Poria cocos can be soaked in water for drinking, but soaking water may not be able to completely precipitate the active ingredients of the drug, so the efficacy is limited, decoction of this product can better play its efficacy.
Poria cocos is the dried rhizome of light-leaved sarsaparilla of the lily family. It is sweet and light in flavor and flat in nature. Attributed to the liver, stomach meridian. It can detoxify, remove dampness and facilitate joints. Used for syphilis and mercury poisoning caused by limb contracture, muscle and bone pain; damp-heat gonorrhea, bring down, carbuncle, scrofula (mainly refers to the neck lymph node tuberculosis), scabies.
Poria cocos with Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong can elevate the clear and lower the turbid (so that the clear qi rises and the turbid qi falls), activate the blood and qi, clear heat and remove dampness. It is suitable for headache caused by liver depression and damp-heat; Poria cocos with Poria cocos can have the function of clearing heat, diuretic and detoxification. It is suitable for the urinary dribbling of dampness-heat condensation (dampness and heat evils accumulate with each other in the body).
Patients are advised to use the medicine under the guidance of a doctor.