The Gorgon fruit, also known as chicken head rice, is considered to be sweet and astringent in flavor and flat in nature by traditional Chinese medicine. Gorgon fruit belongs to the aquatic plant water lily family of the mature seed kernel, is a famous medicinal and food ingredients. Gorgon fruit is ovoid or round, the outer membrane of the seed kernel is brown and astringent in flavor. The dark brown is the color of the skin of the Gorgonzola rice, and after removing the skin, the inside is powdery white, which should be stewed slowly over low heat to have a better taste. In the choice of gravy, yellow is "tender" gravy color, easy to cook. No moldy smell, choose the best gravy without sour smell, no sulfur smell. Gorgon fruit to complete particles, full and uniform, broken surface color white powder sex enough, no debris, mud miscellaneous, dry texture without moth is good. A variety of gorgonians, south gorgonians for the best, remove the inner seed skin of white gorgonians is better than not to remove the inner seed skin of red gorgonians.

Gorgonberry kernel white clean, glutinous flavor, easy to cook soft. Chinese medicine is often used to play the spleen, stomach, kidney and essence of the therapeutic effect. Apply to chronic diarrhea and frequent urination, dreaming and spermatorrhea, women with a lot of lumbago and other symptoms. Chinese medicine health science that, Gorgon fruit anti-aging life extension, the most beneficial to the spleen and stomach. Such as "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" said: "Gorgon fruit can be complementary, beneficial to the essence of gas, strong will, people's ears, eyes and eyes, long service light body not hungry, old age resistance." According to modern research, Gorgon fruit contains a large number of sugars. Protein, fat, dietary fiber, and a variety of vitamins and trace elements, these substances play an important role in maintaining human health and energy metabolism. Thousands of years of therapeutic experience has proved that Gorgon fruit is indeed a good medicine for health care. Song Dynasty great writer Su Dongpo to old age is still fit and strong, rosy cheeks, quick-witted. According to his self-explanation in the book, mainly due to decades of adherence to daily consumption of boiled Gorgon fruit, and thus the waist and legs, walking strong. Gorgon fruit is rich in D Vitamin B12. with Gorgon fruit and lean meat with food, you can make lean meat in the folic acid and vitamin B12 to promote the absorption of each other, on the alleviation and prevention of megaloblastic anemia, headache, nervousness, arthralgia, lumbar and leg pain and other symptoms of weakness has a great deal of good.

Eating gorgonzola can also assist in the treatment of frequent urination of the elderly. Elderly people often have frequent urination, urinary urgency, urinary incontinence and other problems appear, often moderate consumption of fructus cornutum, can significantly improve these embarrassing conditions. The reason why advocate in the fall eating Gorgon fruit, the significance is that it can be adjusted by the hot summer consumption of the spleen and stomach function, spleen and stomach after enrichment, and then eat more tonic or difficult to digest tonic, the body can adapt to the winter tonic, the body will be beneficial to the body. Gorgon fruit is also obvious solid astringent dampness, generally used for often loose stools or men often spermatorrhea. Gorgon fruit also contains more dietary fiber and glucan, with auxiliary sugar and lipid-lowering effect.

Gorgon fruit is used in diet, mostly as desserts and porridge, such as ice sugar silver ear stewed gorgon fruit, honey steamed gorgon fruit, glutinous rice and red dates gorgon fruit porridge and so on. Gorgon fruit has a very good digestive, spleen and stomach effect, for people with indigestion, with gorgon fruit and yam and other boiled into a paste, can play a therapeutic health effects. Help dyspepsia of gravy paste practice: 500 grams of gravy, 500 grams of dry Chinese yam, 500 grams of glutinous rice flour, 100 grams of sugar. The gorgonian, yam together dry, crushed into fine powder, and glutinous rice flour and sugar and mix evenly, standby. Daily take three or four tablespoons of mixed powder, add cold water into a thin paste, and then heated and cooked that is into the gorgonian yam paste. Boil hot in the morning and evening and eat on an empty stomach. Each time with 50 to 100 grams of mixed powder, even 7 to 10 days for a course of treatment, you can receive good health effects.