Amaranthaceae Stem fleshy Capsule Split up and down Split and seed pops out
[edit]Definition of Amaranthine
Scientific name Portulaca oleracea Linn.
English name Purslane
Family is the young stems and leaves of the plant amaranthine, Portulacaceae Portulacaceae.
Alias long life vegetable, five lines of grass, anle vegetable, amaranth, sour rice vegetable, longevity vegetable.
Sex and flavor attributed to the meridian cold, sweet and sour taste; into the heart, liver, spleen, large intestine meridian.
SourceThis product is the dried above-ground part of Portulaca oleracea L., family Amaranthaceae. Harvested in summer and fall, remove the stubs and impurities, wash, slightly steamed or scalded and dried in the sun.
Pharmacological Actions
1. Antibacterial Actions Qu Shuyan reported that the ethanol extract of Portulaca oleracea had a significant inhibitory effect on Shigella and Fusarium. Water decoction has inhibitory effect on Shigella, Sonnen, S. and F. dysenteriae, but dysentery bacilli can produce significant resistance after several passages in Amaranthus broth. Alcoholic extract or decoction also has inhibitory effect on Escherichia coli, S. typhi and Staphylococcus aureus; it also has different inhibitory effect on some pathogenic fungi such as S. aureus. It has no inhibitory effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis; it is ineffective in mice infected with Escherichia coli by intraperitoneal injection with alcoholic extract or water decoction of residue after alcoholic extraction.In 1992, Ma Muying reported the bacteriostatic effect of wild amaranth sold in the vegetable market of Shenzhen City on a variety of common food-contaminating bacteria. The results showed that amaranth had strong inhibitory effects on a variety of common food contaminating bacteria. Even diluted to a concentration of 12.5%, it still had a certain inhibitory effect. Especially, it has strong inhibitory effect on many bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Proteus, Shigella, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus cereus, etc., while it does not inhibit Garcinia cambogia, and its inhibitory effect on Mycobacterium smegmatis is not obvious. Amaranth also has inhibitory effect on some molds, such as Trichoderma racemosum, Rhodococcus erythropolis, Streptomyces symphonis, Aspergillus flavus, etc. The inhibitory effect is also stronger; while there is no inhibitory effect on Rhodococcus nigricollis, green wood mold, Aspergillus niger, and there is no inhibitory effect on yeasts.
2.Effect on smooth muscle In 1985, Qu Shuyan reported that the extract of Amaranthus tinctorius (made by decocting and concentrating in water and adding alcohol to remove the precipitate) and its isolated crystalline potassium chloride have obvious excitatory effect on guinea-pig, rat and rabbit in vitro, and on the in situ uterus of dog. 2 ml of Amaranthus injection (equivalent to 5-10 g of the raw drug) was stronger than with ergometrine 0.2 mg, and weaker than with posterior pituitary hormone 10 units; whereas with 4-6 ml it was similar to posterior pituitary hormone 10 units. Potassium chloride crystals isolated from Amaranthus tinctorius had a significant contraction effect on isolated ileum of rats, and the strength of its action was similar to that of prostaglandin E1, 200ug, and neostigmine 0.25mg, while 20% decoction 0.2ml had an inhibitory effect on the small intestine of isolated guinea-pigs. After that, foreign scholars SunbhanichM et al. studied the effects of aqueous juice and boiling water extract of freshly squeezed amaranth plants on intestinal peristalsis of isolated guinea pigs and contraction of isolated atria and trachea. The results showed that for isolated ileum, both the aqueous juice and the boiling water extract resulted in increased tension, amplitude, and frequency of contractions. This effect was similar to that of acetylcholine and was dose-dependent. However, the increase in contractile tension and peristalsis could be slightly blocked by atropine. Both types of preparations showed dose-dependent effects on cardiac myocardial contractility and rate of contraction, as well as relaxation of isolated tracheal strips. These effects were similar to those produced by isoprenaline and were completely blocked by cardiac glycosides (2.1x10(-5) mol/L). The results of the action of Mastodon on isolated guinea pig ileum and atria suggest that the drug may act as a relaxant and cardiotonic agent, respectively, and that its bronchodilatory action on bronchial tubes may be used in the treatment of bronchial asthma.
