Poria, Job’s Tears and Ginger are used together to strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis, seep dampness and stop diarrhea, and warm the middle and disperse cold (to dispel cold by warming the spleen and stomach).
Poria is a water-inducing and dampness-expelling (promoting the operation of water to dispel dampness) medicine, with a flat nature, sweet taste and light flavor, which belongs to the heart, spleen and kidney meridians, and has the effects of water-inducing and dampness-expelling, strengthening the spleen and tranquilizing the heart, and can be used for oedema, phlegm-drinking (a pathological product formed by the impaired metabolism of water), diarrhea of a deficient spleen, palpitation, insomnia and other disorders. It is not to be taken by those who are cold and slippery or those who are deficient in qi and sinking.
Job’s tear grains, cool, sweet taste, light, can promote water seepage and dampness, strengthen the spleen, remove paralysis, clearing heat and pus, can be used for edema, urinary incontinence (urine is not smooth), diarrhea of the spleen, dampness paralysis (wind, cold and dampness invade the tendons, traction and constriction, activity can not be free), intestinal carbuncle (carbuncle occurred in the bowels of the intestinal organs, to fever, right abdominal pain, can feel the lump for the performance).
Ginger is used for relieving cold (removing cold from the muscle surface), warming and stopping vomiting (treating vomiting caused by stomach cold by warming the spleen and stomach), warming the lungs and relieving cough. It is warm in nature, pungent in taste, and belongs to the lung, spleen and stomach meridians, and can be used for wind-cold cold, stomach-cold vomiting and coughing with cold in the lungs. It is contraindicated in cases of yin deficiency and internal heat and solid heat.
The adverse reactions of the above drugs are not clear. Spleen deficiency without dampness, dry stools and pregnant women should be cautious to take Coix lacryma.
Patients who are not feeling well are advised to consult a doctor in time, do not take medication without authorization, and need to use medication under the guidance of a doctor.