Maziren zhou
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| Kind | Dish Traditional medicine |
|---|---|
| Part of the plant | Seed |
| Language | Chinese |
Maziren zhou (麻子仁粥, mázǐrén zhōu, "cannabis seed congee") is a thin rice congee cooked in the juice of crushed cannabis seed, eaten in Chinese medicine as a remedy. Li Shizhen's Bencao gangmu (1593) names it among the prescriptions under the seed of cannabis, taking it from the Shiyi xinjing (食醫心鏡), and gives it for "wind water" (風水) with a swollen belly and a heavy pain in the waist and navel that prevents turning over.[3][1]
Making maziren zhou
Half a jin of winter hemp seed (冬麻子) is crushed and strained with water. Two he of non-glutinous rice (粳米) are boiled in the juice into a thin congee, which is seasoned with spring onion, pepper, salt and fermented black beans and eaten on an empty stomach.[3] The Zhenglei bencao of 1108 has the recipe from the same book without the name, with half a sheng of seed and ginger among the seasonings.[2][1]
Under the same entry Li Shizhen gave cannabis-seed congee for elderly people with wind impediment, for painful urinary strangury and for constipation. He quoted the Benshi fang (本事方) of Xu Xueshi (許學士), which held a congee of hemp seed and perilla seed, two he of each ground and strained, the safest remedy for constipation after childbirth and for the "wind constipation" of old people.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Brand, E. Joseph; Zhao, Zhongzhen (2017). "Cannabis in Chinese medicine: are some traditional indications referenced in ancient literature related to cannabinoids?". Frontiers in Pharmacology. 8 108. doi:10.3389/fphar.2017.00108.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 唐慎微 (Tang Shenwei). "卷二十四：麻蕡". 證類本草 [Materia Medica Arranged by Classification] (in 中文) (Siku quanshu ed.). Retrieved 3 October 2026 – via Wikisource.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 李時珍 (Li Shizhen). "卷二十二：穀之一（胡麻；大麻）". 本草綱目 [Compendium of Materia Medica] (in 中文) (Siku quanshu ed.). Retrieved 3 October 2026 – via Wikisource.