promoting diuresis, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and calming the mind and nerves. In addition, Poria cocos has good medicinal properties and can be paired with many medicinal materials, so it has a certain effect on weight loss.

As people's living standards continue to improve, the incidence of obesity is on the rise and has become one of the important causes of modern civilization diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. The root cause of obesity is overeating of fatty and sweet foods and high-calorie diets, which damage the spleen and stomach over time, weakening the spleen's function of transporting water and moisture, causing moisture to accumulate and produce phlegm. Therefore, obese patients have more phlegm and dampness, and promoting dampness and removing phlegm is the first rule for treating obesity. According to traditional Chinese medicine, Poria cocos is sweet, mild and neutral in nature, and enters the heart, lung and spleen meridians. It has the functions of dissipating dampness and promoting diuresis, strengthening the spleen and stomach, removing dampness and eliminating phlegm, and fundamentally invigorating the spleen and stomach's ability to transport and transform water and dampness to achieve the purpose of removing phlegm and dampness and reducing weight.

Therefore, obese people can reduce fat and lose weight by drinking Poria cocos tea regularly, making their bodies more fit and healthy. Usage: Put 10-20 grams of Poria cocos into a cup of boiling water and brew it as tea, 1 dose per day.

However, although Poria cocos has a certain effect on women's weight loss, female friends should not rely too much on Poria cocos to lose weight, and do not deify the effect of Poria cocos. Women's weight loss still mainly depends on controlling your diet and actively exercising. Poria cocos can play an auxiliary role. Therefore, it is a good idea to use Poria cocos appropriately when losing weight.