Amaranth can replenish qi, clear heat, eyesight, slippery fetus, large and small intestines, and the growth of teeth and bones can play a role in promoting, and can maintain normal cardiac activity, to prevent muscle spasms. It also has the functions of promoting blood clotting, increasing hemoglobin content and improving oxygen-carrying capacity, and promoting hematopoiesis. It can also lose weight and clear the body, promote detoxification and prevent constipation.

Nutritional value

Each 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 of vitamin Ma 0.16 milligrams of vitamins ma, niacin 1.1 milligrams of vitamin C28 milligrams of vitamins Ma, calcium 180 milligrams of phosphorus 46 milligrams of iron, 3 milligrams of iron. , phosphorus 46 mg, iron 3.4 mg, potassium 577 mg, sodium 23 mg, magnesium 87.7 mg, chlorine 160 mg.

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Amaranth leaves are rich in calcium that can be easily absorbed by the body, which can play a role in promoting the growth of teeth and bones, and can maintain normal cardiac activity and prevent intramuscular spasm. It is also rich in iron, calcium and vitamin K, which can promote blood clotting.

Amaranth is rich in dietary fiber, eating can lose weight, promote detoxification, prevent constipation. At the same time, eating amaranth can enhance physical fitness, and contains more than tomatoes and fruits, "longevity vegetables," as it is called.

Amaranth can promote children's growth and development, its iron, calcium content is higher than spinach, for the fresh vegetables in the best. It is also suitable for anemic patients, women and the elderly to eat, maintain normal heart muscle activity, promote blood clotting, hematopoiesis and blood carrying oxygen.

Medicinal value

Taste and odor

Conjugation: cool in nature, slightly sweet in taste; enters the lung and large intestine meridians.

Efficacy

Actions: Clearing heat and inducing dampness, cooling the blood to stop bleeding, and stopping dysentery. It can be used in treating dysentery, diarrhea, sore throat, epistaxis and other diseases. Specifically as follows:

Zi: clearing the liver and brightening the eyes. It is used for corneal cloudiness, eye redness and swelling pain.

Root: cooling the blood and detoxifying, stopping dysentery. Used for bacterial dysentery, enteritis, red avulsions and leucorrhea, hemorrhoids.

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

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."

Use and dosage: 15-20 grams of seeds; 25-50 grams of roots.

Excerpt: "National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine"

Therapeutic value

The stem and leaves of the herb Amaranthus, family Amaranthaceae. Leaves have green, red, dark purple and other colors, the red color is better, called red amaranth, red amaranth. It is cultivated all over China, harvested in spring and summer, removed the root and washed.

Properties: sweet taste, cold nature. It can clear away heat and detoxification, diuretic and remove dampness, and facilitate bowel movement.

Reference: Containing a large amount of lysine, vitamin C, iron, calcium and other ingredients.

Use: Used for dysentery and blood in stool or damp-heat abdominal distension, feverish drenching, short and red urine, deficient people, the elderly have difficulty in bowel movement.

Use: Decoction, porridge, or juice.

Note: Spleen deficiency prone to diarrhea or loose stools should be taken with caution. Food Therapy Materia Medica says: "Amaranth and amaranth are finely powdered, equal parts, and pregnant people often take, so that easy labor." Li Shizhen also said that it can "slip the fetus", so it is not suitable for pregnant women.

Consumption of contraindications

Amaranth is not to be eaten with turtle and turtle meat.

Common cooking methods include stir-frying, choking, mixing, making soup, the following

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and stuffing.