FU LING

By: Joe Hing Kwok Chu

Other name: yun ling, bai fu ling, fang ling kuai    

Japanese Pronunciation:  bukuryo

Korean Pronunciation: pongnyong

Cantonese Pronunciation: fook leng

Where grown: Hubei, Anbhui, Henan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan provinces of China

Pharmaceutical name:Sclerotium Poriae Cocos

Latin botanical name: Poria Cocos (Schw.) Wolf

Common Name: poria, sclerotium of tuckahoe, china root, hoelen

Characteristics and channel (meridian) relation: heart, spleen, lung channel

Chemical ingredients:  pachymose 84.2%, albuninoid 0.68%, fiber 2.84%, pachymaran (3),  b-pachyman,  b-pachymanase, pachymic acid, tumulosic acid,eburioic acid, pinicolic acid,  3 b-hydroxy lanosta-7, 9 (11), poricoic acid A (16 a-hydroxy-3, 4-secolanosta-4 (28), 7, 0 (11),  24-trien-21-oic acid, poricoic acid B (16 a-hydroxy-2, 4-secolanosa-4 (28), 7, 9 (11), 24-tetraen-3, 21-dioic acid) (8),  Fatty acid:caprylic acid, undecanoic acid, lauric acid, dodecenole acid, palmitic acid. Others: ergosterol, gum, histadine, choline, chitin, protein, fats, glucose, sterols, histaminies, lecithin,  lipase, choline, adenine. Other non organic items: SiO2, Mg, P, Fe, Ca, S, Na, K, Mn, Cl. 

Medical Functions: diuretics, tranquilizing effect, relaxing effect on smooth muscles, reducing plasma glucose.

Uses: as diuretics, in urinary difficulty, diarrhea, water retention, bixu with water retention. Urination difficulty due to damp heat. Bixu with mucus production and headache, dizziness, palpitations, with think greasy tongue coating. Palpitation, insomnia or forgetfulness, loss of appetite. 

Note: Balance with other herbs in case yinxu condition.

Fu shen is the part around the root. Usually it is used as fu ling but considered as a stronger effect on calming emotion.

Today's Usage: 

1.Edema

2. Tumors: Fu ling compound was used on 70 different type of tumors. Some cases only fu ling was used and in some cases fu ling was used with chemo therapy, or radiation therapy or surgery. It showed that fu ling can strengthen the body, improve body weight, improve appetite, lessen or prevent side effect of chemo therapy, protect bone marrow, improve liver and kidney functions, improve radiation therapy on nose and throat cancers. (2)

3. Infant diarrhea

4. Improve schizoid condition

5. Improve liver function

Bibliography

Last update: 12/24/99  writing in progress

 

By: Joe Hing Kwok Chu

Other name: yun ling, bai fu ling, fang ling kuai    

Japanese Pronunciation:  bukuryo

Korean Pronunciation: pongnyong

Cantonese Pronunciation: fook leng

Where grown: Hubei, Anbhui, Henan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan provinces of China

Pharmaceutical name:Sclerotium Poriae Cocos

Latin botanical name: Poria Cocos (Schw.) Wolf

Common Name: poria, sclerotium of tuckahoe, china root, hoelen

Characteristics and channel (meridian) relation: heart, spleen, lung channel

Chemical ingredients:  pachymose 84.2%, albuninoid 0.68%, fiber 2.84%, pachymaran (3),  b-pachyman,  b-pachymanase, pachymic acid, tumulosic acid,eburioic acid, pinicolic acid,  3 b-hydroxy lanosta-7, 9 (11), poricoic acid A (16 a-hydroxy-3, 4-secolanosta-4 (28), 7, 0 (11),  24-trien-21-oic acid, poricoic acid B (16 a-hydroxy-2, 4-secolanosa-4 (28), 7, 9 (11), 24-tetraen-3, 21-dioic acid) (8),  Fatty acid:caprylic acid, undecanoic acid, lauric acid, dodecenole acid, palmitic acid. Others: ergosterol, gum, histadine, choline, chitin, protein, fats, glucose, sterols, histaminies, lecithin,  lipase, choline, adenine. Other non organic items: SiO2, Mg, P, Fe, Ca, S, Na, K, Mn, Cl. 

Medical Functions: diuretics, tranquilizing effect, relaxing effect on smooth muscles, reducing plasma glucose.

Uses: as diuretics, in urinary difficulty, diarrhea, water retention, bixu with water retention. Urination difficulty due to damp heat. Bixu with mucus production and headache, dizziness, palpitations, with think greasy tongue coating. Palpitation, insomnia or forgetfulness, loss of appetite. 

Note: Balance with other herbs in case yinxu condition.

Fu shen is the part around the root. Usually it is used as fu ling but considered as a stronger effect on calming emotion.

Today's Usage: 

1.Edema

2. Tumors: Fu ling compound was used on 70 different type of tumors. Some cases only fu ling was used and in some cases fu ling was used with chemo therapy, or radiation therapy or surgery. It showed that fu ling can strengthen the body, improve body weight, improve appetite, lessen or prevent side effect of chemo therapy, protect bone marrow, improve liver and kidney functions, improve radiation therapy on nose and throat cancers. (2)

3. Infant diarrhea

4. Improve schizod condition

5. Improve liver function

Bibliography

Last update: 12/24/99  writing in progress