Alias chicken head rice, chicken head seeds, wild chicken head, southern gorgonian, northern gorgonian.

Morphological features annual aquatic herb. With white fibrous roots and inconspicuous stems. Primary leaves submerged, arrow-shaped; later leaves floating on the water surface, rounded, 65-130 cm in diameter, wrinkled adaxially, purple on the reverse side, spiny on both sides; petiole borne in the center of the leaf bottom. Flowers bright purplish-red, flat at the surface of the water, opening day and closing night. Berry spiny, like a chicken head. Seeds spherical, black, hard, containing white powdery endosperm. Seeds collected in the fall, dried and shelled kernels for medicine.

Growing environment in most parts of China have distribution. Born in swamps and lakes, there are cultivated.

Effective taste sweet, astringent, flat. Fixing the kidney and astringent essence, tonifying the spleen and stopping diarrhea, stopping the belt.

Selected First Formula: 30 grams of fresh Gorgon fruit root, 1 spoon each of honey, egg white and sesame oil.

Use: decoct the root of Gorgon fruit in water, remove the dregs, add honey and other 3 flavors, take the heat.

Treatment: Difficult labor. The second formula: gorgonian root appropriate amount.

Use: slice, boil, dip in spices, vinegar and eat.

Treatment: inguinal hernia. Third Party: 15 grams of Gorgon fruit, 20 grams of lotus seed (remove the heart), 18 grams of yam, 15 grams of Coix seed rice.

Use: add water and boil, add sugar, even the residue of 2 times.

Treatment: spleen deficiency and prolonged diarrhea. The fourth formula: 15 grams of Gorgon fruit, 6 grams of lotus seed, 30 grams of golden cherry.

Use: water decoction in 2 doses, 1 dose per day.

Treatments: dreaming and spermatorrhea. Fifth formula: 15 grams of Gorgon fruit, 6 grams of white fruit, 5 grams of plantain, 10 grams of tendon grass.

Use: Decoction with water, 1 dose daily.

Treatment: damp-heat under the belt. Sixth formula: half a catty of Gorgon fruit root, a chicken.

Use: remove the chicken and internal organs, add water **** stew, remove the dregs, add spices, eat chicken and drink soup.

Treatment: excessive leucorrhea due to weakness of the spleen and kidney. Seventh formula: 30 grams of Gorgon fruit, 10 white fruits, 30 grams of glutinous rice.

Use: *** cook porridge to eat, 1 time a day, 10 days for 1 course of treatment, intermittent service 2 to 4 courses.

Treatment: chronic nephritis proteinuria.