What is Zhu Ling?
Zhu Ling (scientific name: Polyporus umbellatus (Pers.) Fr. ), which is also called
Polyporus umbellatus or
grifola frondosa, is a perennial fungus belonging to Polyporaceae. Buried underground, it presents irregular blocks. The surface of the sclerotium is white, gray and black. The sclerotium is divided into epidermis and medulla. The medulla is formed by the adhesion and interweaving of hyphae. The fruiting body is composed of reproductive hyphae, skeleton hyphae and contact hyphae. The cap is white and round, with an umbilicus in the middle, and a light yellow fibrous layer that is scale-like and radial. It feels soft and plush to the touch. The size of the fruiting body is related to the size of the sclerotium hidden underground. Short rod-shaped, smooth, transparent and colorless, terminal with tetraspores. Spores are oval, smooth and colorless.
Polyporus umbellatus
Polyporus umbellatus is sweet in nature, light and flat in taste. Return kidney, urinary bladder channel. Mainly diuretic, enhance immune function, anti-tumor, anti-liver damage, antibacterial and other effects.
Types of Zhu Ling
Bai Ling
The skin is milky white, thin and tender, inelastic, soft and easy to rot. It is attached to the epidermis of Hei Ling or Bai Ling, and depends on the mother's body for nutrition. No reproductive ability, can not do seed. basis of production. It mostly appears in summer and autumn, and it is strictly forbidden to turn over the nest and trample on it.
Hui Ling
The skin is gray-black or gray-brown, elastic and tough, and the cross-section is white. It is suitable for making Seed Ling.
Hei Ling
Black or brownish black, without jet black luster, elastic when pinched.
Growth environment of Zhu Ling
Zhuling is distributed in Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia and Northeast China. Mainly produced in Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Sichuan, and Yunnan. It is also produced in Gansu, Qinghai, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hubei and other places. The output in Shaanxi and Yunnan is larger, and the quality of those in Shaanxi is the best.
Zhuling grows in slope mountainous areas at an altitude of 500-1500 meters, in wild forests on slopes that are half shade and half sunny, and grows under shallow soil with irregular leaves and impurities. It likes humid wild forests in cool areas.
Processing methods of Zhu Ling
Collection and processing
Zhu Ling is a perennial crop. Generally, it will not produce high yields within 1-2 years, and the peak period of reproduction is from the third year onwards. During the harvesting process, it should be noted that all the sclerotia on the surface soil layer can be harvested, preferably in summer; if the sclerotia of Polyporus polyporus is black, it can be judged as old sclerotia, which belongs to commercial Polyporus polyporus It is also the first or second generation polyporus polyporus. If the color is taupe and the nucleus is soft, it can be identified as a seed nucleus.
Processing method
After digging, remove the mud and sand and dry it in the sun. Put it in a dry and ventilated place.
Zhu Ling TCM
Medicine part
The dry sclerotia of polyporaceae plant Polyporus.
Taste
Sweet and light, flat.
Tropism
Return spleen, kidney, urinary bladder channel.
Effect
Diuretic and damp.
Attending
Control dysuria, edema and fullness, beriberi, diarrhea, stranguria, turbidity, leukorrhea.
① "The Classic": "Mainly treat malaria, benefit waterways."
② "Medicine Properties": "Relieves typhoid fever, severe fever, sweating, main swelling, and acute pain in the abdomen."
③ "pearl sac": "seepage, quench thirst, and treat stranguria."
④ "Medical Qiyuan": "Dryness and dehumidification. "Secrets of Indications" says, go to the heart and regret."
⑤ "Introduction to Medicine": "Treating heat stroke and quenching thirst."
⑥ "Compendium": "open interstitial stranguria, cure stranguria, swelling, beriberi, white turbidity, leukorrhea, stranguria during pregnancy, dysuria."
Medicinal properties
Zhu Ling is a dry irregular long block or nearly round block, ranging in size and thickness, and the long shape is more curved or branched like ginger, about 10-25 cm long, 3-8 cm in diameter, round block The diameter is about 3 to 7 cm. The outer surface is gray-black or brown-black, with tumor-like protrusions and obvious wrinkles on the whole. The quality is firm but not substantial, as light as cork, the cross-section is delicate, white or light brown, slightly granular. No gas, light taste. It is better to be big, with dark brown skin, pink and white flesh, and heavier.
Dosage
Oral administration: decoction, 2-4 qian; or into pills, powdered.
Notice
Contraindicated for those who are anhydrous and wet.
① "Medical Qiyuan": "Polyporus light infiltration, body fluid due to dryness, do not take if there is no dampness syndrome."
② "Introduction to Medicine": "People with dampness and kidney deficiency should avoid it."
③ "Depei Materia Medica": "Dizziness, thirst without dampness, both are forbidden."
Related discussion
① "Materia Medica Yanyi": "Polyporus has a lot of power to move water, and if taken for a long time, it will damage the kidney qi and faint the eyes."
② "Medicine Heart Method": "Porcini, bitter to relieve stagnation, sweet to help Yang, light to benefit orifices, so it can dehumidify and facilitate urination."
