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Amaranth is a kind of heat detoxification medicine, but also a long history of consumption of wild vegetables, in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Food Therapy Materia Medica" and other records, China's folk often use amaranth decoction to drink for the treatment of acute enteritis, dysentery, diarrhea and so on.

Amaranth tastes sour, cold and non-toxic, belongs to the large intestine meridian and liver meridian, has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, cooling the blood and stopping dysentery. Modern pharmacological research has found that it contains a large amount of potassium salt, which has the effect of lowering blood pressure. Amaranth can also promote insulin secretion, reduce blood sugar, is also one of the better diabetes dietary medicine.

It can be eaten fresh, picking young amaranth stems and leaves, washed and fried or soup or blanched after mixing, choking, crispy and slightly acidic, fresh and delicious. Can also be scalded with boiling water and dried into dried amaranth, when eating the dried vegetables with warm or cold water soaked for 2 to 3 hours, soaked and squeezed dry and chopped, mixed with minced meat to make dumplings and buns; can also be stewed and burned with pork, taste very fresh.

It should be noted that amaranth is cold, partial slippery, chronic diarrhea of spleen deficiency, spleen and stomach cold people should be cautious, pregnant women should not eat. If you are taking traditional Chinese medicine with turtle shells should not be eaten.

Horseweed is a herb, weed, pigweed, to put it nicely, and a weed, evil weed, to put it badly!

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Weeds as wild vegetables, in fact, three kinds: one is no nutrition and no taste of ordinary weeds, can only and cornmeal soup to fill hunger; two is both delicious and nutritious, such as duck feet board; three is not delicious but good nutrition. In the past, in order to satisfy their hunger, some farmers had to try many non-toxic weeds, so some of them fell into the name of wild vegetables, but as to whether they are good to eat, it is a matter of opinion. For example, amaranth is one of them.

I. Information on Amaranthus

The title "马齿笕" is suspected to be a mistake for "马齿苋". Amaranth.It is an herb of the Amaranthaceae family that grows and dies in one year.. The name Horsetooth amaranth is derived from the fact that its leaves look like horse teeth. The main reason for this name, according to Rowan, is that the shape of its leaves looks like a horse's teeth.

In addition, there are many other aliases according to its use, such as in herbal medicine, there is the horse amaranth recorded in the "Famous Medical Doctors' Other Records", the five lines of grass recorded in the "Tujing Materia Medica", and the five squares of grass recorded in the "Materia Medica Compendium", etc.; and for example, as a wild vegetable, there is theLong Life Vegetable, Twine Vegetable, Horse Amaranth, Five Elements Vegetable, Ant Vegetable, Grasshopper Vegetableetc.; in terms of being used as hogweed, there are hog motherwort, hog fatweed, and so on.

Amaranth is very common, can grow in both drought and flood, in the north and south of the farmland, vegetable fields, roadsides, ditches and other places of fertile soil are many, is a field of a strong destroyer of weeds. As long as it affects farming, farmers will certainly remove it, regardless of whether it is medicine or vegetables.

II. Uses of Amaranth

1, Vegetables.Amaranth is a wild vegetable that was used to satisfy hunger in the old days, when there was a lack of oil and salt, and the wild vegetable made was certainly not delicious, and some people ate so much of it that the mention of it made them sick to their stomachs. But nowadays, when there is no shortage of spices and condiments, it is possible to make various kinds of food, such as cold amaranth with garlic, amaranth shredded pork, amaranth buns and dumplings.

2. Infuse the water and drink it.Now, it is true that some people believe that drinking water with amaranth has health benefits. In addition to amaranth, weeds such as plantain, fritillary, passiflora, and dandelion have similar claims. Does that really work? Spurge believes that as a herb, it may be a little more useful than plain water, but there are many similar weeds, should they all be infused into water to drink? However, if you do have symptoms, it is best to seek medical attention. Herbs in water are not only slow to work, but may also delay the disease.

3, Boar grass.Amaranth can be used to feed pigs, but generally rarely thrown directly in front of the pig, mostly chopped and cornmeal, sweet potatoes and boiled together and then fed to pigs. In addition, it is rarely used to feed other livestock, and rabbits may get diarrhea if they eat too much.

Second, is amaranth really that good?

The truth is that many plants can be used as medicinal herbs, but it depends on how people use them. Some plants are valuable medicinal herbs, while some plants are medicinal herbs, but they are not valuable, so they grow wildly in the countryside and become weeds, and I have not seen anyone come to buy them.

