Poria cocos is the dry sclerotia of Poria cocos, which is more than that of Poria cocos collected from July to September. After being dug out, the sediment is removed, and the Poria cocos is piled up and dried until the surface is dry? What are the effects of white Poria cocos? Let's take a look with Xiaobian.
1. Character identification
The intact Poria cocos were round, oval, oblate or irregular masses with different sizes. Skin thin, tan or dark brown, rough, rugose and constricted, sometimes partially exfoliated. It has solid quality, granular broken surface, light red near the edge, small honeycomb like holes, white inside and a few light red. Some of them have pine roots in the middle, and they are often called God blocks. It's weak in breath, light in taste and sticky in chewing.
The patients with solid body weight, brown skin color, fine dermatoglyphics, no cracks, fine white cross-section and strong adhesive force were the best.
2. Powder characteristics
When sliced with Schlegel's solution, there were colorless and irregular granular masses, blunt and round branching masses at the end and slender hyphae; when it met with water, the chloral solution became gelatinous, and the heated masses dissolved.
When 5% KOH solution was used, the mycelium was slender, slightly curved, branched, colorless (inner layer mycelium), or brownish (outer layer mycelium), of different lengths, 3-8 (- 16) & mu; m in diameter, occasionally with transverse septum.
3. Physical and chemical identification
Add a little potassium iodide test solution to the powder, showing a deep red color. For example, add & alpha; - naphthol and concentrated sulfuric acid, showing an orange red to light red color. (check for polysaccharides)
Take 0.5g powder, add 10ml acetone, soak in water bath for 10min, and filter. The filtrate is evaporated to dryness, the residue is dissolved by 1ml glacial acetic acid, and then 1 drop of sulfuric acid is added to make it light red and then light brown. (check ergosterol)
Take 2G powder by TLC, add 4ml ether, soak in cold for 24h, and filter. The filtrate was concentrated to 1ml, and then the sample was spotted on neutral aluminum oxide plate. The filtrate was developed with benzene-95% ethanol (9:1) upward. Under the ultraviolet light (254nm), there were yellow green and purple fluorescent spots.
Extended information:
The magical function of white Poria cocos:
Poria cocos skin is the black skin of Poria cocos. It has good diuretic effect and is used to treat edema and short red urine.
Red Poria cocos is the red part under the cortex of Poria cocos. It has strong diuretic effect. It can treat yellow and red urine and astringent urine.
Poria cocos, a kind of Poria cocos with pine roots, has a strong calming and diuretic effect. It can treat palpitations, forgetfulness and urination.
Fu Shenmu, the pine root that is attached by Fu Shen, can calm the liver and calm the nerves. It is used to treat heart depression and insomnia.
The Poria cocos, which are used in medicated diet and dietotherapy, are mostly processed. The fresh Poria cocos are peeled, ground and dried into white powder. This kind of white Poria cocos powder is beautiful and has a delicate texture, so it's named 'Poria cocos cream'. And we see more Fuling granules, easier to carry and use than cream.
Take Poria cocos powder, can use milk or boiling water to flush it, mix well, every morning to eat about 20 grams of net content, nourishing and spleen effect is best. It can also be made into Poria cocos cake, that is, use Poria cocos powder, rice flour, sugar and other parts, add appropriate amount of water to make a paste, and then use low heat to make a very thin cake in a pan. Eat it often. Try Su Shi's beauty effect of "eat Poria cocos often, face like a virgin.".
The "Sanbai Decoction" recorded in the Ming Dynasty's medical work "Introduction to medicine" is also easy to operate. "Five grams of Paeonia lactiflora, Atractylodes macrocephala and white Poria cocos, two and a half grams of licorice, fried in water and taken warm.". It is suitable for skin roughness, yellowing, chloasma and pigmentation caused by deficiency and cold of Qi and blood.
Poria cocos powder can be used to make 'Poria cocos chicken wonton' to deal with spleen and stomach weakness, nausea and indigestion. Method: Poria cocos 50g, chicken right amount, flour 200g, Poria cocos powder and flour mixed into dough, chicken chopped fine, add ginger, pepper, salt stuffing, package into wonton, cooking can be eaten.
The elderly can also often use white Poria cocos powder and Japonica Rice with porridge, has the effect of health.
Special reminder: people with deficiency cold constitution should not touch Poria cocos; eating Poria cocos also has taboos, such as not suitable for use with some traditional Chinese medicine.
In recent years, people like to use Poria cocos powder to make facial mask and lipstick. Hu Shiyun pointed out that Poria cocos composition of Chinese medicine can enter the blood vessels through the skin and mucosal tissue to make human health care. More research is needed to find the answer. However, such beauty products are easily contaminated by microorganisms and bacteria in the process of self preservation and preservation, and they need to be very cautious.