The correct use of Poria Chen Pi is to decoct the soup instead of brewing water, Poria Chen Pi decoct the soup to drink efficacy is to invigorate the spleen, diuresis, tranquilize the heart and tranquilize the mind.
1. Chenpi is a kind of Chinese medicine. It is pungent, bitter, warm, and belongs to the spleen and lung meridian. It is effective in regulating qi and strengthening the spleen (regulating qi and strengthening the spleen), drying dampness and resolving phlegm (removing phlegm from the body with drying dampness medicine). It is useful in treating stagnation of qi in the spleen and stomach, vomiting, eructation (hiccups), damp phlegm, and thoracic paralysis (tightness and pain in the chest).
Adverse effects of Chen Pi are not known. Avoid foods that are cold, sticky and prone to phlegm production. Caution should be exercised in cases of qi deficiency, yin deficiency and dry cough, vomiting of blood, and red tongue with little fluid and internal solid heat.
2. Poria is a kind of Chinese medicine. Taste sweet, light, flat, to the heart, lung, spleen meridian. Its effect is to promote water retention and eliminate swelling (to facilitate urination and eliminate edema), seepage of dampness, strengthen the spleen, in addition to the efficacy of ningxin. It is useful in treating edema, phlegm (pathological products formed by impaired water-liquid metabolism), palpitation (rapid heartbeat, often accompanied by panic), and insomnia.
This product should not be used together with Ampelopsis, Diels-Alder, Gentiana Macrophyllae, Goujia, and Xionghuang, and should be taken with caution for those who have a deficiency of yin without dampness-heat, a deficiency of cold and essence-slip, or a deficiency of qi and subluxation.
From the viewpoint of “eighteen anti” and “nineteen fear” of traditional Chinese medicine, Chen Pi Poria does not have any contraindications, and the combination of the two medicines has the effect of strengthening the spleen, inducing dampness and tranquilizing the heart and the mind. Generally, Chinese medicine can only be effective through decoction, so drinking it in water may affect its efficacy because of the low release of active ingredients.
If there is a need for medication, it should be used under the guidance of a doctor, and not blindly used on its own, in order to avoid adverse consequences.