Euryale ferox is also called chicken's head rice, which Chinese medicine thinks is sweet and astringent. Euryale ferox is a mature seed kernel of aquatic plants in Nymphaeaceae, which is a famous raw material for both medicine and food. Gordon Euryale is oval or round, with brown outer membrane and astringent taste. Dark brown is the skin color of Euryale ferox. There is no skin, and the inside is pink and white. If it is stewed slowly, it will taste better. When choosing Euryale ferox, yellow is the color of "tender" Euryale ferox, which is easy to cook. There is no musty smell, and it is best to choose Euryale ferox without sour taste and sulfur smell. Gorgon Euryale is better with complete particles, full and uniform, white cross section, no impurities and mud, and dry texture. Gordon Euryale is the best among all kinds of Gordon Euryale, and Gordon Euryale with white skin without inner seed coat is better than Gordon Euryale with red skin without inner seed coat.

Gordon Euryale is white and clean, tastes tender and sticky, and is easy to cook. Euryale ferox is commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine, which plays a dietotherapy role in invigorating spleen, nourishing stomach, tonifying kidney and solidifying essence. It is suitable for chronic diarrhea, frequent micturition, wet dream nocturnal emission, and women's backache. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that Euryale ferox is the most beneficial to the spleen and stomach because it can resist aging and prolong life. For example, Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica says: "Euryale ferox can tonify the middle energizer, enrich the essence, strengthen the will, make people hear clearly, stay hungry for a long time, and endure old age." According to modern research, Euryale ferox contains a lot of sugar. Protein, fat, dietary fiber, vitamins and trace elements play an important role in maintaining human health and energy metabolism. Thousands of years of dietotherapy experience has proved that Euryale ferox is indeed a good medicine for health care. Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, was still healthy, ruddy and quick-thinking in his later years. According to his account in the book, he mainly benefited from eating cooked Euryale ferox every day for decades, so his waist and legs were strong and he walked powerfully. Euryale ferox is rich in vitamin D b 12. Eating Euryale ferox with lean meat can promote the absorption of folic acid and vitamin B 12 in lean meat, which is of great benefit to relieve and prevent megaloblastic anemia, headache, neuropathy, joint pain, lumbago and leg pain and other weak symptoms.

Eating Euryale ferox regularly can also assist in the treatment of frequent urination in the elderly. Old people often have problems such as frequent urination, urgency and urinary incontinence. Eating Euryale ferox in moderation can obviously improve these embarrassing situations. We advocate eating Euryale ferox in autumn because it can regulate the spleen and stomach function consumed in summer. After the spleen and stomach are full, eating more tonics or indigestible tonics will make the human body adapt to winter tonic and be beneficial to the body. Euryale ferox also has obvious astringent and dampness-removing effects, and is generally used for frequent nocturnal emission in loose stool or men. Gordon Euryale also contains more dietary fiber and dextran, which has the function of assisting in lowering blood sugar and blood lipid.

Gordon Euryale is used in diet, mostly as dessert and porridge, such as stewed Gordon Euryale with rock sugar and white fungus, steamed Gordon Euryale with honey, porridge with glutinous rice and red dates and so on. Euryale ferox has a good effect on promoting digestion and strengthening the spleen and stomach. For people with indigestion, using Euryale ferox and yam to make paste can play the role of dietotherapy and health care. The paste method of Gordon Euryale seed to help indigestion: Gordon Euryale seed 500g, dried yam 500g, glutinous rice flour 500g, sugar 100g. Sun-dried Euryale ferox and Chinese yam are ground into fine powder and mixed with glutinous rice flour and white sugar. Take three or four spoonfuls of mixed fine powder every day, add cold water to make it into a thin paste, and then heat and cook it to get the paste of Euryale ferox yam. Cook hot in the morning and evening and eat on an empty stomach. Using 50 ~ 100g mixed powder every time, 7 ~ 10 days is 1 course of treatment, and good health care effect can be obtained.