Fu Shen Slices (Poria cocos with Hostwood) — Dried TCM Herb for Calming Tea & Soup

Fu Shen Slices (Poria cocos with hostwood) are the dried, hostwood-bearing sclerotium slices of a highly revered traditional herb known in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as Fú Shén (茯神). Also called Yun Shen or Fu Shen Pian, this large-block sliced form is prized as a spirit-settling, heart-calming herb traditionally used to ease restlessness, palpitations, and disturbed sleep. Its nature is sweet, bland, and neutral, making it a gentle yet profoundly grounding herb for anchoring the spirit and harmonizing the Heart and Spleen.

Key Selling Points

• Traditional spirit-settling herb with hostwood
• Large-block Fu Shen slices, new-crop stock
• Sulfur-free, no sulfur fumigation
• Direct from origin, food-herb agricultural product
• Suitable for calming teas, soups, and decoctions

Quality & Sensory

Each batch is carefully cut into substantial block slices that preserve the pale ivory-to-cream color of the Poria body and the darker hostwood core running through it. The texture is firm, dense, and slightly chalky to the touch, with a faint, clean earthy aroma. When decocted or simmered, the slices soften and yield a mild, subtly sweet and bland infusion that carries a gentle woody note from the embedded hostwood, adding quiet depth to broths and teas without overpowering other ingredients.

Technical Specifications

Usage Scenarios

• Calming herbal tea blends
• Chinese-style soup and broth
• Congee and grain porridge
• Traditional decoction formulas
• Seasonal slow-cooking with other food herbs

Traditional Uses

In folk herbal practice, Fu Shen is decocted into soups, congee, and calming tonics to settle the spirit and support restful sleep. It is a classic ingredient in traditional formulas paired with ingredients like longan aril, jujube seed, lily bulb, and lotus seed, and is often simmered into evening broths or brewed as a daily tea for quiet, grounded nourishment. As a food-herb agricultural product, it is also added to medicinal food soup packs for gentle, everyday wellness support.

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