Amaranth is also the same, if it really has such a good role, people simply take it as a common vegetable, no fertilizer, weeding amaranth at least better than the need for field management of vegetables, but also can be sold to buy food to eat. But the truth is, amaranth can only be used as a kind of occasional eating wild vegetables.

Amaranth in water to drink claims, rowan suggests that it is best to ask more experienced people, perhaps for some symptoms may really have a surprising effect may also be possible.

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Amaranth belongs to the annual herbaceous plants, there are two major morphological types: yellow-flowered species and white-flowered species. The yellow-flowered species has a purplish-red stem, which has a sour flavor and a poor taste when fried; the white-flowered species has a green stem and leaves, which has a better eating quality, and in recent years, it has evolved into an artificially cultivated species with a fat stem and large leaves, which is also known as big-leafed Amaranthus. Amaranth is a typical medicinal and food source of wild vegetables, usually eaten in the spring and summer.

nickname

Long life grass, melon grass, horse lettuce, horse bay cabbage, sun does not die. Amaranth is known as long life grass mainly because of its own tenacity, amaranth is dried out after the water and soil can grow again. The leaves look like a horse's teeth, so it is called Amaranthus.

efficacy

Amaranth has been in the pharmacopoeia since the Tang Dynasty, with the effect of clearing away heat and dampness, detoxifying swelling, reducing inflammation, quenching thirst, diuretic, preventing dysentery and preventing enteritis. Amaranth is cool in nature, specializing in the large intestine meridian, can clear the dampness and heat in the large intestine, treatment of diarrhea, dysentery effect is remarkable, but the spleen and stomach cold people should not eat amaranth.



Portulaca oleracea (common purslane)

Amaranth Benefits and Effects

sexual flavors and normalizing meridians (TCM)

Amaranth is cold and acidic in nature, belonging to the heart meridian, liver meridian and large intestine meridian, the more it enters the meridian, the wider the therapeutic range.

nutritional value

Amaranth is rich in dihydroxyethylamine, malic acid, glucose, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C and other nutrients. Regular consumption of amaranth can not only replenish the body's nutrients, and never increase the worry of high cholesterol, is really a natural good vegetables and good medicine.

efficacy

Amaranth main treatment of enteritis, dysentery, blood in the urine, urethritis, eczema, dermatitis, leucorrhoea, all kinds of carbuncle, sores, breast pain, hemorrhoids bleeding, poisonous snake bite and tuberculosis and so on. Modern pharmacological studies of amaranth for cover dysentery rod and, Escherichia coli, typhoid fever bacillus, staphylococcus aureus have a strong inhibitory effect, so amaranth is the treatment of diarrhea with enteritis effective drugs. For pediatric diarrhea, stool thin water, a little fever has a therapeutic effect.

1, the nutritional value of amaranth: its omega-3 fatty acid content is higher than that of human and other plants. omega-3 fatty acid can inhibit the body's absorption of bile solid acid and lowering of blood cholesterol concentration. Improve the elasticity of blood vessel sub-walls, which is favorable to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

2, amaranth treatment of diarrhea: if the day diarrhea a dozen times, the taste is particularly smelly, bacillary dysentery with pus and blood, the stomach has a feeling of falling, with amaranth to stop diarrhea effect is very good, but if there is no taste, is a deficiency of the spleen, with the yam dietary therapy is better.

3, amaranth treatment of abscesses: with amaranth mashed on abscesses also have good results.

4, amaranth treatment of sweaty hands and feet: sweaty hands and feet of young people, you can use dry amaranth 50 grams of boiled water, wait for the water to cool and put your hands and feet on the inside of the bubble for 5 to 10 minutes, last two to three days the effect is very obvious.

5, amaranth can clear heat and dampness and dry dampness, on the moisturizing and nourishing the skin has a certain indirect role.

6, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea: Poria plus amaranth have clear heat and dampness, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea effect.

7, relieve allergic skin itching: dry amaranth 120 grams, decoction for 30 minutes, remove the dregs. Bath or towel dipped in cold compress, can play a good role in relieving itchy skin.



Amaranth's role in treating three highs

The role of amaranth in hypertension

Amaranth contains a very high amount of naturally occurring potassium, many causes of high blood pressure are due to the sodium in the large amounts of salt we consume in our bodies, and potassium ions can reduce the damage caused by sodium. It plays a role in lowering high blood pressure.

