Poria cocos is a traditional Chinese medicine, and can be combined with other traditional Chinese medicines such as Ligusticum chuanxiong, Poria cocos, Dioscorea villosa, etc., but the indications and adaptive groups are different, there is no such thing as “what is better with what”, and it is recommended that patients combine the appropriate and effective medicines according to the cause of the disease.
Poria cocos has the effect of detoxifying and removing dampness, facilitating the joints, and is mainly used for treating Yangmei poisonous sores, limb contracture, gonorrhea and leucorrhea (cloudy urine and leucorrhea), eczema and itchiness, and carbuncle, swelling, and poisonous sores. Adverse drug reactions or contraindications are not clear.
Tu Fu Ling can be combined with Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, which has the effect of activating blood circulation to dispel blood stasis, dispelling wind and relieving pain, and the combination of the two is suitable for headache caused by liver depression and dampness-heat.
Poria cocos can be combined with Poria cocos. Poria cocos has the function of clearing dampness and heat, the two drugs can play a role in clearing heat, diuretic, detoxification, suitable for dampness-heat condensation (dampness and heat in the body of each other’s accumulation) resulting in urinary dribbling.
Tu Fu Ling can also be combined with Dioscorea villosa. This kind of Chinese medicine have the efficacy of dispelling wind and dampness, detoxifying the joints, together with the role of strengthening, for wind-damp heat paralysis, manifested as pain in the tendons and bones, flexion and extension, as well as gonorrhea (increased frequency of urination, dripping astringent pain), leucorrhoea (cloudy urine such as white slurry), and so on.
Poria cocos, if you need to use with other drugs, should be based on the specific condition of the doctor to develop a suitable treatment program, not blindly used on their own, so as to avoid drug interactions, not conducive to the health of the body.