Poria has the effect of diuresis, edema and other patients may lose weight after taking, but the drug will not make its own fat loss, and the active ingredients of a single drug is limited, the specific use of medication, please follow the doctor’s instructions. Poria is sweet and light in taste, flat in nature, belonging to the heart, lung, spleen and kidney meridians, it has the effect of inducing water and seeping dampness (promoting the operation of water to get rid of dampness), strengthening the spleen and tranquilizing the heart, and is used for edema and urination, dizziness, palpitations (rapid heartbeat, often accompanied by panic), spleen deficiency with little food, loose stools (loose and unshaped feces) and diarrhea, restlessness of the heart and mind, palpitations and insomnia. Edema caused by deficiency of spleen and kidney yang (deficiency of yang qi in the spleen and kidneys) resulting in water and fluid not being transformed, and water-dampness internal stagnation (water-dampness stays in the body), etc. After taking Poria cocos, weight loss may occur due to the elimination of water-dampness in the body, but the drug will not reduce the fat in itself, and it does not have weight loss efficacy. Poria is afraid of Diyu, Gentiana Macrophylla, Goujia, Xionghuang, etc.; it should be used with caution in people with yin deficiency without dampness-heat, and those who have a deficiency of qi. In addition, the active ingredients of single drugs are limited and only play an auxiliary role, and do not have the therapeutic effect of multi-drugs used in combination. If you feel unwell and need to take medication, please go to the hospital and use it under doctor’s guidance.