3. Action on skeletal muscle:
OkwuasabaF et al. 1987 reported that the aqueous extract of Amaranthus tinctorius had unique properties of diastolic in isolated and in vivo skeletal muscle, and that the aqueous extract was effective when used topically in skeletal muscle ankylosis due to spinal cord injury. The authors further investigated the pharmacological activities of various extracts of Amaranthus and compared them with the aqueous extract. The results showed that the effects of the various extracts of Amaranthus (methanol (MEE), ether (DEE), and dialyzable (DIF) extracts) were similar to those of the aqueous extract (AEE) in terms of their inhibitory effects on the phrenic nerve of the rat and the lateral diaphragm (MS and NS) and on the rectus abdominis muscle of frog specimens.
All three extracts:
3.1. produce a biphasic response consisting of an initial increase in twitch tension followed by a prolonged and sustained inhibition;
3.2. significantly reduce the ratio of twitch/tonicity in contractures induced by K+ and caffeine;
3.3. attenuate contractures of rectus abdominis muscles induced by the agonist nicotinic acid. The non-dialyzable (NDF) extractor showed very slight muscle relaxation without attenuating agonist nicotine-induced contractures. The mechanism of action can be hypothesized to be as follows: The aqueous and organic solvent extracts of Amaranthus produce muscle diastole by interfering with a variety of calcium pools associated with excitation-contraction couplings such as initiating calcium and intracellular calcium pools. Caffeine-induced contraction occurs in part through mobilization of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) calcium pools, and interference with the mobilization of such pools partially explains the observed attenuation of caffeine contraction by various different amaranth extracts. Other effects of these extracts such as inhibition of convulsions (MS) and tonic tension can be explained by a similar mechanism. The order of strength of IC50 of these extracts was DIF ≥ MEE>DEE. since methanol has a lower partition coefficient than ether, it is possible that methanol extracts contain more of the active ingredient for the muscle-diastolic effect of Amaranthus. Based on the significant effect of DIF and the absence of skeletal muscle diastolic effect of the 100% acetonitrile fraction previously extracted using high-pressure liquid chromatography, it can be assumed that the active ingredient of Amaranthus equinus may include polar components.
4. Effects on uterus: Li Shourui reported in 1979 that Amaranthus had two opposite effects on the uterus of animals, one was excitatory, which was the potassium chloride fraction in Amaranthus, and the other was inhibitory, which was the organic component in Amaranthus. The potassium salts are mainly found in the stem and the organic constituents are mainly found in the leaves.
5. Effects on cardiovascular system: Lanzhou Medical College reported that 20% water decoction 0.2ml has inhibitory effect on isolated frog heart. For anesthetized dogs injected intravenously 3ml/only, respiration, blood pressure, heartbeat have no significant effect.
6. Promote ulcer healing: National compilation of Chinese herbal medicine reported that this product is rich in vitamin A-like substances, so it can promote the physiological function of epithelial cells to normal.
7. Other effects: StefanovZH et al. reported that the water-soluble and fat-soluble extracts of Amaranthus tinctorius could prolong the life of tetracosan-induced severe diabetes mellitus in rats and rabbits without affecting the blood glucose level, suggesting that Amaranthus tinctorius extracts could improve the disorders of lipid metabolism.
Source form annual herb, up to 35 cm long. Stem lower creeping, four scattered branches, upper slightly able to erect or oblique up, fat and juicy, green or lavender, all smooth and glabrous. Leaves alternate or subopposite; leaf blade fleshy and plump, oblong or spatulate, or obovate, apex rounded, slightly concave or truncated, base broadly cuneate, resembling a horse's tooth, hence the name "Amaranthus". Small yellow flowers in summer. Capsule conical, transverse from the waist for capsule-shaped, with most of the black flat round tiny seeds.
Traits of this product more wrinkled and curled, often into a ball. Stem cylindrical, up to 30cm long, 0. 1 ~ 0. 2cm in diameter, the surface is yellow-brown, with obvious longitudinal grooves. Leaves opposite or alternate, fragile, complete leaf blade obovate, 1 to 2.5cm long, 0.5 to 1.5cm wide; greenish brown, apex obtuse flat or emarginate, entire. Flowers small, 3 to 5 at the end of branches, petals 5, yellow. Capsule conical, about 5mm long, containing most tiny seeds. Slight gas, slightly acidic flavor.
