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Latin pharmacognostic name: Poria Alba

Alternate English names: white hoelen white tuckahoe

Kingdom: Plant

Origin in PRC Pharmacopoeia: Poria cocos (Schw.) Wolf. [= Pachyma hoelen Rumph]. (PRC Pharmacopoeia)

Origin (other sources): Poria cocos (Schw.) Wolf [= Pachyma hoelen Rumph]

Use: Medicinal

Category:

Properties: Sweet; balanced.

Indications:

Fortifies the spleen and supplements the center.

spleen qì vacuity with fatigue and poor appetite.

Notes: White poria is the central core of the sclerotium as opposed to red poria 赤茯苓, the pinkish part just beneath the skin.

See also: Fú líng (茯苓 Poria , poria)

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