What does Fushen look like, and what are its effects and functions?
Perhaps everyone has heard of Fuling, but not many people know much about Fushen. Fushen is actually a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, and it can calm the mind, regulate the human immune system, and have other effects and functions. Today, the editor will mainly help everyone learn about the effects and functions of Fushen.
What is Fushen?
Fushen is a type of plant in the Polyporaceae family. After Fushen is dried, the form of its sclerotium is almost the same as that of Fuling, with a pine root running through the middle. It is obtained by taking Fuling, cutting away the white Fuling, selecting the part of the Fuling that encloses a pine root, removing impurities, then sun-drying it, and harvesting and storing it. Fushen usually parasitizes the roots of plants in the Pinaceae family, such as masson pine. When used as medicine, Fushen is generally cut into square thin slices, is relatively solid in texture, and has powder. After cutting, the pine root appears brownish-yellow. The best quality is thick flesh with a small pine root.
The effects and functions of Fushen
Fushen is sweet and bland in nature and flavor, and is generally mainly used to treat diffusing dampness, strengthening the spleen and stomach, calming the mind, and soothing the heart. It can treat excessive phlegm, edema, difficult urination, diarrhea, palpitations, dizziness, and so on.
Usage: Take it internally, using 3 to 5 qian of Fushen, decocted in water and taken as a soup, or used in pill form.
Common formula: 100 grams of peeled Fushen and 25 grams of Chenxiang, ground into a fine powder and then made into pills. Take thirty pills each time. It mainly treats symptoms such as mental confusion.
Fushen can treat heart deficiency and insufficient blood
Usage: Ginseng with the reed head removed, Fushen with the wood removed, Huangqi honey-fried, prepared dried rehmannia, danggui, and suanzaoren with the skin removed and stir-fried, and zhusha in equal parts, ground into a fine powder and made into pills. Take thirty pills each time, swallowed with decocted ginseng soup.
Fushen can nourish the heart and calm the mind
Fushen is neutral in nature and slightly warm, and can enter the heart meridian to calm the mind. For conditions such as weak heart qi, mental confusion and palpitations, insomnia and frequent dreaming, sallow complexion, and poor appetite, Fushen is often used for treatment.
Fushen has the effect of tonifying deficiency and treating fatigue
For those with deficiency of both the heart and spleen, or symptoms such as fatigue, overthinking, or chronic bleeding, Fushen can be used for treatment.
Fushen treats rheumatic bone pain
For some middle-aged and elderly people suffering from rheumatic bone pain, the traditional Chinese medicine Fushen can be used for conditioning and treatment.
Fushen can regulate the endocrine system and clear the intestines
Fushen can effectively regulate endocrine disorders in the human body, and can also effectively relieve conditions such as intestinal constipation. Especially for those with long-term indigestion and severe constipation, the effect is very obvious.
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