The efficacy of yam and Euryale ferox porridge

How much do you know about the effects of Chinese yam and Euryale ferox porridge? In fact, this porridge has many effects.

①Treatment of dream and spermatorrhea:

Chicken head minced meat, lotus stamen powder, dragon bone (grind separately), black plum meat (dry and grind) each 1 liang. Boil the above ingredients with yam paste to make pills as big as chicken head. Take one pill each time, with warm wine or salt soup, on an empty stomach. (Yang Family Collection Prescription Yusuo Dan)

②Treatment of incontinence of semen:

2 liang each of Astragalus (fried), Euryale (steamed), and Lotus Stamen; 1 liang each of Dragon Bone (fried in butter) and Oyster (boiled in salt water for one day and one night, calcined into powder). Grind them together, add lotus seed powder paste to make pills, and take with salt water. (Jinsuo Gujing Pills in "Yi Fang Jijie")

③Treat turbidity disease:

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. (Zhaiyuan Fang Fenqing Pills)

④Treatment of spleen and kidney deficiency heat and chronic dysentery in the elderly and children:

4 liang each of Gorgon fruit, Chinese yam, Poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, lotus seed, Coix seed, white lentil, and 1 liang of ginseng. Stir-fry and grind into powder, and take with white soup. (Fangmai Zhengzong)

⑤Treat frequent urination and spermatorrhea:

Use 2 liang of Qiushi, white Poria, Euryale ferox, and lotus seeds, grind them into powder. Add steamed dates and make them into pills as big as walnuts. Take 30 pills each time, on an empty stomach, with salt water. This recipe is called Sijing Pills.

⑥Treatment of leucorrhea:

Use Euryale ferox powder and white Poria powder. Dissolve yellow wax and honey to make pills. As big as walnuts. Take 100 pills each time, with salt water. This recipe is Dianfenqing Pills. It can be eaten raw. But the taste is astringent and the medicinal effect is not great.

The effects of Gorgon Fruit:

It strengthens the kidney and restrains the essence, nourishes the spleen and stops diarrhea, and promotes water and eliminates dampness. It treats spermatorrhea, stranguria, leucorrhea, incontinence, diarrhea, dysentery, and arthralgia.

Gorgon fruit is a good food that "can keep infants young and the elderly long-lived". It has the characteristics of "tonifying but not harsh" and "preventing dryness but not greasy", and is the first choice for autumn tonic. The best way to eat Gorgon fruit is to cook it into porridge. It can be eaten by the general public, especially women with excessive leucorrhea, kidney deficiency, back pain, children with weak body and frequent urination, the elderly with frequent urination, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, chronic diarrhea, and chronic enteritis. However, Gorgon fruit has a strong astringent effect, so it is not suitable for people with constipation, red urine, and women after childbirth.

Warning: Gorgon fruit must be cooked over a slow fire until well-cooked and chewed slowly so that it can nourish the body. Gorgon fruit eaten with fish head can also strengthen the brain and treat neurasthenia.