Alias long life vegetable, longevity vegetable, five lines of grass.
Sex and flavor attributed to the meridian cold, sweet and sour taste; into the heart, liver, spleen, large intestine meridian.
Effects and IndicationsClearing heat and removing toxins, inducing diuresis and removing dampness, dispersing blood and eliminating swelling, removing dust and sterilizing bacteria, reducing inflammation and relieving pain, stopping bleeding and cooling blood. It is used in treating dysentery, enteritis, nephritis, postpartum uterine bleeding, blood in stool, mastitis and other conditions.
Nutritional composition per 100 grams of Amaranthus fresh amaranth stems and leaves containing protein 2.3 grams, 0.5 grams of fat, 3 grams of sugar, 0.7 grams of crude fiber, calcium 85 milligrams, 56 milligrams of phosphorus, iron giant 1.5 milligrams, 2.23 milligrams of carotenoids, vitamin BI 0.03 milligrams of vitamin BI, vitamin B.O. 11 milligrams of vitamin BI, vitamin B.O. 11 milligrams of vitamin B.O., vitamin B.O. 7 milligrams of vitamin C. Vitamin BI is also found in the bloodstream. In addition, also contains a large number of norepinephrine, potassium salt and rich citric acid, malic acid, amino acids and alkaloids and other ingredients.
The therapeutic effect
1. water, reduce swelling, lower blood pressure amaranth contains a large number of potassium salts, has a good effect on swelling; potassium ions can also act directly on the blood vessel wall, so that the blood vessel wall dilation, to prevent the arterial wall from thickening, so as to play a role in lowering the blood pressure.
2. eliminate dust, prevent ulcers amaranth can eliminate dust, prevent phagocytosis degeneration and necrosis, but also can prevent inflammation of lymphatic vessels and prevent fibrous changes, put an end to the formation of silicosis nodules, vitiligo also has a certain degree of efficacy; amaranth also contains a large number of carotenoids, can promote the healing of ulcer disease.
3. Antibacterial anti-inflammatory amaranth on dysentery bacillus, typhoid bacillus and E. coli have a strong inhibitory effect, can be used for a variety of inflammatory diseases auxiliary treatment, known as "natural antibiotics," said.
4. Prevention and treatment of heart disease amaranth contains a rich Y-3 fatty acids, which can inhibit the generation of serum cholesterol and triglyceride acid in the body, to help vascular endothelial cells synthesize prostaglandins increase, inhibit platelet formation of thromboxane A2, so that the blood viscosity down, prompting the expansion of blood vessels can prevent platelet aggregation, coronary artery spasm and thrombosis, thus playing a role in the prevention and treatment of heart disease, and thus preventing the formation of thrombus, and thus preventing and treating heart disease. thrombosis, thus playing a role in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.
Health care recipes
1. Amaranth porridge 100 grams of fresh amaranth, 50 grams of round-grained rice, 5 grams of scallions. Amaranth remove impurities wash, into the boiling water off for a moment, fish out of the wash away mucus, chopped; frying pan hot, put people onion bias incense, and then cast the amaranth, add salt fried to the taste of people, out of the pot to be used; round-grained rice washed clean, put people in the pot, add the right amount of water to cook, put the horse teeth grams cooked to porridge, out of the pot that is into the. This food is light and fresh, unique flavor, with heat detoxification, spleen and stomach effects. Applicable to enteritis, dysentery, urinary tract infections, canker sores and toxins and other diseases.
2. cold amaranth 500 grams of fresh amaranth, garlic cloves. The horse tooth for the roots, old stems, cleaned under boiling water pot body through the fish out; with water many times to wash the mucus, cut into sections of the plate; garlic cloves pounded into garlic, poured on the horse tooth for the foraging, pouring soy sauce, drizzled with sesame oil, eaten when mixing that is complete. This dish is green and fragrant, into a fresh and delicious, with heat and dysentery, hair beauty effect. Can be used as moist heat dysentery, vitiligo patients and due to the lack of copper elements caused by white hair patients auxiliary therapeutic dishes.
