Interpretation of the name is also called chicken head. Gorgonian stem in March leaves affixed to the water surface, larger than the lotus leaf, wrinkled, the leaf surface is green and the back of the purple, stems and leaves have thorns. Stems up to more than a zhang, also has a hole in the middle of the silk, young pair of peeling edible. In May and June, the purple flowers bloom, and when the flowers bloom, they face the sunlight and bracts, and the bracts have green thorns on them. The flowers are at the top of the bracts, also like a chicken's beak. When peeled, there is soft meat wrapped in seeds, white rice inside the shell, shaped like a fish eye. It ripens in July and August.

The taste is sweet, astringent, flat and non-toxic.

Effects and IndicationsThe main treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, lumbar back and knee pain. It tonifies the middle and strengthens qi, refreshes the spirit and strengthens the will, and makes the ears and eyes smart. Taken for a long time, it makes people lighter and less hungry. It can also help the stomach and tonify the kidneys, cure frequent urination, spermatorrhea, and purulent leucorrhoea. For powdered food, beneficial. But children should not eat more, not good for the spleen and stomach, it is difficult to digest.

Chicken head vegetable flavor taste sweet, astringent, flat, non-toxic.

Effects and IndicationsTo quench thirst, remove heat, raw and cooked are adaptable.

Root efficacy and main treatment of abdominal knot gas pain, then boiled food root.

Accompanying prescription chicken head porridge: benefit essence, strong will, benefit ears and eyes. With the chicken head fruit three, boiled and shelled, round-grained rice a porridge, every day on an empty stomach.

The treatment of excessive thinking and lust and damage to the heart gas, frequent urination, spermatorrhea, with the autumn stone, since the Poria powder, lotus meat, each of the two for the end, steamed jujube and into the size of a wu son of the pill, each time to serve thirty pills, fasting with salt soup to be served down. This formula is also called back to the essence of the pill.