Identification Take 2g of the powder, add 15ml of hydrochloric acid ethanol solution (1→20), heat and reflux for 10 minutes, filter while hot. Take 2ml of filtrate, add 3% sodium carbonate solution 1ml, placed in a water bath heating for 3 minutes, then cooled in ice water, add a small amount of activated charcoal, stirring, filtration, filtrate plus 2 drops of new diazepam p-nitroaniline test solution, showing red.
The properties and flavors are sour and cold. Attributed to the liver and large intestine meridian.
Functions and Indications It is used for dysentery (half-dry and half-scarce stools), clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is used in treating dysentery (half-dry and half-dilute stool), clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Mostly used in modern times for the treatment of enteritis, acute arthritis, cystitis, urethritis, anal inflammation, bleeding hemorrhoids and so on.
It is suitable for people with gastrointestinal tract infections; for people with rough and dry skin, vitamin A deficiency, corneal chondromalacia, ocular dryness, night blindness; for children with simple diarrhea, children with whooping cough; for patients with hookworm disease; for women with reddish-white discharge and pregnant women when in labor; for silicosis patients.
Contraindications where the spleen and stomach are weak, diarrhea and loose stools are contraindicated; pregnant women, especially pregnant women with habitual abortion contraindications, because amaranth is cold and slippery, too much food. It is not recommended for pregnant women, especially pregnant women with habitual miscarriage. According to the former experience, the amaranth taboo and turtle with food, otherwise it will make the utility of gastrointestinal dyspepsia, food poisoning and so on.
"Food Therapy Materia Medica": "Boil porridge to stop dysentery and chancre dysentery." Kai Bao Chong Ding Xin Ben Cao (New Materia Medica): "Horsetooth amaranth, served for long years without whitening." The Classic of the Materia Medica: "It does not turn white in the long run, but it is always said that it cools the blood and benefits the blood, and the function of removing the disease and making the body lighter." Justice of the Materia Medica: "Amaranth ...... for women's red and white under the belt, this disease is mostly caused by dampness and heat stagnation, cold and slippery to guide, and dampness and heat can be drained, but also into the blood to break the blood stasis, so it is also a cure for the red belt. The lakes are said to dissipate blood swelling, diuresis, detoxification and gonorrhea, and none of the cold and slippery two words of achievement."
The Classic of Materia Medica: "Where the spleen and stomach cold, intestinal slippery for leakage do not use. Decoction bait formula shall not be included with turtle armor."
Accordingly
Amaranth, as a wild vegetable, has been consumed by the Chinese people for a long time, and it does have a distinctive flavor. Summer and autumn season, plucking the stem and leaves lush, young and juicy, remove the root, wash and scald soft, the juice gently squeezed out, mixed with salt, rice vinegar, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, sesame oil and other condiments and seasonings, do gazpacho to eat, flavorful, smooth and delicious. Can also be branded cake, do filling steamed food. The masses in many parts of our country, there will still be amaranth washed, scalded, chopped, dried, stored as winter vegetables to eat the habit.
[edit paragraph]Nutritional composition
Research has shown that amaranth contains more SL3 fatty acids than any other green leafy vegetables that have been studied, and half a cup of amaranth contains 300-400 milligrams of d-linoleic acid, which is 6-7 times the content of spinach. SL3 fatty acids are the formation of cell membranes, especially brain cell membranes and eye cells. SL3 fatty acids are essential for the formation of cell membranes, especially brain and eye cell membranes. Amaranth is also high in vitamin E, which prevents the destruction of cell membranes. Each half-cup of amaranth contains about 12.2 milligrams of vitamin E, which is more than seven times the amount found in spinach. In addition, also contains a large number of norepinephrine, potassium salt and rich citric acid, malic acid, amino acids and alkaloids and other components. Vitamin A-like substances, so it can maintain the normal function of epithelial tissues such as skin, cornea and conjunctiva, participate in the synthesis of optic chalcogenide, enhance retinal photoreceptor performance, and also participate in the body of many oxidative processes. Amaranth on E. coli, dysentery bacillus, typhoid bacillus and so on have a strong inhibitory effect, especially on dysentery bacillus role is very strong, so . Amaranth is suitable for people who suffer from acute and chronic dysentery enteritis as well as cystitis, urethritis (mild urethral deformity can also be). Amaranth contains a large number of norepinephrine and potassium salts, as well as malic acid, citric acid, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, alanine and sucrose, glucose, fructose and so on. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that: Bacteriostatic test: on the Escherichia coli, typhoid fever bacteria, dysentery bacillus, etc. have inhibitory effect, especially on dysentery bacillus is very strong.
