The effects of Poria are diuretic, subduing swelling, seeping dampness, strengthening the spleen and tranquilizing the heart, and are suitable for treating edema and palpitation. Soybean (i.e. yellow soybean) is used to strengthen the spleen and eliminate stagnation, promote water retention and reduce swelling, and is suitable for treating food stagnation (indigestion of food and stagnation in the stomach), and edema due to spleen deficiency.
Poria is a traditional Chinese medicine made from the dried fungus Poria cocos of the genus Poria of the family Polyporaceae. It has the effects of inducing diuresis to eliminate swelling, seeping dampness, strengthening the spleen and tranquilizing the heart, and is suitable for treating oedema, phlegm (a pathological product formed as a result of impaired metabolism of water), palpitation, insomnia, and diarrhea due to deficiency of the spleen.
Soybean is the yellow seed kernel of soybean, which is not a traditional Chinese medicine, but it has the efficacy of strengthening the spleen and eliminating stagnation, inducing diuresis and swelling in Chinese Medicine and Dietetics, and it is suitable for the treatment of food stagnation and diarrhea (diarrhea and dysentery caused by indigestion of food stagnating in the stomach), abdominal distension and food stagnation, water retention in spleen deficiency, and carbuncle and swelling, etc. The contraindications are not clear. Contraindications are not clear. It is not advisable to take too much of it internally.
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