Poria cocos is both medicine and food, and can be consumed in porridge, soup, etc. If used medicinally, it usually needs to be properly prepared and decocted in order to achieve curative effects. For medicinal use, it usually needs to be reasonably combined and correctly decocted to achieve therapeutic effects.
Poria is both medicine and food, can be used for porridge, soup, such as Poria glutinous rice porridge, Poria porridge with red dates, Poria porridge with tangerine peel, Poria chicken soup, Poria red bean and lotus seed soup. Such as poria glutinous rice porridge, take the appropriate amount of poria, add water, decoction until the amount of water is reduced by half, remove the dregs and take the juice.
Poria is the dried fungus Poria cocos of the Poriaceae family, Poria is sweet, light, flat, has a diuresis and seepage of dampness (to promote the operation of the water to get rid of dampness), strengthen the spleen, the role of the heart, used in the treatment of oedema and urinary deficiency, spleen deficiency with little food, loose stools (feces sparse and unshaped), diarrhea, restlessness of the heart and mind, phlegm and drink, vertigo palpitations (due to the phlegm and drink of evil qi upstream caused by vertigo and palpitations), palpitations and insomnia, and so on.
It should be noted that Poria should be used with caution in people with Yin deficiency without dampness-heat, deficiency cold and slippery semen, and Qi deficiency and subsidence, and its adverse effects are still unknown.
If you need to use Poria as medicine, you need to be guided by a doctor to use the medicine, not blindly.