The efficacy and contraindications of Gorgon Fruit

Gorgon fruit is the seed of Gorgon, also known as aquatic chicken head and prickly lotus seed. Gorgon fruit has the effects of stopping diarrhea and nourishing the spleen and stomach. In fact, the effects of Gorgon fruit are very similar to those of lotus seeds. Gorgon fruit can be used to make porridge, soup, or eaten together with lotus seeds. It is rich in nutrients, including protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, iron and phosphorus, but because of its strong astringency, it is not suitable as a staple food.

1. Gorgon fruit can treat nocturnal emission and spermatorrhea

One ounce each of minced chicken head meat, minced lotus stamen, dragon bone (grind separately), and black plum meat (roast and grind). Cook the above ingredients with yam paste and make them into balls as big as a chicken head. Take one pill each time, with warm wine or salt water, on an empty stomach.

2. Gorgon fruit can treat spermatorrhea

2 liang each of Astragalus membranaceus (fried), Euryale ferox (steamed), and Lotus stamen; 1 liang each of Dragon bone (roasted in butter) and Oyster (boiled in salt water for one day and one night, calcined into powder). Grind into powder, make into pills with lotus seed powder paste, and take with salt water.

3. Gorgon fruit treats frequent urination and spermatorrhea

Use 2 liang each of autumn stone, white poria, water chestnut and lotus seeds, and grind them into powder. Add steamed dates and make into balls as big as walnuts. Take 30 pills each time, on an empty stomach, with salt water. The name of this prescription is Sijing Pills.

4. Gorgon fruit treats leukorrhea

Use Euryale ferox powder and white Poria powder. Melt yellow wax and honey to make balls. As big as a walnut. Take 100 pills each time, with salt water. This prescription is Dianfenqing Pills. Can be eaten raw. But it tastes astringent and has little medicinal effect.

5. Gorgon fruit treats turbidity

Gorgon fruit powder, white poria powder. Mix yellow wax with honey and make pills the size of sycamore seeds. Take 100 pills each time, with salt water.

6. Gorgon fruit treats spleen and kidney deficiency, heat and chronic dysentery in the elderly and children

4 liang each of Gorgon fruit, yam, Poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, lotus seed, Coix seed, and white hyacinth bean, and 1 liang of ginseng. Fry them all and grind them into powder, then take with plain soup.

7. Others

Gorgon fruit is known as the "ginseng in water" and has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, benefiting the kidneys and consolidating essence. The principle of tonic is that it should be both nutritious and easy to digest and absorb. Gorgon fruit has this characteristic. Chinese medicine believes that "it is mild in nature, sweet and astringent in taste. It has the functions of tonifying the spleen and stopping diarrhea, benefiting the kidney and consolidating essence, removing dampness and stopping leukorrhea. It is used for nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, enuresis, frequent urination, spleen deficiency and chronic diarrhea, leukorrhea, and leukorrhea." It is extremely rich in carbohydrates and very little fat, so it is easily absorbed by the human body. Moreover, after the human body has been adjusted by taking Gorgon fruit, the digestive system will be able to adapt to taking other supplements.

8. Contraindications of using Gorgon Root as medicine:

Do not take this medicine if you have difficulty urinating or defecating; use with caution if you have indigestion.