Effects of amaranth on hyperlipidemia

Hyperlipidemia is caused by too much triglycerides and fats in the blood, and the blood becomes very viscous. Amaranth contains unsaturated fatty acids - linolenic acid, to a certain extent can play a role in reducing blood fat.

The role of amaranth in hyperglycemia

Amaranth contains a lot of alkaloidal active ingredients, and this ingredient can play a role in easing the growth rate of blood sugar.

Amaranth for diarrhea

In folklore, there is often a recipe for treating dysentery with amaranth, which also confirms the folk people's experience of amaranth. Amaranth belongs to the bitter, sour and cold class of drugs, can enter the large intestine meridian, can cool the blood to stop dysentery, is the treatment of large intestine heat poisoning, blood dysentery, dysentery pus and blood is a very good and effective drugs. It is a very good and effective medicine for treating heat and toxicity in the large intestine, bloody diarrhea, and dysentery with pus and blood.

Amaranth not only can cool the blood to stop dysentery, it can also treat due to the colon dampness and heat caused by enteritis, such as: watery stools, stomach pain, and sometimes a bit of a fever is a typical symptom of enteritis, amaranth on which there is also anti-diarrhea effect. So whether it is diarrhea or dysentery, where there is dampness-heat in the large intestine or blood-heat toxicity is very good to use.

Modern pharmacological studies have shown that Amaranthus can inhibit dysentery bacilli and also inhibit E. coli. Therefore, the effect of Amaranthus on the treatment of diarrhea and enteritis has also been proved by modern pharmacology.

Amaranth for Pediatric Diarrhea

[Pediatric Diarrhea Drink] Use 30 grams of fresh amaranth, mash the juice (you can use a juicer to get the juice), add about 3 grams of honey, and take it in two doses. Whether it is dysentery or enteritis, amaranth alone is effective.

Pediatric diarrhea medicinal diet] 30~60 grams of amaranth decocted, put into the round-grained rice together with porridge. In order to increase the appetite of children can add some honey or sugar.



Pediatric Diarrhea Formula

Amaranth Porridge - Clearing Heat and Stopping Diarrhea

Ingredients: 250g of fresh amaranth (or 50g of dried amaranth), 50g of rice.

Practice: cut up amaranth, decoct for 30 minutes, remove the dregs, add rice and boil into porridge.

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Amaranth externally for skin diseases

Amaranth is not only a good remedy for dysentery when taken internally, it is also useful externally for treating skin infections and skin allergies. According to the "Handbook of the Ministry of War," the Tang Dynasty's Minister Wu Wuheng suffered from a sore on his neck (described as "itchy and itchy") when he was leading an army in Xichuan, and the itch was so severe that it stung like crazy. At that time, good doctors tried all kinds of internal and external remedies, but none of them worked. When he returned to the capital, a medical official offered him a formula - the use of amaranth as a compress, and as a result, his wet sore was well treated. This story was recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica by Li Shizhen.

Treatment of eczema, eczema sores, skin allergies

Amaranth topical application for some purulent skin diseases, eczema, wet sores, skin allergies have a certain therapeutic effect. Both can clear heat and detoxification, but also can collect moisture and stop itching. According to modern pharmacological research, amaranth externally with a certain anti-allergic effect, for skin allergies redness, itching, and even cause rashes, have a certain desensitization effect.

[Usage] If you have fresh amaranth, you can pound it into a paste and apply it directly to the allergic area after pounding; if the area is large, you can also add some honey to make a mask and apply it on your skin. 20 minutes or so later, wash it off.

Effects: Stopping dampness and relieving itching, clearing away heat and subduing swelling.

[EXPERT TIP] Not for long-term skin.

Topical application of amaranth for shingles

Herpes zoster is known in Chinese medicine as the "stringy waist dragon" and is thought to be caused by fire-heat in the liver meridian and damp-heat and fire-poisoning. Amaranth enters the liver meridian, so in Chinese medicine, amaranth can clear the liver meridian of damp-heat and fire-poison. Therefore, amaranth is also a complementary treatment for shingles.

"Herpes Zoster Topical Remedy

Usage: 100 grams of fresh amaranth, pounded into a paste, apply to the affected area, change twice a day until cured.

