There is no Poria cocos, it should be Poria cocos misspelled. Poria cocos and Poria cocos in the drug source, flavor and attribution, efficacy and main treatment are different.
Poria cocos is the dried tuber of light-leaved sarsaparilla of Sarsaparilla family, and Poria cocos is the reddish part of the dried fungus of Poria cocos in the family of Poraceae near the outer skin.
Poria cocos is sweet and light in flavor, flat in nature, and is attributed to the liver and stomach meridians; Poria cocos is sweet and light in flavor, flat in nature, and is attributed to the heart, spleen and bladder meridians.
Poria cocos can detoxify, remove dampness, facilitate joints, treat eczema, itching, carbuncle, swollen sores, limb contracture, etc. It can also be used to treat syphilis, mercury poisoning.
Red Poria can move water, relieve dampness and heat, and treat urinary incontinence (dysuria), edema, gonorrhea, diarrhea and other conditions. It should be noted that people with deficiency cold and essence slippery or qi deficiency and subsidence should not take Chi Fu Ling.
Note that if there are any related symptoms, it is recommended to seek medical advice in time, do not self-medicate.