Poria cocos has the efficacy of removing dampness and detoxicating, and can treat gonorrhea (increased frequency of urination, dripping and astringent pain). Heat drench is a kind of gonorrhea, so Poria cocos can be combined with other medicines to treat heat drench.
Poria cocos has the effect of detoxification, removing dampness, and facilitating the joints, with sweet and light flavor, flat nature, attributed to the liver meridian and stomach meridian. Clinically, Poria cocos can be used in the treatment of prune sores, limb contracture discomfort, tendon and bone pain, gonorrhea, semen turbidity, female underbearing disease, eczema, itching, and carbuncle, swelling and poisonous sores and other diseases.
Those who are allergic to Tu Fu Ling are forbidden to take it. People with deficiency of Yin in liver and kidney as well as people with allergies should be cautious of using Tu Fu Ling. At present, there is no clear adverse drug reaction after using Poria cocos.
Although Poria cocos can treat febrile showers, but the effect of a single drug is limited, patients with febrile showers need to be treated under the guidance of a professional physician, so as to avoid delaying the condition.