Note: When changing, first wash the affected area with salt and tea water. (Tea is a bit astringent, salt water has some disinfectant effect)



Amaranth for Shingles (Stringy Girdle Dragon)

[Topical formula for exudative skin]

Practice: 60 grams of Amaranthus, WenHuo water decoction 2 times, 30 minutes each time, filtered liquid 500 ~ 1000ml, 6 ~ 8 layers of sterilized gauze placed in the liquid soaked, squeezed the excess liquid applied to the affected area, 10 ~ 15 minutes each time, 2 ~ 3 times a day.



Amaranth for exudative skin topical application

Amaranth for Hemorrhoids

[For internal use] 100 grams of fresh amaranth, decoction with water, once a day.

External wash] 150 grams of fresh amaranth, decoction water 25 minutes fumigation, 2~3 times a day.

[Effects] Removing bleeding internal hemorrhoids, clearing heat and toxins.

The main reason for this is the fact that it is not a good idea to have a good time with your family and friends.



(Amaranth formula for hemorrhoids)

How to eat amaranth

Portulaca oleracea porridge

150 grams of amaranth greens, 100 grams of round-grained rice, cooking porridge, not into the salt, vinegar, fasting, light food, used for blood dysentery; another formula: into the sauce to cook, used for swollen feet, heart and abdominal distension, urinary astringency.

Amaranth Honey Drink

Boil raw amaranth juice and drink with honey. It is used for postpartum bloody diarrhea, incontinence of urine, and pain in the umbilicus and abdomen.

Amaranth and Egg White Drink

Amaranth juice, egg white 1 first boil, people amaranth juice warm drink.

steamed Portulaca oleracea (common purslane)

1: Remove the roots and wash the amaranth, cut into small pieces;

2: Stir together the amaranth and flour;

3: Pour onto a plate and place in the boiling pot to steam for about 3~5 minutes;

Amaranth with Garlic

1, put a little salt and oil in a pot to boil, put in the cut amaranth to blanch until brown, fish out and let cool.

2: Take a large bowl and mix the pepper oil with the garlic and add a little water.

3, in the mixed juice add blanched good amaranth mix can be.

scrambled eggs with horseradish (genus Amaranthus)

Ingredients: amaranth, two eggs;

Practice:

1: First, blanch the amaranth in boiling water;

2: After blanching, chop it into small pieces;



3, take two eggs and beat them well, the process of beating can add a little seasoning in it (sugar, salt), plus some sugar can make the eggs made more full of flavor, while its texture will also be better.

4: Combine the beaten egg and amaranth and whisk together.

5, open the fire, the oil temperature does not need to be too high, there are six or seven layers of heat can be put into the whisked eggs and amaranth.

6、Fry and then you can take it out of the pan.



Attention: blanch before use--Expert Tip: Amaranth's edible to medicinal are the same, for the acid cold medicinal. Modern medical research shows that it contains oxalic acid, which is not a big problem if we eat it in small quantities; if I take it as food and eat it in large quantities, I must blanch it to dissolve the oxalic acid, which prevents the formation of calcium oxalate stones in the body. Dried amaranth herbs must also be blanched and then dried before they can be used medicinally. So whether you eat it or use it medicinally, there is a blanching process.

medical records

"Dispersing blood and eliminating swellings, inducing bowel movement and sliding the fetus, detoxifying the toxin and clearing away drenching, and curing post-partum deficiency sweating" - Li Shizhen, The Compendium of Materia Medica

Dietary taboos

Amaranth can be sauteed, made into soup or chilled, or it can be rinsed in soup and dried and stored until winter.

Amaranth is known to be an abortifacient, so pregnant women with habitual miscarriages should be more careful.

Nine hemorrhoids in ten people, are you so troubled, this herb is really not expensive, amaranth it has a therapeutic role in hemorrhoids. In the countryside many old people if in the wild diarrhea, directly with the amaranth to treat.For amaranth, do you know anything about it?

Discovering that amaranth can also be used as a medicinal herb short story

It is said that a long time ago, many people did not realize that amaranth could also be used as a medicine, but just regarded it as a kind of wild vegetable for feeding pigs. It can be said that every family has picked amaranth, but the medicinal value of amaranth is unknown.

It is said that once upon a time there was a landowner's family, the family had three sons who married daughters-in-law, and the oldest daughter-in-law was a child bride. This family is very bad to the child bride, bitter, tired work, dirty work let her do, the meal also do not give her enough to eat.

