Poria cocos is a common Chinese medicine. We often use poria cocos in health preservation. Poria cocos powder has many health-care functions, which are beneficial to our health. So how to eat poria powder? Let's take a look!
Efficacy and function of Poria cocos powder
In China traditional medicine, Poria cocos has been used as medicine for more than 2000 years. In Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, Poria cocos is listed as the top grade, which has the effect of "calming the heart and nourishing the spirit, and not starving for a long time". Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Poria cocos is the end, mixed with honey, and applied to the face to cure puerpera's facial sores and black blisters like birds' eggs."
Poria cocos powder is the powder of Poria cocos, which is generally white, light gray and dark gray after brewing. Flat in nature, sweet and light in taste, containing triterpenoids, polysaccharides, choline, fat, lecithin, potassium, magnesium and other elements. Has the effects of promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen, calming heart, removing speckle, whitening skin and moistening skin. Poria cocos can not only significantly improve the body's immunity, but also make oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood release more oxygen for tissues and cells. At the same time, it can also enhance the activity and vitality of cells (including skin, mucosa, hair, etc.). ) and make it in a healthy state, so that our skin and hair are more moist and achieve the effect of beauty.
How to eat poria powder
Yam, barley, poria cocos and japonica rice porridge
Wash japonica rice, coix seed and yam first, then add a proper amount of water and cook in a pot until half cooked.
Add appropriate amount of Poria powder, mix well and cook, and take it on an empty stomach.
Porridge porridge
Japonica rice is washed clean.
Put japonica rice and Poria powder into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, stew with slow fire until the rice is rotten, then add monosodium glutamate, salt and pepper, and stir well.
Take it twice a day for breakfast and dinner, which can strengthen spleen and stomach, promote edema, and can be used for senile edema.
Coix seed poria porridge
First, soak mushrooms and cut them into cubes;
Peel the chicken breast, remove the oil, boil it in a pot for 30-40 minutes, then take it out and cut it into diced meat; Poria cocos grinding powder;
Then repeatedly washing Coicis Semen with clear water, soaking in hot water 1 night, draining, adding 7 times of clear water to boil, and boiling;
Boil japonica rice with 5 times of clear water 1 hour, combine the two clots, add mushrooms, diced chicken and Poria powder, and cook until sticky (seasoning can be added when taking).
This prescription uses Coicis Semen and Poria cocos to strengthen the spleen, promote diuresis, moisten skin and remove spots, and japonica rice and chicken to replenish qi and deficiency, which is suitable for damp heat constitution.
Fuling milk tea
First, mix Poria powder with cold boiled water evenly, and then add boiled milk.
Poria powder mask
Poria cocos honey mask
Ingredients: Poria cocos powder 15g white honey 30g.
Practice: Mix honey and poria powder into paste. Apply face before going to bed at night, and Rosty Yi can wash it off with clear water.
Efficacy: The facial mask has the effects of nourishing skin and eliminating chloasma of senile plaque. Ancient doctors believed that Poria cocos can dissolve all black spots and scars, and when used in combination with honey, it can not only nourish the skin, but also dilute pigment spots.
Three white masks
Ingredients: white flour 1 teaspoon, poria cocos 2 teaspoons, bletilla striata 1 teaspoon, fresh aloe juice, honey or milk.
Practice: Mix the above three powders, add honey in winter and blend. If you feel sticky, add a few drops of milk Summer or super oily skin, just add some milk to blend. 20 to 30 minutes at a time.
Efficacy: This mask has the effects of softening, whitening and moisturizing.
Almond poria cocos mask
Ingredients: almond powder 30g, Poria cocos powder 10g, lotus seeds 10g, and proper amount of flour.
Practice: Chinese herbal medicines are ground into fine powder and mixed with flour evenly. Add warm water to adjust it to a moderate thickness and apply it evenly on your face. 20? After 30 minutes, wash your face with water.
Description: This facial mask is a prescription of imperial doctors in Qing Dynasty, which has the functions of smoothing skin and delaying skin aging.
Mung bean three-white mask
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons of mung bean powder, 2 teaspoons of white flour 1 teaspoon, 2 teaspoons of poria cocos, 0 teaspoon of bletilla striata/kloc-0, and appropriate amount of honey or milk.
Practice: Mix mung bean powder, white powder, Poria cocos and Bletilla striata powder, add honey in winter, and add a few drops of milk if it feels sticky. Summer or super oily skin, just add some milk to blend. 20 to 30 minutes at a time. Do it 2-3 times a week.
Beautiful secret: this can be taken out of beans and printed. But pay attention to the usage of honey and milk when the skin is different and the weather is different.
Silver jade mask
Ingredients: 5g of white powder, 5g of Poria cocos powder and 5g of tremella fuciformis powder.
Usage: Mix white powder, Poria cocos powder and tremella powder into paste. Apply this mask to your face at night and wash it off the next morning. Over 1 month.
Efficacy: This prescription has the effect of nourishing skin and lightening pigment spots. Tremella fuciformis is rich in amino acids, zinc, collagen and other trace elements, which can nourish the skin. Angelica dahurica can promote blood circulation and dispel wind, and Poria cocos can dilute all black spots and scars. Sticking to this mask 1 month can eliminate skin spots.