Chenpi can be infused into water for drinking; Poria is not recommended to be infused into water for drinking because its active ingredients are not soluble in water and can exert limited medicinal effects.
Chenpi is the dried mature fruit peel of orange, often used to make water to drink. Chenpi is pungent, bitter and warm in nature, and its effects include regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm (expelling dampness by drying dampness and resolving phlegm).
Chen Pi can be used to treat stagnation of qi in the spleen and stomach, food stagnation (accumulation of food in the stomach due to indigestion), abdominal pain, distension of the epigastrium (stomach and abdomen), inappetence, vomiting, hiccups, diarrhea, etc. It can also be used to treat coughs caused by damp phlegm or cold phlegm, and also can move qi to relieve paralysis and relieve pain, and to treat thoracic paralysis (stuffy pain in the chest), which causes congestion of Qi and shortness of breath in the chest.
Poria is a common flavor of Chinese medicine in life, for the parasitic on the roots of red pine and other dried fungal nuclei. Poria has a sweet, light flavor and flat nature; it belongs to the heart, spleen and kidney meridians; it has the effects of inducing diuresis and seepage of dampness (promoting the flow of water to get rid of dampness), strengthening the spleen, and calming the heart and tranquillizing the mind.
Poria can be used for all kinds of edema, diarrhea, phlegm (pathological product formed by water metabolism disorder), poor appetite (poor appetite), etc. caused by spleen deficiency and dampness, and palpitation and insomnia caused by deficiency of heart and spleen, etc.; however, its active ingredients can not be completely dissolved in water, it is difficult to play its maximum effect, and it is better to take it by decoction.
Therefore, Chen Pi can be drunk in water, Poria suggests drinking in water.