③ "Compendium": "Polyporus is light infiltrated, the qi rises and can fall, so it can open the interstitial space and facilitate urination, and has the same function as Poria, but it is not as good as Fuqin when used as a tonic."
Zhu Ling benefits
Light penetration and dampness
Zhu Ling are commonly used to improve edema. Polyporus polysaccharides contained in it can inhibit staphylococcus, that is, it has anti-inflammatory effects. However, polyporus is generally not only used as a single herbal medicine in clinical practice, but has the effect of reducing osmosis and promoting dampness.
Diuretic
Zhu Ling contains some protein and polypeptide substances, which can improve symptoms such as dysuria. When treating a disease, it is necessary to ask a doctor to add or subtract the prescription, and use it with other medicinal materials to have a diuretic effect.
Tonglin and diarrhea
Zhu Ling can be used for stranguria, leukorrhagia, gonorrhea, white turbidity, etc. It can be used with other medicines to enhance the effect of reducing dampness and diuresis, clearing stranguria and purging turbidity.
Zhu Ling side effects
The side effects of Zhu Ling are:
1. Zhu Ling may cause voiding symptoms.
2. Zhu Ling may cause dry mouth and upset.
3. Zhu Ling may produce some digestive symptoms, such as nausea and vomiting.
How to take Zhu Ling?
Powder
Take an appropriate amount of Zhu Ling, barley, flour, and sugar, grind these ingredients into fine powder, press them into cakes, steam them, and eat them. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach.
Soup
Proper amount of Zhu Ling, Chinese yam, and grain malt, cooked together with fresh chicken gizzards and dried chicken gizzards, can relieve the symptoms of loss of appetite and indigestion in children.
Zhu Ling Soup
Cooking: 9 grams each of Zhu Ling (peeled), Poria, Alisma, Ejiao, and talc (crushed). Boil the four flavors with 800ml of water first, take 400ml, remove the body fluid, add donkey-hide gelatin to dissolve, and take it warm twice.
Function: Treat Yangming disease with floating and feverish pulse, thirsty for drinking water, difficulty urinating; Shaoyin disease for six or seven days, coughing and vomiting, upset and insomnia; general treatment of damp-heat jaundice, thirsty and drowning.
Zhu Ling Carp Soup
Ingredients: 500 grams of crucian carp Accessories: 30 grams of Polyporus umbellatus, 30 grams of wax gourd skin Seasoning: 5 grams of ginger, 5 grams of salt, 2 grams of monosodium glutamate
Cooking: Kill crucian carp alive, remove phosphorus, gills and viscera, wash; wash pig ling, winter melon skin, ginger; put all ingredients into the pot together, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, simmer for three hours, Season to taste.
Functions: invigorating the spleen and expelling dampness, diuresis and detumescence; liver cirrhosis, ascites, and dystrophic edema belong to those with spleen deficiency and internal stop of water dampness. Symptoms include emaciation, fatigue, lack of food, poor urination, mild ascites, or lower limb edema, or skin jaundice; people with cirrhosis and ascites with cold and dampness should not drink this soup.
Made into pill
Zhu Ling San
Composition: Zhu Ling, Poria cocos, and Atractylodes macrocephala in equal parts.
Usage: Shang Sanwei, pestle for powder. 6 grams each time, mixed with warm water, three times a day.
Function: invigorating the spleen and diuresis.
Indications: Vomiting, stop drinking on the diaphragm, desire to drink after vomiting.
Cook
Zhu Ling Shredded Pork
Ingredients: 250 grams of Zhu Ling, 150 grams of shredded pork tenderloin, chopped green onion, minced ginger, cooking wine, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, vegetable oil, etc.
Cooking: Put the pork belly into a boiling water pot and blanch thoroughly, remove and rinse with clean water, squeeze out the water, wash and shred the pork tenderloin. Heat up the oil pan, add shredded pork and stir-fry until the water dries up, add soy sauce and stir-fry, add green onion and ginger and stir-fry until cooked, add cooking wine, refined salt, and pig lings, stir-fry until tasty, add monosodium glutamate, and serve in the pan Plate and serve.
Zhu Ling Shredded Pork has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing the middle and replenishing qi. Ordinary people's regular food can strengthen the body and eliminate evil, make the body stronger and less sick.
How to choose Zhu Ling?
Genuine Zhu Ling
Zhu Ling is a dry irregular long block or nearly round block, ranging in size and thickness, the long one is more curved or branched, and the long one looks like ginger, about 10-25 cm long and 3-8 cm in diameter. The diameter of the round block is about 3-7 cm, the outer surface is gray-black or brown-black, and the whole has tumor-like protrusions and obvious wrinkles; the texture is firm but not solid, as light as cork, and the cross-section is delicate, white or light brown, slightly Granular, after being sliced into water, the water absorption speed is slow; there is no smell, and the taste is light.
Counterfeit Zhu Ling
The appearance is very similar to the real product, but the surface is off-white, smooth, without tumor-like protrusions and wrinkles; the texture is tough and difficult to break, but it is easy to tear; the section is not neat, and the slices will quickly absorb water and swell when placed in water, the taste is light.
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