One year, there was an epidemic in the village, many people were infected with dysentery, and before long, many people died. The child bride was also infected, and had diarrhea all day long. The family was worried that she had dysentery to the whole family, they let the child bride moved to live inside the hut, and no one to send her food, let her starve to death, the child bride had no choice but to dig up a lot of wild vegetables inside the ground to cook and eat, the results of even eating and drinking this kind of wild vegetables for a week, I did not expect the dysentery stopped, the body is also gradually good.

This matter spread inside the village, the villagers have dug this kind of wild vegetables to eat, everyone's dysentery is gradually good.People call this wild vegetable "amaranth" because it looks like a horse's teeth.”

The medicinal value of many herbs has been passed down through people's own experiments and word of mouth. Like Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, it must have been the same way, through his own human experimentation, he discovered the medicinal value of the herbs. Or by observing the behavior of animals, such as Horny Goat Weed, and thus learn the medicinal value of these herbs.

Amaranthus is also called horse amaranth, or also pigweed. It is an annual herb with prostrate stems on the ground and fat, juicy, light green leaves, all of which are hairless. Because the leaves resemble a horse's teeth, so people named it Amaranthus。

In life, people often use amaranth as a dish for feeding pigs. So, what kind of medicinal value is there in using Amaranth to boil water?

Amaranth is an herb that belongs to the group of cleansing herbs and is specifically used to treat diarrhea.

China's first official revision of the Pharmacopoeia "Tang Materia Medica" said that the amaranth "Lord swollen fistula warts, mashed wipe, drink the juice of the Lord regurgitation, drenching." Visible amaranth, specializing in the large intestine, have clear heat and detoxification, cool blood and stop dysentery effect.

Herbs that clear heat are widely used. The main effect is to clear away internal heat. The common signs of internal heat in our life include red face, body heat, thirst and cold drinking, red urine and especially yellow tongue coating. This is because the heat evil attacked our internal organs, the symptoms of dampness and heat. Some because of viral infections appear diarrhea symptoms, in modern treatment, often use antibacterial drugs to treat, Chinese medicine is commonly used to clear heat and dry dampness and clear heat and detoxification drugs to be used in conjunction.

In addition, Amaranthus can also be used in the treatment of blood in the stool or bleeding hemorrhoids, that is, it can be taken internally and can be applied externally. In the "raw herbs and medicinal properties of the preparation of" is recorded in the "red dysentery, clearing heat and poison, wash hemorrhoids boil" on the treatment of amaranth for hemorrhoids.

Modern pharmacology on the composition of Amaranthus. There is an in-depth study found that amaranth contains a large amount of levonorgestrel and vitamin A, rich in malic acid and other components, we all know that vitamin A-like substances can promote the physiological function of the epithelial cells tends to normalize, and can promote the healing of ulcers.

Nine out of ten people suffer from hemorrhoids, a disease that is difficult to talk about, but is mainly characterized by a small, fleshy projection in the anus, or rectum, with vague pain and blood in the stool when it flares up. Amaranth has a therapeutic effect on this, and there are formulas with some antiemetic medicines, such as diwali, acacia and so on.

Finally, although amaranth has a particularly acidic flavor and is eaten as a wild vegetable in some rural areas, it should be used with caution by some people with weak spleens and stomachs, and by pregnant women. If you need to use it, please do so under the supervision of a doctor.

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Thanks for the invitation! Amaranth, as a commonly used Chinese medicine, has certain dietary and health care functions in addition to its remarkable clinical efficacy, making it a better medicinal and food herb.

Amaranth, first appeared in Materia Medica Jing Jiezhu (本草经集注). It is the dried above-ground part of Amaranthus edulis, family Amaranthaceae. It is sour in flavor and cold in nature, and belongs to the liver and large intestine meridians.Clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling the blood to stop bleeding, removing dampness and clearing gonorrhea. It can be used for treating feverish diarrhea, feverish drenching, urinary leakage, leucorrhea, hemorrhoids, ulcers, carbuncles, dengtoxin, scrofula, tinea cruris, white baldness, and snake bites.Food Therapy Materia Medica contains: "prolonging life, brightening eyes", "Yunnan Materia Medica" said that this product can be "beneficial to gas, clearing summer heat, wide in the lower gas, moistening the intestines, elimination of stagnation, kill worms, treatment of sores, redness, swelling and pain". And take the amaranth pounded compresses, treatment of many years of bad sores. The Compendium of Materia Medica (Materia Medica) suggests that Amaranthus has the function of "dispersing blood and eliminating swellings, inducing bowel movement, detoxifying the fetus, clearing away toxins, and treating post-partum sweat". The Compendium of Materia Medica states that this product can "cool blood and benefit blood".

