Fu ling

Chinese name: Fu ling

Hesperian name: Poria,Tuckahoe, Tuckahoe sclerotium

Use in Chinese medicine: Fu ling is collected between July and September. The fu ling with reddish inner side of the superficial layer is called red fu ling and the fu ling with white inner side of the superficial layer is called white fu ling. The fu ling produced in Yunnan Province is famous and therefore the drug is also called Yunnan fu ling Yunling). After collection, it is dried in shade, sliced, and used unprepared.

Property: Sweet and tasteless in flavour, neutral in property, acting on the heart, spleen and kidney channels.

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Effects: Inducing diuresis, excreting dampness, invigorating the spleen, replenishing the middle-jiao, and tranquilizing the mind.

Used for: 1. For dysuria, edema, phlegm retention and others due to retention of waterdwithin the body, itis often used withumbellate pore anddwater-plantain tuber,as in Powder of Five Drugs Including Fu ling (Wuling San). Since fu ling is neutral inproperty, it can be used for damp-heat and cold-damp syndromes in combination withother drugs. In cases of damp-heat syndrome, it is often used with plantain seed and manshurian aris-tolochia stem; or cold-damp syndrome, it is usually used withlateral root of acon-ite and dried ginger; for dizziness, palpi-tation, cough, and so on due to retention of phlegm, it is often used with cinnamon twig and white atrac-tylodes, as in Decoction of Fu ling, Cinnamon Twig, Atractylodes and Licorice (Ling GuiZhu Gan Tang).

2. For lassitude, anorexia and loose stool due to deficiency of the spleen, it is always used with dangshen, white atractylodes and licorice, known as Decoction of Four Noble Drugs (Sijinzi Tang).

3. For fright palpitation and insomnia due to insufficiency of the spleen and heart, it is often used with dangshen,longan aril and wild jujube seed, asin Decoction for invigorating the spleen and nourishing the heart (Guipi Tang). For fright palpitation and insomnia due to phlegm retention in the interior or due to breakdown of the physiological coordination between the heart and kidney, it is often used with grass-leaved sweetflag and polygala root, as in Sedative Bolus(Anshen Dingzhi Wan).

Dosage and administration: 10-15g, decocted in water for an oral dose.

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