Five Fingered Peach and Poria cocos are both Chinese medicines, and together in soup, they have the effects of relaxing the tendons and activating the collaterals (stretching the tendons and bones, dredging the meridians and channels), expelling phlegm and resolving dampness, strengthening the spleen and benefiting the qi, facilitating the joints, detoxifying and removing dampness.
Five-fingered walnut is sweet and slightly warm in nature, entering the lung and spleen meridians, and is good at strengthening the spleen, benefiting qi, resolving dampness and eliminating phlegm. Poria cocos has a mild flavor and sweetness, and is good at detoxifying and inducing dampness, as well as facilitating the joints. These two drugs together in soup, to improve the syphilis or mercury poisoning caused by pain in the muscles and bones, limb contracture, as well as lung deficiency, phlegm asthma, spleen and stomach qi deficiency, less food and abdominal distension of the disease has a certain degree of efficacy.
In addition, five-fingered hairy peach is also good at relieving tendons and activating collaterals, Poria cocos has the effect of removing dampness and detoxification, the two in soup can also improve the dampness-heat gonorrhea, bring down oedema, rheumatism paralysis, carbuncle sores and poisons and other diseases. For those with liver and kidney yin deficiency (insufficient yin fluid in the liver and kidney), Tu Fu Ling should be used with caution.
Improper consumption of Chinese herbs in soup can be damaging to the body, so it must be guided by a professional Chinese medicine doctor.