Umbellate
Pore-Fungus (zhu ling)
Polyporus
Umbellatus
Properties:
This herb is sweet and tasteless in flavour, neutral in
nature. It acts on the kidney and urinary bladder
channels. It has stronger effect of diuresis and excreting
dampness to alleviate edema than poria but without
tonifying effect. For edema and dysuria due to deficiency
of Qi and Yang, this herb is often used in combination
with medicines for supplementing Qi and warming Yang, to
treat both the principal and the secondary aspects of
diseases.
Effects:
Inducing diuresis and
excreting dampness.
Indications:
This herb is often used in
combination with astragalus root, white atractylodes
rhizome, prepared aconite root, poria and other herbs for
supplementing Qi, warming Yang, inducing diuresis and
alleviating edema, to treat edema and dysuria caused by
deficiency of Qi and Yang; with atractylodes rhizome,
poria, tangerine peel and other herbs for eliminating
dampness, strengthening the spleen and arresting diarrhea,
to treat diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and excessive
dampness; and with yam rhizome, poria and other herbs for
eliminating turbid urine, inducing diuresis and treating
stranguria, to treat stranguria with turbid urine and
leukorrhagia caused by downward flow of dampness.
Dosage
and Administration: 5-10g.
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