Red Poria cocos

Red Poria cocos

(notes on materia medica)

[synonym] Chiling (New materia medica) and Chifu (read materia medica).

[source] it is the light red part of dry sclerotia near the outer skin of Poria cocos. The plant morphology is detailed in "Poria cocos".

[herbal medicine] are pieces or pieces of different sizes, all of which are light red or light brown. It is loose and slightly elastic.

The origin is the same as Poria cocos.

[flavor] sweet and light, flat.

① Compendium of materia medica: "sweet, flat, non-toxic. "

② "Must match Materia Medica": "sweet, light, flat. "

③ Bencao Zaixin: "it is pungent, warm and nontoxic. "

[channel tropism] entering heart, spleen and bladder channels.

① "Tang Ye Ben Cao": "enter foot Taiyin, hand Taiyin, Shaoyin. "

② "New Materia Medica": "enter the heart, spleen, lung three channels. "

③ "Into the heart, stomach, small intestine, bladder. "

[function indications] promote water circulation and promote dampness and heat. Treatment of dysentery, diarrhea, adverse.

① "On the nature of drugs": "breaking and accumulating Qi. "

② "Gangmu": "Xiexin small intestine bladder damp heat, Li Qiao line water. "

③ "Bencao Zaixin": "yixinqi, jianzhongpi, Runfei, dryness and dampness. For diarrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-4 Qian; or into pills, powder.

[should avoid] it is forbidden to take it if the deficiency cold is fine and slippery or qi deficiency subsides.

[selected prescription] ① it is not good for white and turbid urine, and sometimes it hurts: Red Poria cocos and eaglewood each have one or two. For the fine end, each serving two money, white soup point, after eating the pro lying service. (Fuling Decoction in Jifeng Puji recipe)

② Treatment of heart and kidney qi deficiency, unconsciousness, urine dripping or can't help, and left discharge white turbidity: Red Poria cocos, white Poria cocos each equal. At the end, wash with fresh water, clear the new foam, control the dry, do not take rehmannia juice, boil with good wine into paste, search and for the ball, such as marble big, hollow salt wine chew. (Zhang Zhenjun Fuling pill in San Yin Fang)

③ Treatment of chest and hypochondriac fullness: Red Poria Cocos (to black skin) one or two, ginseng half two. First, mash and sift the two ingredients, then fry one and a half of them with three cups of water. Then take the Yunzi at three different temperatures. (Fuling Decoction in Shengji Zonglu)