And can not, amaranth has two uses, one is a wild vegetable, the second is a medicinal herb, as a wild vegetable, is to take its heat detoxification, to remove the fire and cool the blood; as a medicinal herb with the time, with the whole grass, and more to do the auxiliary medicine, the efficacy of varying, and more fresh; but in terms of utility, there is no treatment of gray hair effect. Specifically the following details:

a, therapeutic amaranth, clearing heat and detoxification, cool blood to fire.

In the amaranth is more tender, is available as a wild vegetable to eat, it tastes a little bitter, because the relationship between the thicker leaves, the texture is very slippery, scalded and cold mostly, stir-fried, the taste is a little strange, and may not eat; but it is, after all, only as an ingredient, the efficacy of a limited number of health care (the vast majority of green vegetables are purging the heat and detoxification).

So, although it is true that it is a heat detoxification, but only because it has part of the vitamins and fiber, so only to play that effect, on the ordinary ingredients, fruits and vegetables are also that effect, so do not be superstitious amaranth this kind of wild vegetables, because it really can not be considered tasty, frying pots of hollow cabbage it does not smell?

Second, Yi, Yao, Zhuang, Dai medicine: fresh food main treatment of dysentery, pain relief, from the "Gui medicine compilation", "Dian medicine record", "ethnic medicine two".

in a number of medicinal use, amaranth (guangxi called it melon vegetable) have the role of dysentery, and most of the fresh, and in ancient times, because of food hygiene and nutritional reasons, dysentery for one of the main diseases, and fresh eating amaranth or mix salt and eat amaranth, can do treatment, pain, the principle lies mostly in the mucus of amaranth, which is in the conventional vegetables, uncommon, and only the vine vegetable With some similarity to it, it also has this effect (also a thief hard to eat a vegetable).

Much of what it does is because of this mucus, and the exact part that works is unknown today. But because it can be eaten as a wild vegetable in its own right, it's not particularly revered for this one utility, but it can still be used when there's no medicine available. Of course, in reality, if there is dysentery, stomach pain, or go to the hospital is more reliable.

Three, fresh external use of the whole herb: treatment of sores and swellings, from the "Gui medicine compilation" .

Amaranth in the treatment of sores or a set of, like in the countryside inside the common grass cuts and pus pus sores, nails splitting the formation of abscesses, pus after being stung by bees, as well as bamboo thorns, wood thorns, etc. into the flesh caused by abscesses, can be used with amaranth mixed with coarse salt outsourcing, generally about half a day, you can let the wound pus, gradually healed, the specific principle is not known, it may be the mucus sludge pulling the toxicity of adsorption, with the principle of sucking blackheads! It is possible that it is also the extraction and adsorption of mucus medicinal mud, which is similar to the principle of sucking blackheads, as it dries up with a crunching sensation.

And this point, I have the right to speak, in the childhood because of the skin, often run around in the bamboo forest, bamboo forest bamboo thorns are more, inevitably stuck to the foot; that time more miserable, bamboo thorns have been broken in the flesh, can not be completely picked out, slowly pus, and looked for the village doctor; and the village doctor's medication is not a lot of conditions, so it gave me a package of amaranth mixed with salt and mashed clay, half a day later, the pain of the wound under the foot is not so strong, take off when you wash your feet. After half a day, the pain of the wound under the foot was not so strong, and when I took it off when I washed my feet, there were a few black rotten bamboo thorns on the top of the dark green dried medicine, and a few days later, the wound started to heal and the abscess was better.

Overall, on the efficacy of amaranth, has not seen the treatment of gray hair, if you say where to look at the prescription, please be careful.