Poria cocos is flat, sweet and light, and enters the heart, spleen and kidney. It has the functions of strengthening the spleen, regulating the stomach, promoting diuresis and infiltrating dampness, and was listed as the top grade as early as Shennong Herbal Classic. Physicians in past dynasties praised its efficacy of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, and paid more attention to it in court health care in Qing Dynasty. There are 64 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines in 13 Yishou prescription that Cixi often takes, among which Poria is the most used one.
Poria cocos should be used in spring medicinal diet soup, which can not only strengthen the spleen and stomach, but also dispel dampness and detoxify.
Ingredients: Poria cocos 30g, Astragalus membranaceus15g, 6 round meats, 6 red dates, 500g lean pork and 3 slices ginger.
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1, "Compendium of Materia Medica": Poria cocos is light and thorough in taste. Sexually, it is fluid-promoting, menstruation-dredging, water-promoting, but urination-promoting, so Zhang Jie was called Yang, floating and true in ancient times; Dongyuan called it the yin of yang, and it is said that the capacity reduction was successful. ?
2, "Herbal Yi Yan": Poria cocos and Poria cocos have many merits in running water, which are indispensable for benefiting the heart and spleen.
3, "Materia Medica is positive": it can help to eliminate dampness, which will make you happy and puzzle, and guide turbidity and produce fluid; Eliminating dampness will drain water, dry the spleen, tonify the middle energizer and strengthen the stomach; Seizures, thick intestines, the root of phlegm treatment, and the decline of drugs. It tastes slightly sweet, so it is called tonifying yang. But make up less and make up more.
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