Gorgonian is an astringent herb, the dried mature seed kernel of Gorgon, a plant of the Water Lily family.

Gorgon fruit is sweet, astringent and flat in nature. It belongs to the spleen and kidney meridians.

Gorgon fruit is sweet, tonifying and astringent, flat and unbiased, and enters the spleen and kidney meridians, with calm medicinal power. It can replenish the spleen and dispel dampness, benefit the kidney and fix the essence, have the complementary and not greasy, astringent and not retain the wet long, the main treatment of spleen deficiency and diarrhea and kidney deficiency of the lower yuan is not solid evidence.

This product contains starch, protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, ascorbic acid and other ingredients, with the benefit of the kidney and fixing the essence, nourishing the spleen to stop diarrhea, removing the dampness and stopping the efficacy of the belt.

Physiological Characteristics:

Annual large aquatic herb. Submerged leaves arrow-shaped or elliptic reniform, 4-10 centimeters long, unarmed on both sides; petiole unarmed; floating leaves leathery, elliptic reniform to rounded, 10-130 centimeters in diameter, peltate, with or without curved notches, entire, purplish underneath, pubescent, sharp spines on both sides at the vein branches; petiole and pedicel stout, up to 25 centimeters long, both with stiff spines.

Flowers about 5 cm long; sepals lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm long, purple inside, outside densely slightly curved stiff spines; petals rectangular-orbicular lanceolate or lanceolate, 1.5-2 cm long, purplish-red, arranged in several whorls, tapering inward into stamens; no style, stigma red, into a concave stigma disk.

Berry globose, 3-5 cm in diam., purplish red, outside densely covered with hard spines; seeds globose, more than 10 mm in diam. Flowering in July-August, fruiting in August-September.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Gorgon fruit