Modern research has shown that Amaranthus contains triterpene alcohols, flavonoids, amino acids, organic acids and their salts, as well as calcium, phosphorus, iron, selenium, potassium nitrate, potassium sulfate and other trace elements and their inorganic salts, as well as thiamine, riboflavin, vitamins B1, A, β-carotene sucrose, glucose, fructose and so on.

So that amaranth soaked water to take can clear the intestinal heat and poison, and can cool the blood to stop bleeding, for the treatment of feverish diarrhea, dysentery pus and blood, after the heavy. And the treatment of blood heat and toxicity, carbuncle sores, canker sores, dengtoxin swelling and pain of the evidence, can be used alone decoction of internal and external wash.

But not everyone is suitable, because of its cold nature, plain cold spleen and stomach, as well as pregnant women should be careful to take!

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Amaranth was originally a traditional Chinese medicine, often used by rural Chinese medicine practitioners, my father's enlightened teacher. My father's teacher was a doctor who practiced medicine at home and had a great reputation in the area, so he used a lot of herbs. My friends and I often go to the pond ridge at his request to collect medicines, including amaranth. In return, we usually have a small illnesses and pains, the old man will give the herbs back to the adult decoction, drink on the good, but also do not pay for medicine.

I remember the old man cured me three times with amaranth.

Once ate a big melon stolen from the ground, I guess not washed, hot days eat bad stomach, running belly diarrhea, a trip. He instructed my mom to gather a few amaranth on the ground, go home and decoct water, drink three times a day, and the next day was fine.

There was another time when I had a problem with my balls, it was also a hot day, and they were always wet and dry like I hadn't washed and dried them. After a few days, it was covered with red rashes, itchy and itchy, but I didn't dare to scratch. This is the same method, even drink and wash, three days will be fine. I remember this most clearly.

Then there was a wart on my arm, which the adults said was from playing praying mantis. The praying mantis urinated on it and it grew a wart. I was so scared and disgusted that I picked at it all day long to get rid of it. However, after a few days of picking off a layer, the wart grew again, and every time I picked it, it bled and hurt, but it still didn't work. The result is still the old way, amaranth inside and outside, a few days wart shrinking into a scar, fell.
Of course amaranth is an even better ingredient, fresh and dried, and can be made into many delicious flavors.

Amaranth is a very common wild vegetable, in the field, on the ground, by the side of the road, but wherever there is a little soil can be found everywhere. It is drought-resistant and flood-resistant, and even when the sun is blazing and all kinds of plants are wilting, it is still in high spirits and has a strong vitality, and it is distributed all over the country. According to legend, when Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was cut off from food in the Nanyang area of Henan Province in the present day, he saved his life by eating amaranth and then sealed it as "never dying", which is also known as "long-life vegetable" and "longevity vegetable". It is also called "long life vegetable" and "longevity vegetable", and some places also call it "horse-beard vegetable" and "ant vegetable".

Amaranth tastes crunchy with a smooth texture, slightly sour and not too flavorful. Due to the high content of oxalic acid in amaranth, blanch it in hot water before eating. Amaranth contains a variety of nutrients, per 100g of fresh amaranth contains 92g of water, protein 2.3g, fat 0.5g, carbohydrates 3.0g, calcium 85mg, phosphorus 56 mg, iron 1.5mg, carotene 2.33mg, vitamin C is 23mg.In addition, according to relevant studies, amaranth is rich in n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, which are rarely found in plants, and such unsaturated fatty acids were only thought to be contained in fish in the past, which is beneficial to improving blood lipids and preventing cardiovascular diseases.

Amaranth is both edible and medicinal, and is one of the wild plants classified by the Ministry of Health of China as having the same source of medicine and food.In the herb books of the past generations, it is described as "Amaranth, also known as the five lines of grass, with its leaves green, stalks red, flowers yellow, root white, son of black also." Amaranth as China's traditional Chinese medicine has been in folklore for thousands of years, "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Food Therapy Herbal" and other ancient medical monographs have been recorded:Amaranth whole grass into medicine, cold, sour, with heat, detoxification, beneficial gas, laxative, blood, swelling, dysentery and other effects. The main treatment for enteritis, dysentery, carbuncle, canker sores, malignant sores, salpingitis, snake and insect bites, hemorrhoids, eczema, acute and subacute dermatitis and other diseases.

