Red poria

[ source ] from the" materia medica by variorum".
[ ] Pinyin name Ch F L n cabinet to be Golf
English name [ ] light red Indian Bread, light red Tuckahoe
[ alias ] red, red Fu Ling
[ source ]
Medicine source: Polyporaceae fungal tuckahoe dried sclerotium near cortex reddish part.
Latin animal mineral name: Poria Cocos ( Schw. ) Wolf. [ Pavhyma Cocos Fr ]
Harvest and storage: the harvest season and method with tuckahoe, when tuckahoe peel off the skin (by the tuckahoe peel ), then cut into uniform thickness film, take the pink to red Poria, dried.
[ ] the original form sclerotia spherical, oval, elliptical and irregular in shape, long 10-30cm or longer, ranging from general weight, weight 500-5000g. Smoke outside thick and multiple folds of the skin, dark brown when fresh, soft dry harden; internal white or pale pink, granular powder. Fruiting bodies was born in sclerotia surface, the flat, thick 3-8cm, white, fleshy, old or dry after a light brown. In dense 2-3mm thin tube wall, pipe circular, polygonal or irregular in shape, diameter 0.5-1.5cm, Adoral split into dentate. Spore oblong to nearly cylindrical, smooth, with a crooked tip, size ( 7.5-9 ) m x ( 3-3.5 ) ~ M.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment : in pine tree root.
Resource distribution: located in Jilin, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Henan, Hubei, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, sichuan.
[ character ] trait identification of this product is the size of the box, the length and width of 4-5cm, thickness of 0.4-0.6cm, with length and width of more than 1.5cm fragments, reddish or light brown. Quality of loose, with slight elasticity. Gas, light.
[ ] taste Gan; light; flat
[ ] to the heart; spleen; bladder
[ ] functions water; dampness. The main difficulty in urination; edema turbidity; leaching; diarrhea
[ usage]: orally taken decoction, 6-12g; or into the pill, powder.
[ note ] cold fine slip or Qi sinking not to wear.
[ ] the discussion
1" resistance": broken nodes of gas.
2" compendium of Materia Medica": Xiexin intestinal bladder damp-heat, promoting urination water.
3" new" materia medica: heart health benefits, and spleen, lungs, eliminating dampness. Treatment of dysentery.
4 Tao Hongjing: tuckahoe red is good.
5" herbal" Xuan: Red Poria but spilled hot water, and the more reactive than white tuckahoe also.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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