3. amaranth fried chicken fresh amaranth for 400 grams, 100 grams of chicken breast, green onion, ginger 10 grams, egg white 1. Will be clean, drained standby; chicken breast cut thin, put in a bowl, add salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), cooking wine, and then put the egg white, wet starch evenly; frying spoon on medium heat, add oil and burned to 50 percent heat, under the chicken wire scratch, pour into the spoon to drain the oil; frying spoon on a high flame, add oil and burned to seventy percent heat, bias onion, ginger, under the amaranth, cooking wine, broth, fried to the break, under the salt, MSG, chicken wire fried, and then put the wet starch Thin thickening, and finally dripping sesame oil, plate can be. This dish from the green, tender and crisp, with the spleen and stomach, detoxification and swelling effect. Spleen deficiency does not want to eat, sores and swollen poisons, urinary incontinence and other diseases patients have a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect.
4. Horse teeth grams of pig liver soup amaranth 45 grams, 30 grams of gold cabbage, cooked pig liver 50 grams, eggs each other. Will amaranth wash, chopped; gold cabbage after the hydration cut into segments; pig liver wash, cut into thin slices; will be amaranth, gold cabbage in a pot, add water to cook for 15 minutes, and then add pig liver stew, hit the egg, to be boiled and then adjusted to salt, monosodium glutamate that is. This soup is tender and fragrant, into the fresh flavor, with the benefit of the liver and eyesight, wide in the efficacy of the gas. Applicable to liver blood deficiency,, spleen congestion, night blindness, body fatigue and other diseases.
Attention to the top of the amaranth for cold products, weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea and pregnant women should not eat; avoid eating with pepper, the powder, turtle armor.
Selected Literature
Kai Bao Materia Medica: "Serving the long years not white. It can cure carbuncle sores and kill all kinds of worms. Raw and mashed juice, when li down the evil, to remove white worms."
The Compendium of Materia Medica: "Dispersing blood and eliminating swellings, inducing diuresis, detoxifying the fetus, detoxifying the lymphatic system, and curing post-partum deficiency sweating."
"Gleanings of Materia Medica": "All swellings, warts and eyes, pounding and wiping; break non-eclampsia, quench thirst."
"Yunnan Materia Medica": "Benefiting gas, clearing summer heat, broadening the middle and lowering the gas. Slippery intestines, eliminate the accumulation of bandages, kill worms, cure sores, redness, swelling and pain."
Cultural Appreciation
Tang Du Fu. The Garden Official Sends Vegetables: "Early in the morning, I am often honored by the landlord. The keeper of the real number of intentions, slightly its name is stored. The bitter barbs are like needles, and the horse's tooth leaves are also numerous. The color of the green Jia vegetable, buried in China"; "and as the horse's teeth in full bloom, the air embracing the sunflower in the dim. Dyeing is not easy
Yu, silk and linen miscellaneous Luo dandy".
Folk proverb: "Horsetooth amaranth, boiling water fried, people ate a smile, for what? Ugly gray hair disappears."
Historical legend: according to li jiang "military hand collection", when the wu yuan heng phase in xichuan, suffering from tibial sores itch unbearable, a hundred doctors ineffective, a hundred parties do not hang. And to the capital, there is a hall official on the horse teeth grams square, with which it will be healed. Li Shizhen recorded this legend in the "Compendium of Materia Medica".
Folklore: In ancient times, ten days and out, the fields are withered. Erlang Shen shoulders two mountains, straight to catch the sun, the sun has nowhere to hide, in a hurry, to see the horse's teeth grams long green drip green, lush, will hide in its leaves. Later, the sun in order to repay the life-saving grace of the horse tooth amaranth, it is always not sun horse tooth foraging, drought and no rain, other plants wilted, only the horse tooth foraging green as the beginning of the blossom spitting stamens, seed reproduction.