Where is the origin of Poria cocos?

Poria cocos is the dry sclerotia of Poria cocos, a pseudopore fungus, shaped like sweet potato, globular, light brown or dark brown skin, internal pink or white, the ancients called Poria cocos as "04:00 divine medicine", because the efficacy is very extensive, regardless of the four seasons, it will be compatible with various drugs, regardless of cold, warm, wind, wet diseases can play its unique effect, let's take a look at where Poria cocos are!

Where is the origin of Poria cocos?

Poria cocos are often parasitic on the roots of Pinus koraiensis or Pinus massoniana, and occasionally found in the roots of other coniferous and broad-leaved trees. China is distributed in Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shanxi and other places, mainly in Anhui, Yunnan, Hubei, Vietnam, Thailand and India.

The growth process of Poria cocos

The mycelia of Poria cocos will decompose the matrix components under suitable external conditions, choose to absorb and transform into their own nutrients, and gradually increase. When the mycelium forms in large quantities and occupies the whole matrix, it agglomerates in the suitable place to form sclerotia. When the sclerotia developed to a certain extent in the soil, the sclerotia gradually expanded upward and the upper part of the soil surface was exposed, and milky flake small honeycomb fruiting bodies were produced below the exposed soil surface. After the fruiting body matures, a large number of spores are released from the fruiting body layer. Under suitable conditions, the spores germinated and grew, formed a new mycelium and began a new generation of life.

Common species of Poria cocos

1. Poria cocos skin: Poria cocos skin is the black skin of Poria cocos sclerotia. It is suitable for edema and adverse urination. It is often compatible with ginger peel, mulberry white peel, tangerine peel and big abdominal peel.

2, with skin Ling: take skin Ling to cut Poria cocos into pieces, take red Poria cocos with skin, the efficacy is the same as Poria cocos skin, if there is no skin Poria cocos, you can replace it with the mixture of Poria cocos with 3 hand 4 and Poria cocos with 1 hand 4.

3. Red Poria cocos: red Poria cocos is the red part of the sclerotia of Poria cocos. It is suitable for water dampness and stopping drinking, and is often compatible with Polyporus umbellatus and alisma orientalis.

4. White Poria cocos: White Poria cocos is the white part of Poria cocos sclerotia, which is good at invigorating the spleen. It is suitable for the syndrome of spleen deficiency and tiredness, eating less and loose stools, and is often compatible with Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala and licorice.

5. Poria God: Poria god is the small piece cut through the pine root in the sclerotia of Poria cocos, which is good at calming the heart and mind, suitable for restlessness, palpitation, insomnia and other syndrome. In order to strengthen the curative effect, it is often mixed with cinnabar, which is called Zhu Fushen or Zhu Yi Poria cocos.