Amaranth belongs to the medicinal and food wild vegetables, sour taste, cold nature, to the large intestine, liver meridian, with heat detoxification,, dispel dampness, cool blood to stop bleeding effect, treatment of pyrexia dysentery, dysentery of hot and damp heat effect is very good, generally large doses of single-use on the effective; because of its cooling blood to stop bleeding, so it can also be used to treat the intestinal tract due to dampness and heat of the blood in stools, hemorrhoidal bleeding, the use of methods: you can use the fresh amaranth to mash the external application, or dry decoction of external washings. Or dry decoction of external wash; in addition, because of the strong role of amaranth in clearing heat and detoxification, so for fire boils, localized redness, swelling and pain, you can use fresh amaranth pounded externally or taken internally.
Amaranth, also known as long life, in the rural life should know, in the weeding of crops, encountered amaranth, hoeing off after it must be brought to the head of the ground to throw away, and other weeds are not used. Why? Because other weeds after hoeing off the sun will die, and amaranth is not, hoeing off if you stay in place, in a few days it slowly and then rooted and sprouted, live again, if the next day it happens to rain, the rain a moisturizing, and immediately on the branches and leaves, reproduce a large area. Because of its tenacity, it is called the long life vegetable.
But there are many people who believe that it has the effect of prolonging life, so it is called long life vegetable, such as the Tang Dynasty physician Sun Simiao's "Thousand Golden Essentials" as well as Mon Monk's "Food Therapy Materia Medica" are said to be able to prolong life, modern research has also proved that amaranthine extracts have a good antioxidant, delaying the effects of aging. It also has anti-allergic properties and can effectively lower blood lipids and improve blood sugar levels.
The medicinal aspects of amaranth, edible aspects, amaranth can be cold, can do porridge, can be fried, in the "food to identify the materia medica", "General Records of the Shengji" and other ancient books have recorded amaranth soup, amaranth porridge and other medicinal dietary dietary treatment of the recipe, used to treat dysentery, abdominal pain and other syndromes. When I was a child in the summer and fall seasons, the family often used amaranth as a cold dish to eat, or made into a vegetable bun to eat.
Now is the amaranth growing season, the field is everywhere, you can take the family a weekend digging, that is close to nature, but also therapeutic health. If you don't want to travel, now the food market are also sold, the price is not expensive, wet heat body of the crowd or hemorrhoids, the crowd, act quickly.
Contraindication: cold spleen and stomach, pregnant women are prohibited. ## Health Science Challenge ## Health Science Ranking ## Summer is coming "#