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茯苓 Fuling
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Chinese Name |
茯苓 |
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Chinese Pinyin |
Fuling |
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English Name |
Indian Buead
Tuckahoe |
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Latin Pharmaceutical Name |
Poria |
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Category |
Seaweeds and fungi |
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Origin |
The dried sclerotium of Poria cocos (Schw.) Wolf (Polyporaceae) |
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Production Regions |
Primarily produced in the Chinese provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang. |
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Macroscopic Features |
Sclerotium is an irregular lump, spherical, flat, elliptical or long oval shaped, uneven sized, small one is similar to a fist, larger one has diameter about 20~30cm, or even larger. Externally grayish-brown or black-brown, tumor-like wrinkles, inside is white and slightly pink, composed of numerous mycelia threads. Sporocarp is umbrella-like, 0.5~2mm. Edge has small teeth. Gamobium is not easy to see, but is cell-like and often is found in the outer skin of the sclerotium; white at early stage, then gradually turn into brown in polygon shape; basidium is bat-like, spore is oval to cylindrical and slightly curved, with one pointy end, smooth and colorless. Distinctive odor. |
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Quality Requirements |
Superior medicinal material is heavy and firm, outer skin is brown with thin wrinkles, without cracks, fractured surface is white and smooth, very sticky to teeth. |
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Properties |
Sweet, tasteless; neutral |
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Functions |
Promotes urination, leaches out dampness, fortifies the spleen and stomach, calms spirit. Apply to dysuria, edema, phlegm and retained fluid and cough, vomiting, less intake due to deficiency of spleen, diarrhea, and fright and nervous, insomnia and amnesia, spermatorrhea and gonorrhea. |
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Processed Form |
‘Fu ling pi’: this refers to the outer skin of Fu ling, long strips with uneven size, relatively loose and soft texture, with flexibility; promotes urination.
‘Chi fu ling’: this refers to the portion near the outer skin of fu ling ge(whole poria), which has a pale reddish color.
‘Bai fuling’: this refers to the white-colored portion os fu ling that remains after the chi fu ling is removed from whole pieces of poria.
‘Fu shen mu’: this refers to the pine root at the center of fu shen. |
| Link |
 Chinese Medicinal Formula Images Database
Chinese Medicine Specimen Database
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Permanent URL：https://sys01.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/cmed/mmid/detail.php?pid=B00356 |
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