The chemical constituents in the plant are the material basis of its medicinal effect, so far scholars at home and abroad have extracted many chemical constituents from Amaranthus, mainly including: organic acids, alkaloids, flavonoids, polysaccharides, terpenes, steroids, coumarins, anthocyanins, volatile oils, catecholamines and so on, which are the main components of the plant, including: organic acid, alkaloid, flavonoids, polysaccharide, terpenes, steroids, coumarin, anthocyanin, volatile oil, catecholamines and so on.Modern pharmacological studies have shown that these ingredients have antibacterial, hypoglycemic, hypolipidemic, antioxidant, anti-tumor, anti-atherosclerosis, anti-aging, enhance immunity and other functions.

However, most of the medicinal functions such as hypoglycemic lipids, anti-tumor and so on are carried out in animal and in vitro experiments, and whether the efficacy is the same in human beings is still to be explored in further research, and the current clinical applications are mainly in skin diseases, intestinal disorders, and gynecological disorders, and so on.

Amaranth as a kind of medicine and food plants, different from simple food, boil water to drink will have certain medicinal ingredients dissolved, and the Chinese medicine pay attention to the identification, the best in the guidance of Chinese medicine practitioners to apply, do not casually bring their own boil water to drink, especially as a daily drinking water. Amaranth due to the cold nature of the medicine, long time to take easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. Moreover, as a kind of wild vegetable, amaranth has the possibility of being contaminated, and must be cleaned when consumed.

It is also important to note that there are two groups of people who should avoid amaranth:

1, weak spleen and stomach or abdominal cold caused by diarrhea.

2, due to the amaranth by the effect of abortion, pregnant women should be prohibited from eating.

Amaranth, also known as longevity grass and horse cress, is an annual herb of the genus Amaranthus in the family Amaranthaceae, and is a dual-purpose plant used for both medicine and food. Amaranth has great medicinal value.

The following are some of the water-infused drinking uses of horseradish.

I. Decongestive and diuretic effects

Because amaranth contains a lot of potassium salts that our body needs, consuming amaranth or soaking amaranth, into the amaranth body can effectively send water in our body, to the diuretic and decongestive effect.

Second, the role of sterilization and anti-inflammatory

Amaranth has an inhibitory effect and can inhibit the growth of typhoid, E. coli, dysentery bacilli, etc. to achieve sterilization. Amaranth treats a wide range of inflammatory conditions and acts as a supplement, which is why amaranth is called a natural antibiotic.

Third, the role of prevention and treatment of heart disease

Amaranth contains Y-3 fatty acids, Y-3 fatty acids can inhibit the production of cholesterol and thromboxane synthesis, so that the concentration of blood dilution, blood vessels to expand the ability to control blood clots, preventing the occurrence of heart disease.

Four, has the effect of treating ulcers

Amaranth is rich in carotenoids, which promote healing of ulcers, feel free to drink amaranth in water to treat ulcers.

Five, with the effect of lowering blood pressure

Potassium ions in our body's role in the place can be for the blood vessel wall, potassium ions make the blood vessel wall expansion, improve the elasticity of the blood vessel wall, stop the arterial wall thickening, to achieve the effect of lowering blood pressure. Because the amaranth contains a lot of potassium ions, to often brew water to drink, to reduce our blood pressure.

Because of the cold nature of amaranth, we can't drink it for a long time, it will hurt our kidneys, we can add a piece of ginger when we drink it, ginger is strong in nature, it can neutralize with amaranth and relieve its coldness.

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Amaranth is a common wild vegetable as well as an herbal medicine. Its flavor is not very good, and it is rather sour in taste. According to Chinese medicine, amaranth is cool in nature and has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, as well as cooling the blood and stopping bleeding after taking it.

Although it is able to treat a variety of diseases, but not all physical people are suitable for taking. Today, we will talk to you about the efficacy of amaranth in water, to learn about it~.

Amaranth has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, inducing diuresis and removing dampness, dispersing blood and eliminating swelling, removing dust and sterilizing, anti-inflammatory and analgesic, stopping bleeding and cooling blood. The main treatment for dysentery, enteritis, nephritis. Postpartum uterine bleeding, blood in the stool, mastitis and other pregnant women, especially those with habitual abortion, should be prohibited from eating amaranth; amaranth can treat all kinds of swelling and fistula, the amaranth is crushed and rubbed on the affected area.

