How much dosage of Five Fingers Poria cocos for its efficacy

Five Fingered Tricholoma has the effects of benefiting qi and strengthening the spleen (regulating the qi of the spleen and stomach), expelling phlegm and resolving dampness, etc. Its usual amount is 15-30 g. Poria cocos has the effects of detoxifying the body and removing dampness, etc. Its usual amount is 15-60 g. Five-fingered Tricholoma is the dried root of Ficus vulgaris of the Moraceae family, which is slightly warm in nature, sweet in flavor, and belongs to the lung, spleen, stomach, large intestine and liver meridians. It can benefit qi and strengthen the spleen, dispel phlegm and dissolve dampness, relieve tendons and activate collaterals (stretching the tendons and bones and dredging the meridians), and is used in the treatment of lung deficiency with phlegm and asthma, deficiency of qi in the spleen and stomach, tiredness and weakness of the limbs, low food intake and abdominal distension, edema, diarrhea, rheumatism paralysis, lumbar and leg pains, and so on. Adverse reactions and contraindications are not clear. Poria cocos is the dried rhizome of Sarsaparilla glabra, family Liliaceae, with sweet, light flavor, flat nature, and attributed to liver and stomach meridians. It can detoxify, remove dampness, and facilitate the joints, and is used in the treatment of constriction of limbs, tendon and bone pain caused by syphilis and mercury poisoning, damp-heat gonorrhea, bandhida, carbuncle, scrofula (mainly refers to cervical lymph node nodule tuberculosis), scabies, etc. It is also used to treat the symptoms of liver and kidney yin deficiency. Caution should be exercised for those with yin deficiency of liver and kidney (deficiency of yin fluid in liver and kidney), and contraindications are not clear for the time being. Specific drugs should be used under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner’s diagnosis and should not be applied on one’s own to avoid risks.