Family Amaranthaceae is the seedlings and young leafy stems of Amaranthus.

Alias green fragrant amaranth, red amaranth, wild prickly amaranth, rice amaranth.

These are cool in nature and slightly sweet in flavor; they are used in the lung and large intestine meridians.

Effects Indications: Clearing heat and removing dampness, cooling the blood to stop bleeding, and stopping dysentery. It can be used to treat dysentery, dysentery, sore throat, epistaxis and other diseases.

Nutritional composition per 100 grams can contain 90 .1 grams of water, 1.8 grams of protein, O.3 grams of fat, 5.4 grams of carbohydrates, 0.8 grams of crude fiber, 1.6 grams of ash, 1.95 milligrams of carotenoids, vitamins Ma 0.04 milligrams, vitamins Ma 0.16 milligrams, 1.1 milligrams of niacin, 28 milligrams of vitamin C, 180 milligrams of calcium, 46 milligrams of phosphorus. Iron 3.4 mg, Potassium 577 mg, Sodium 23 mg, Magnesium 87.7 mg, Chlorine 160 mg.

Therapeutic effects

1, clearing heat and detoxification, eyesight and throat amaranth is sweet and cool in nature, long for clearing dampness and heat, clearing the liver and detoxification, cooling the blood and dissipating blood stasis, for the dampness and heat caused by red and white dysentery and liver fire caused by eye red eye pain, throat swelling and unfavorable, have a certain adjuvant therapeutic effect.

2, nutritious, strengthen the body amaranth is rich in protein, fat. Sugar and a variety of vitamins and minerals, the protein it contains than milk can be more fully absorbed by the body, containing carotene than tomatoes and fruits more than two times higher than the human body to provide a wealth of nutrients, is conducive to strengthening the body to improve the body's immunity, "longevity dish," the name.

3, promote children's growth and development Amaranthus lei in the iron content is spinach 1 times, calcium content is 3 times, for fresh vegetables in the school school. What's more, amaranth does not contain oxalic acid, calcium and iron are easily absorbed and utilized after entering human body. Therefore, amaranth can promote the growth and development of children, the healing of bone fracture has certain therapeutic value.

Health care recipes

1. Cold mixed amaranth amaranth 500 grams, 5 grams of garlic. Wash amaranth, put people in boiling water blanch out; garlic pounded into mud, blanched amaranth in a plate, put garlic, salt, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, mix well. This dish is light and cool, with the effect of appetizing food, suitable for poor appetite, diet, epigastric plumpness and other conditions.

2. amaranth and tofu soup amaranth 400 grams, 20 grams of seaweed, 250 grams of tofu, garlic 10 grams. Amaranth washed, put into boiling water blanch, drain; seaweed cut into minced; tofu cut into small pieces, garlic pounded into mud; frying pan on the fire, add people cooking oil, oil hot under the garlic, stirring out the flavor under the seaweed and tofu block, with a little salt stew 1 minute, then add water and salt; soup boiling, under the amaranth a roll that is away from the fire to fill the bowl, seasoning can be. This dish has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, promote the efficacy of the fluid and moisturize dryness, for the liver and gallbladder fire, red eyes and swollen pharynx has an auxiliary therapeutic effect.

3. Fried amaranth 250 grams of amaranth, shrimp 20 grams. Amaranth washed, take the tender tip; shrimp washed and chopped; pot on a high flame, refueling hot, under the amaranth dry fry, into the shrimp, fried. When starting the pot, people can be a little bit of salt. This dish has the effect of supplementing the deficiency of growth, especially suitable for children to eat.

4. Amaranth soup amaranth 400 grams, take the tip of the young clean; pot under the sesame oil, hot, into the amaranth, high-fire frying for a few moments, and then add the soup simmering, from the pot into a bowl. This dish is light and cool, can facilitate the two stools, is hot and dry constipation patients the ideal dietary therapy.

5. purple amaranth porridge purple amaranth 150 grams, 60 grams of round-grained rice. Amaranth clean, chopped, put people in the pot, add cleaned round-grained rice, then add the right amount of water and salt, martial arts fire boil, changed to the fire porridge. This porridge has the effect of clearing heat and stopping dysentery, applicable to the elderly body weakness, bowel irregularities, acute dysentery, acute enteritis and other diseases. Eat often can benefit the spleen and stomach, strong body.

Precautions amaranth is cold in nature, and should not be consumed by people with yin-sheng and yang-deficiency constitution, spleen deficiency and loose stools, or chronic diarrhea.

Selected Literature

Ben Cao Tu Jing: "Purple amaranth, the main gas diarrhea; red amaranth, the main blood diarrhea."

The Compendium of Materia Medica: "Six amaranths, and benefit the large and small intestines. Treatment of initial dysentery, slippery fetus."

The Yunnan Materia Medica: "Treats incontinence of urine and faeces, transforms worms, removes cold and heat, can open the blood veins, and expel blood stasis."

"With the rest of the house dietary spectrum": "Amaranth through the nine orifices. In fact, the main Qingyu bright eyes, and the word amaranth from see."

Cultural Appreciation

Song - Su Song: "Red amaranth is also known as the flower amaranth, stems and leaves deep red, the rhizome can also be bad hide, eaten is very beautiful, the flavor of pungent."

Amaranth leaves have pinkish green, red, dark purple or with purple spot color, so the ancients divided into white amaranth, red amaranth, purple amaranth, five-color amaranth and so on several kinds. In addition, there are human amaranth and amaranth, collectively known as six amaranth.

Qing Xiao Xiong. Western Frontier Miscellaneous Poems - Garden Vegetables: "A few beds of vegetables do not become rows, white leeks and onions taste with interest. Luo TV children love autumn color is old, the vine rose misty storage every other year fragrance."

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