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Poria cocos, the name of a Chinese herbal medicine. It is the dried root of the legume plant Pueraria lobata, commonly known as Pueraria lobata. Harvested in autumn and winter, cut into thick slices or small pieces while fresh; dried. Sweet, spicy, cool. It has the functions of relieving muscles and reducing fever, clearing rashes, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and generating yang to treat diarrhea. It is common in superficial symptoms of fever, stiffness and pain in the neck and back, hives that do not break out, dry mouth due to heat syndrome, thirst due to kidney yin deficiency, hot diarrhea and dysentery, and diarrhea due to spleen deficiency.

When the drug location

The dried root of the legume plant kudzu.

Poria cocos efficacy

It tastes sweet and spicy, and is cool in nature.

Meridians

It enters the lung, liver and gallbladder meridians.

effect

It can relieve muscles and reduce fever, clear rashes, promote the production of body fluids and quench thirst, and generate yang to treat diarrhea.

Main

It is used for external symptoms of fever, stiffness and pain in the neck and back, hives that do not break out, dry mouth due to heat syndrome, thirst due to kidney yin deficiency, hot diarrhea and dysentery, and diarrhea due to spleen deficiency.

About Matching

1. Headache and high fever caused by seasonal weather: Wash raw Poria cocos, mash it into a large cup of juice, add one cup of fermented black beans, boil for six minutes, remove the residue and divide it into portions for drinking. The symptoms will be cured when sweat comes out. Take again if you don’t sweat. If the heart is hot, add ten Gardenia jasminoides kernels. (Sheng Hui Fang)

2. To prevent fever and acute jaundice and typhoid fever: 2 liters of kudzu powder, 1 liter of raw rehmannia root, and half a liter of fragrant beans. To disperse. Take one inch of it with rice water after each meal, three times a day. Five mourning clothes for illness. (Pang Anchang, Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

3. To ward off malaria and stay clean from all dust: drink a small cup of juice made from raw kudzu vine to remove heat, poison and gas. (Sheng Hui Fang)

4. Heartburn, heat and thirst: 4 liang of kudzu powder, first soak half a liter of corn in water overnight, strain it out, stir it, and cook it into porridge. (Sheng Hui Fang)

5. Continuous nausea: Crush the Poria cocos juice, take one liter, the condition will be cured. (Behind the Elbow)

Usage method Dosage

Take by soaking, 9-15g.

taboo

It is not suitable for people with yin deficiency and internal heat, and should be used with caution by those with stomach cold and vomiting.

Chinese medicine preparation method

Remove residue, wash, soak, slice and dry.

Physiological characteristics

A thick vine, up to 8 meters long, covered with long, stiff yellow hairs, with a woody tip and hard, thick rootlets. Pinnate compound leaves with 3 leaflets; bracts dorsal, ovate-long ring-shaped, with wireframe; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, as long as or longer than leaflet stems; leaflets trilobed, sometimes entire, terminal leaflet broadly ovate or obliquely ovate, 8-15(-19) cm long, 5-12(-18) cm wide, apex long acuminate, lateral leaflets obliquely ovate, slightly smaller, covered with light yellow, spreading pubescent hairs on top. Dense below; leaflets with yellow pubescent hairs on stems. The pods are oblong, 5-9 cm long, 8-11 mm wide, flat, and covered with long dark brown hard hairs. The flowering period is September-October, and the fruiting period is November-December. It grows in the grass on hillsides, along roadsides and in relatively humid areas, or in valley forests at an altitude of 1000-3200 meters.

country of origin

It is produced in most parts of my country, mainly in Liaoning Province, Hebei Province, Henan Province, Shandong Province, Anhui Province, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, Fujian Province, Taiwan, Guangdong Province, Guangxi Province, Jiangxi Province, Hunan Province, Hubei Province, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province, Gansu Province and other places.