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What are the functions and functions of Poria cocos?
Poria cocos is a common and popular Chinese herbal medicine. It not only has the function of maintenance, but also has the function of adjuvant treatment for some diseases, so many people use it to soak in water for health preservation, but even so, many people still don't know what its function is. So what is the efficacy and action point of poria cocos?

Diuresis Poria can be used for symptoms such as dysuria and edema. Poria cocos is an important drug for treating diuresis and dampness, because it is beneficial to the effect of diuresis and dampness, and its medicinal properties are very peaceful, and diuresis does not hurt healthy qi. As long as it is a symptom of unfavorable urination and heavy hydrops, it can be used in combination with cold dampness or damp heat. For example, people who are prone to cold and dampness can be treated with cassia twig and atractylodes macrocephala. People with deficiency cold can be treated with aconite and atractylodes macrocephala.

Poria cocos 100% decoction has inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Proteus. Therefore, Poria cocos can be used as an antibacterial drug in life and medicine.

Hypoglycemic Poria cocos can affect the metabolism in the body, play a certain balance role in the body function, mediate the body electrolyte and lower blood sugar, so it has a certain therapeutic effect on people with hyperglycemia.

Anti-tumor effect Poria cocos contains a variety of trace elements needed by human body, which has a great influence on human function. At the same time, the polysaccharide contained in Poria cocos also has a strong anti-tumor effect, so Poria cocos has the effects of resisting thymus atrophy, spleen enlargement and inhibiting tumor growth.

It can be said that Poria cocos is one of the rare traditional Chinese medicines with anti-tumor effect in life. Of course, in addition to the above list, poria cocos has many other functions, so I won't explain them here. But if you want to eat poria cocos, you still need to know about it. As the saying goes, knowing ourselves and knowing each other is invincible, and so is treating poria cocos. Only by clearly understanding its efficacy can we better prescribe the right medicine.