Gorgon fruit Semen Euryales Gorgon Euryale ferox Salisb seed Qian shi

Product Description

Gorgon fruit/Semen Euryales/Gorgon euryale/Euryale ferox Salisb.seed

Chinese name:qian shi

Part use: dry seeds

Property:sweet,astringent,mild

Act on the spleen and kidney channel.

Functions: tonifying kidney and controlling nocturnal emission with astringent drugs.Invigorating spleen to stopping diarrhea.

9-15G each time

Typical and classic prescription:

Name of the prescription:qian shi he ji

Herbs and quantity:Semen Euryales 30g;Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae 12g;Poria cocos 12g;Rhizome of Common Yam 15g;Cuscuta chinensis seeds 24g;Cherokee Rose Fruit 24g;rhizoma polygonati 24g;Lilium brownii var. viridulum.bulb 18g;Loquat leaf 9g;Codonopsis pilosula dried root 9g

Functions:Nourishing Kidney-essence ;strengthening the spleen and replenishing Qi;adjusting pulmonary Promoting diuresis.

Above herbs add 900ml water to decoct until water left 300ml.

Plant description:

Euryale ferox Salisbury
qian shi
Submerged leaves not prickly; leaf blade sagittate or elliptic, 4--10 cm, base deeply cordate. Floating leaves prickly on petioles and along veins; leaf blade abaxially dark purple and adaxially green, to 1.3(--2.7) m in diam., subleathery, abaxially sparsely pubescent, adaxially glabrous, base emarginate or sinuate; veins abaxially strongly ribbed; primary veins prickly on both surfaces. Flower to 5 cm in diam. Peduncle stout, densely prickly. Sepals triangular-ovate, 1--1.5(--3) cm, abaxially dense-ly prickly; prickles retrorse. Petals outer purple-violet fading to inner white, oblong-lanceolate, 1(--2.5) cm. Ovary 7--16-loculed, each locule with 6--8 or more ovules. Fruit dark purple, globose, 5--10 cm in diam., spongy, densely prickly. Seeds black, 8 to many, globose, 6--10 mm in diam.; testa thick, rigid. Fl. Jun--Aug.
Lakes, ponds. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Bangladesh, India, Japan, Kashmir, Korea, Russia (Far East)].
This species is cultivated for its starchy seeds.

Normal Herbs used in China for years

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