Fu Ling Meadville PA

9-15g.

One known potential adverse effect of poria is epispasis, a kind of allergic reaction.(1)

Pachymic acid; Tumulosic acid; Trametenolic acid; Eburicoic acid; Dehydroeburicoic acid; Poricoic acid; b-amyrin acetate; Pachyman; Pachymaran; Glucan H11; Ergosterol; Caprylic acid; Undecanoic acid; Lauroic acid; Dodecenoic acid; Palmitic acid; Dodecenoate; Caprylate; Fumulosic acid methylester; Polyporenic acid C methylester; Pachymic acid methylester; 7, 9 (11)-dehydropachymic acid; 7, 9 (11)-dehydropachymic acid methylester; 3b-hydroxy-lanosta-7, 9 (11), 24-trein-21-oic acid; 3b-hydroxy-16a-acetyloxylanosta-7, 9 (11), 24-trien-21-oic acid; 3b-,16a-dihydroxylanosta-7, 9 (11), 24 (31)-trien-21-oic acid methylester.(2),(3),(4),(5),(6),(7),(8),(9)

Pachman is an anticarcinogen.(10) Administering pachman to mice (5mg/kg) by abdominal injection daily for ten consecutive days inhibits S180 with a 95% inhibition rate.(11)

Oral-feeding pachman to mice (250, 500, 1000mg/kg) daily for seven consecutive days enhances the phagocytic function of macrophage of both healthy and cancerous mice.(12)

Administering alcohol-based extract of this herb to rabbits at 0.5g/kg daily for five consecutive days shows a diuretic effect.(13),(14)

Administered at the dosages of 5, 10, 20g/kg, the water decoction of fushen, a variation of this herb (with pine roots growing into it), counteracts the caffeine-induced excitation in mice.(15)

Injecting poria injection into hamsters at 1.4g/kg daily for eight consecutive days can counteract carbon tetrachloride-induced liver damage.(16)

Experiments show that the 100% water decoction of this herb inhibits Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus coli, and Bacillus proteus.(17)