Gorgon fruit, also known as: chicken head rice, chicken head lotus, chicken head lotus, prickly lotus root, false lotus root, Hunan root, Latin name: Euryale ferox. water lily family, gorgonian plant gorgonian seed kernel. According to historical data, gorgonian first appeared in the "Shennong Ben Cao Jing", is regarded as a life-prolonging product, that it has a "tonic, in addition to the summer disease, beneficial to the essence of Qi, strong will, so that the ears and eyes smart" and other functions.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" that gorgonberry can "quench thirst and benefit the kidney, treatment of urinary incontinence, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, with lower". Modern research shows that gorgonians contain a lot of beneficial nutrients, such as protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins B1, B2, C, crude fiber, carotene, etc., and easy to digest.

Divided into two kinds of raw and fried:

Raw Gorgon fruit is mainly used to tonify the kidneys, and is available in the market and online. While fried Gorgon fruit is mainly to strengthen the spleen and stomach. Fried Gorgon fruit is generally available in pharmacies, spleen, astringent, dry products, because of frying, to add wheat bran, and master a certain fire, home production is not convenient. The price of gorgonians, the general quality of gorgonians is cheaper.

The top quality ones are more expensive, and the wholesale price is even cheaper. Because of the quality problems of many agricultural products in previous years, so we should pay attention to buy gravy to buy no pesticide residues, no metal residues of the gravy, this kind of gravy is generally best to buy in a formal pharmacy, so that it can be safe and secure consumption.