Early summer is the season when amaranth is ripe, and the nutritional value of amaranth at this time is very high. Amaranth has the highest content of vitamin C among green vegetables. It is rich in nutrients such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, and does not contain oxalic acid. The calcium and iron contained in amaranth can be easily absorbed and utilized after entering the human body, and can also promote the growth and development of children.

Species: Amaranth can be divided into green amaranth, red amaranth and flower amaranth according to leaf color. The soup of green amaranth is clear after frying, and the soup of red amaranth and flower amaranth is purple.

Efficacy: Amaranth has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, astringing and stopping bleeding, diminishing inflammation and swelling, and treating dysentery, and it has a certain auxiliary treatment effect on red and white dysentery caused by damp heat and red eyes and sore throat caused by liver fire.

Cooking: Amaranth can be made into soup or fried. It is advisable to blanch with boiling water to remove the astringency of amaranth, and then put it in a pot to cook. Amaranth is fried and tastes peaceful; Boiling soup has the effect of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis.

Taboo: Amaranth should not be eaten with soft-shelled turtle, which will cause food poisoning; People with stomach deficiency and fear of cold should not eat more, which is easy to cause diarrhea.

Red amaranth diet

Sweet, cool and non-toxic.

Meridian tropism enters the large intestine.

Efficacy: detoxification and heat clearing, hemostasis and diuresis.

Indications: diphtheria, hematuria and penetrating measles.

Don't eat with turtles.

Explain that red amaranth is fried and tastes peaceful; Boiling soup has the effect of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. Anyone with deficiency of stomach and intestines should not eat more, which is easy to cause diarrhea.

Selected therapeutic prescriptions of amaranth

1, 10g red amaranth, or twice the amount of red amaranth, decocted in water twice a day, can penetrate measles.

2, 30 grams of red amaranth, fried Huangyan powder, brown sugar boiled water twice (do not eat cold and spicy food), cure postpartum abdominal pain.

3, the roots of red amaranth, calcined with fire (or add a little borneol), blow throat to cure diphtheria.

4, red amaranth is not limited, often eat boiled soup, treat filariasis lower extremity elephantiasis, goiter.

5, red amaranth120g, decocted in four bowls of water to one bowl, taken warm, has an auxiliary effect on uterine cancer.

6, red amaranth 150 grams, remove the roots, wash, cut into fine pieces. 100g When the japonica rice is almost ripe, add amaranth and a little oil and salt to serve. It has the effect of clearing away heat and stopping dysentery. It is suitable for acute bacillary dysentery and enteritis.