Poria can be fried and ground into powder to eat. Poria is a dual-use food, in the Poria fried, polished into powder, can be placed in porridge or milk to take together, can provide the body with certain nutrients, but also can alleviate edema and urine, spleen deficiency, less food and other symptoms, but the role of a single drug treatment is limited. Poria, sweet and light in flavor, flat in nature. Attributed to the heart, lung, spleen and kidney meridians. As a medicine, it has the effects of diuresis and seepage of dampness (promoting the operation of water to dispel dampness), strengthening the spleen and tranquilizing the heart. It is used in treating edema with low urine output, phlegm-drinking vertigo and palpitations (vertigo and palpitations caused by phlegm-drinking evil qi), spleen deficiency with low food intake, loose stools (loose and unformed stools) and diarrhea, restlessness of the heart and mind, palpitations and insomnia. It should be noted that, Yin deficiency without dampness-heat, cold and slippery semen, Qi deficiency and subsidence should be taken with caution. Although Poria cocos as a kind of medicinal food, but also need to be taken under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner’s diagnosis.