Five-fingered hairy peach, Poria cocos and Niu Dali belong to the Chinese medicine, the three medicines combined with water decoction, has the effect of strengthening the spleen, tonifying the lungs, paralysis and activation of collaterals.
Five-fingered Walnut has the effects of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the lungs, promoting circulation of Qi and inducing dampness, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals (stretching the tendons and bones, dredging the meridians and channels), and can be used in the treatment of swelling due to spleen deficiency, lack of stamina, consumptive cough, night sweating (sweating abnormally after falling asleep, but sweating stops after waking up), diarrhea, rheumatism and paralysis, and bruises. Adverse reactions and contraindications are not clear.
Poria cocos has the efficacy of detoxification, removing dampness and facilitating the joints, and can treat contracture of limbs and pain in muscles and bones caused by syphilis and mercury poisoning; because of its efficacy in removing dampness, it can treat heat drenching caused by dampness-heat, dysentery and itching of eczema. People with yin deficiency of liver and kidney (insufficient yin fluid in liver and kidney) should take this medicine with caution. Avoid drinking tea while taking this medicine. Adverse reactions are not clear.
Niu Dali has the effects of tonifying deficiency, moistening the lungs, strengthening the tendons and activating the collaterals, and can be used to treat lumbago, wind-cold-dampness paralysis (paralysis of limbs caused by three evils of wind, cold and dampness encroaching on the human body), cough with deficiency of lung yin, consumption, spermatorrhea, and leucorrhoea. Adverse reactions and contraindications are not clear.
The combination of the above three drugs has the efficacy of strengthening the spleen, tonifying the lungs, promoting paralysis and activating collaterals, and can treat cough, night sweating, rheumatism paralysis, lumbago and other conditions.
If there is a need for medication, one should go to a regular hospital and use the medication under the guidance of a doctor’s diagnosis and follow the doctor’s instructions.