How to make Gorgon Fruit Porridge

What I am about to introduce to you is the method of making Gorgon Fruit Flour Porridge. I hope you will like what I am saying.

Gorgon Fruit Porridge

The seeds of the aquatic herbaceous plant Gorgon gorgonii of the Nymphaeaceae family. Also known as chicken head fruit, aquatic chicken head, and thorny lotus seed. Gorgon gorgonii is distributed in central and southern China, southwest China, east China, and northeast China. In autumn, the ripe fruits are cut, the outer peel is removed, the seeds are taken out, the hard shell is crushed, and the kernels are taken out and dried for use.

The properties of Gorgon fruit are similar to those of lotus seeds. It can be used alone to cook porridge or ground into powder and boiled into soup. It is often used together with lotus seeds. "The immortal recipe takes this and lotus fruit as bait, which is very beneficial to people."

Gorgon fruit is known as "ginseng in water". There are southern and northern gorgon. Northern gorgon is also called pond gorgon. It is mainly produced in Shandong, northern Anhui and northern Jiangsu. Its quality is slightly inferior to that of southern gorgon. The gorgon fruit in our store is the top quality southern gorgon.

Cuisine and function: Home cooking recipes

Ingredients for Gorgon Fruit Porridge

Ingredients for Gorgon Fruit Flour Porridge: 100 grams each of Gorgon Fruit Flour and glutinous rice.

How to make Gorgon Fruit Porridge

1. Place the water chestnuts in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook until done, peel and grind into powder, then dry in the sun.

2. Take 30 grams of water chestnut powder and 100 grams of glutinous rice and cook them into porridge every day.

Efficacy of Gorgon Fruit Powder Porridge: This product is suitable for people with spleen deficiency, diarrhea, fatigue, frequent urination, enuresis, pale red tongue and white tongue coating.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this product is sweet, astringent and flat in nature, and enters the spleen, kidney and heart meridians. It has the functions of tonifying the spleen and stopping diarrhea, consolidating the kidney and astringing the essence. This product can tonify the spleen with sweetness and stop diarrhea with astringency, so it is very effective for spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency and diarrhea due to spleen deficiency. The "Daily Materia Medica" says that it "stops thirst, treats diarrhea and stops leukorrhea".

"Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it "tonifies the spleen and strengthens the kidney, helps qi and astringes essence". "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it "tastes sweet and tonifies the spleen, so it can eliminate dampness and cure diarrhea and abdominal pain... It tastes astringent and astringent, so it can hold the breath and cure incontinence. Its function is similar to that of Chinese yam, but Chinese yam is better than Gorgon fruit in tonic effect, and Gorgon fruit is more astringent than Chinese yam. Chinese yam can also tonify lung yin, while Gorgon fruit only tonifies spleen and kidney but not lung". Cook it into porridge and eat it. As "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Gorgon fruit powder porridge: consolidates essence and qi, brightens the eyes and ears", it is a good recipe for mild tonic.

Note: This product has a mild nature and flavor and is suitable for all seasons.