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The page treats the congee of rice cooked in cannabis-seed juice that the Bencao gangmu names maziren zhou, with the other seed congees of the same entry.
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- The Bencao gangmu (Siku quanshu, juan 22), among the old prescriptions under the seed: 麻子仁粥 from the Shiyi xinjing, the congees for the elderly, for strangury and for constipation, and the hemp-and-perilla congee of the Benshi fang.
- The Zhenglei bencao (Siku quanshu, juan 24) has the Shiyi xinjing congee without a name.
Source conflicts
- Half a jin of seed in the Bencao gangmu, half a sheng in the Zhenglei bencao. The Zhenglei bencao seasons it with spring onion, pepper, ginger and fermented beans; the Bencao gangmu with spring onion, pepper, salt and fermented beans.
- In the Siku text of the Bencao gangmu the Benshi fang congee is 麻子粥; another transcription on Wikisource reads 麻子蘇子粥.
Is it cannabis?
- The seed is 冬麻子 / 麻子, under the entry for 大麻. See Maziren wan.
Kind and plant part
- Dish and traditional medicine: a congee eaten as a remedy. Seed.
- First recorded: 1108, the Zhenglei bencao recipe; the name first appears in the sources cited in 1593.
- Still made: not known.