People who are not suitable for taking Amaranth:

A: Pregnant women should never eat amaranth, because amaranth has the effect of slippery, pregnant women are prone to abortion after taking.

Second: If you are taking traditional Chinese medicine and there is turtle shell in the prescription, then it is best not to touch the amaranth during the medication phase, this is because amaranth and turtle shell are mutually exclusive, and taking them together is likely to cause damage to the body.

Third: If you are experiencing diarrhea due to cold in the abdomen, then it is best not to take amaranth either to avoid aggravation of the condition.

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What is the effect of amaranth boiled in water?

When it comes to amaranth, it may be unfamiliar to some of you, but when it comes to horse tongue, it's familiar to all of you in the countryside, isn't it? Not bad, it is

A wild vegetable with a yellowish-brown cylindrical stem and opposite or alternate obovate leaves. Pictured below:

Since it is a wild vegetable, we can also imagine that it is very vigorous. I heard the old man say that the folk also call it“be furious with the sun”It is called so only because it is not easy to dry in fresh form. That being the case.So, I'll start by showing you a way to dry your amaranth:

In the summer and fall, we take the amaranth that we dig down, remove the stubs and impurities, wash them, andSlightly steamed or blanchedThe dried amaranth can then be dried and used as medicine. Here to emphasize, sun-dried amaranth need to be placed in a ventilated dry place to store, so as not to affect the efficacy of the drug due to moisture and mold. At this point, I guess some friends are anxious to know its efficacy, good! Now, I will give you separateWe will talk about its medicinal and food values from the perspective of the treatment of disease in Chinese medicine and the prevention of disease in food respectively.

First, it is analyzed from the perspective of herbal treatment:

It has a sour flavor, cold nature, slippery and fluent texture, and belongs to the large intestine and liver meridians. Usually, the sour flavor itself has astringent effect. So let's think: amaranth into the large intestine meridian play astringent astringent effect means what? Obviously it means that it can stop dysentery; at the same time, it is cold and slippery, and what does it mean? Obviously it means that it is good at relieving blood and colon heat poisoning; in addition, the liver hides blood, so the cold amaranth into the liver meridian that hides blood and what does it mean? And obviously means that it can cool the blood and stop bleeding!

Therefore, the functions and indications of Amaranthus are: clearing away heat and removing toxins, cooling the blood to stop bleeding, and stopping dysentery. Used for fever and blood dysentery, carbuncle boils, eczema, dengteng, snake and insect bites, blood in stool, hemorrhoidal blood, heat gonorrhea, hemorrhagic gonorrhea, hemorrhagic leakage and so on.。

Here, I emphasize one point:Since we are talking about the function and treatment of Amaranthus from the therapeutic point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, it is necessary to strictly observe the method of administration and dosage in accordance with the characteristics of Chinese medicine:

The main therapeutic directions of fresh and dried Amaranth are different. The fresh product is more effective in stopping bleeding when crushed into juice and is taken in doses of 30-60 g, while the dried product is used for other treatments in doses of 9-15 g. In addition, it can be crushed and used externally.

Secondly, in terms of food defense against disease:

Amaranth is one of the 78 wild plants planned by the Ministry of Health of China that have the same source of medicine and food. It contains a large amount of norepinephrine and a variety of potassium salts, and contains protein, sugar, crude fiber and other ingredients. But these are limited to the records of individual books, in addition, there is no more verifiable scientific basis! So.My point of view on this is that we can consume these nutrients as they exist, but we can't rely on their nutrients alone to stop or reduce our intake of other foods! A whole-food structure with a variety of diets is the king of health and wellness at all times, isn't it?

If you are skeptical about the above nutrients contained in amaranth, then there is something to be said for the dietary remedies against diseases that I will share with you below. Because, if you look closely, they are all derived from the traditional properties above. For example:

A, amaranth can prevent dysentery: in the summer of dysentery epidemic, we take fresh amaranth stems and leaves washed decoction soup or porridge to eat, will make the incidence of dysentery significantly reduced.

Second, the amaranth and japonica rice with porridge, fasting food or single decoction soup service, can also prevent and cure dysentery.

To summarize, the above is about the functions of Amaranth from the angles of sunshine, medicinal effect, dosage and dietary therapy. Do you understand amaranth now? If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a message in the comment section.

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