Fulingpi, Chinese medicine name. It is distributed in Jilin, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Henan, Hubei, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan. Fulingpi is mainly used for promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. It is used for edema with water retention and difficulty in urination. Fulingpi is the outer skin of the fungus Fuling mushroom of the Polyporaceae family.
【Original Form of Fulingpi】
The fungus core is spherical, oval, elliptical, or irregularly shaped, measuring 10-30 cm or longer, and varying in weight from 500-5000g. It has a thick and wrinkled outer skin, dark brown in color, and becomes hard after drying.
The inner part is white or light pink in color, in the form of powder grains. The fruiting body grows on the surface of the fungus core, flat and fleshy, with a thickness of 3-8 cm. It is white when fresh and turns light brown when old or dry. The tubes are densely arranged, with thin walls, circular, polygonal, or irregular in shape, with a diameter of 0.5-1.5 cm, and the edge of the tube opening splits into tooth-like shapes.
【Efficacy and Functions of Fulingpi】
Fulingpi is mainly used for promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. It is used for edema with water retention and difficulty in urination.
① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Used for edema and swelling, opening the water channels and the pores."
② "Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet": "Eliminates water from the skin."
【Compound Formulas of Fulingpi】
① Treatment of edema: Fulingpi and Jiaomu, regardless of the amount. Boil and drink as a soup. ("Experienced Recipes")
② Treatment of stagnation in the spleen and stomach in men and women, with swelling in the head, face, and limbs, distension in the chest and abdomen, shortness of breath, stuffiness in the chest, phlegm and saliva retention, inability to eat, and rapid walking resembling water disease: Ginger peel, Mulberry white bark, Chenju peel, Dafu peel, and Fulingpi in equal parts. Grind them into coarse powder.
Take three qian (9 grams) per dose, half a bowl of water, simmer until 80% cooked, remove the dregs, no need to consider the time, and take it warm. Avoid raw, cold, greasy, and hard food. ("Five Peel Powder" from "The Tibetan Classics")