Amaranthus also belongs to a sour rice cabbage, Nanjing area herbs named An Lei Vegetable. The Department of Amaranthaceae plants. Fleshy herb, small yellow flowers, fruit ripe ring-shaped split, distribution of Chinese provinces.
[edit paragraph] Selected remedies
1) treatment of white dysentery
Maranthine 60 ~ 90 grams (doubled fresh grass), lentil flowers 3 to 12 grams, decocted with brown sugar, twice a day. Or amaranth burned to save sex, research fine, to sugar water mixing service. Each time to take 6 grams, 2 times a day.
2) treatment of women's white belt
Fresh amaranth, washed and mashed juice about 60 grams, 2 raw eggs, remove the yellow, with the egg white and into the amaranth juice and stir, boiled water, 1 time a day.
3) treatment of jaundice
Fresh amaranth juice, about 30 grams each time, boiled water, twice a day.
4) rotting legs (pollicization)
Fresh amaranth mangosteen pounded, with the dregs of the compress on the affected area.
5) urine and urine blood, blood in the stool
Fresh amaranth twisted juice, lotus root juice and other quantities, each time half a cup (about 60 milliliters), to the rice soup and take, twice a day.
6) urinary tract infection, urinary leakage, urinary incontinence, urinary line thin, urinary deformity
Amaranth 150 grams, 90 grams of brown sugar, soak in water for 2 hours, 30 minutes of frying over a gentle fire, a dose of a day, served 3 times a day.
Use and dosage 9～15g; fresh 30～60g. external use appropriate amount of pounded on the affected area.
Store in a dry and ventilated place, protected from moisture.
Remarks (1) amaranth is the key medicine for the treatment of bacillary dysentery, can be used alone decoction, can also be used with Polygonum and other medicines, to use the fresh one is more effective. In recent years, the scope of application of this product has been developed, such as the use of the treatment of whooping cough, tuberculosis and purulent diseases. Because this product can be used as a vegetable, even if a large number of applications are also very safe, so it is a taste of medicine worth attention.
Excerpts from National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine
[Edit Paragraph]The Myth of Amaranth and Yi
The most famous archer in China's ancient myths and legends is Yi. It is said that Yi, whose seat was the Arigatou tribe, made bows and arrows and was good at shooting, whether it was high up, far away, moving, or tiny, he hit all of them a hundred times.
In the time of Yao, ten days came together. The crops were scorched, the grass was killed, and the people had nothing to eat. Yao then asked Yi to kill the pill pill in the Chou Hua field, the nine babies in the water, the wind in the green hills, the ten days of pills, the pills of pillsbury, the snake in the dongting, and the minister of pillsbury in the mulberry grove. All the people tasted good, and Yao was given the title of Son of Heaven. The Pillsbury pills were the first to be released in the world, and they were the first to be released in the United States.
Yi, on Yao's orders, shot away the 10 suns and six terrible beasts that were harming mankind. From then on, no matter whether the place is wide or narrow, dangerous or easy to travel, far or near, all are unobstructed.
Yi could only shoot down nine of the ten days, and survived one day by hiding under the amaranth. The sun repaid the amaranth for saving his life, and from then on, no matter how hot it was, the sun could not kill the amaranth.
[Edit paragraph]Amaranth single recipe for the treatment of Paederus fuscipes dermatitis
Paederus fuscipes dermatitis (Paederus fuscipes dermatitis) is a common skin disease in the summer season, every year June to September is the season of high incidence. Paederus fuscipes dermatitis is a common skin disease in the summer season. Paederus fuscipes dermatitis often inhabits in the wet grass, under the stones and rotten wood, and comes out day and night, and prefers to fly at high altitude, and it has strong phototropism, and it can secrete a kind of strong acidic venom, and inflammation reaction can appear after skin contact.
The clinical characteristics of venomous cryptococcus dermatitis:
1. The onset of venomous cryptococcus dermatitis has a clear seasonal, June to September, the most, especially before and after the rainy sultry weather, the incidence of higher.
2. The lesions are mostly found in the morning after waking up, and the counter lesions are mainly on the face, neck, chest and back, and the exposed parts of the limbs, which are characterized by linear, patchy, or dotted edematous erythema, with densely arranged stained yellow and white blisters or pustules, and the linear lesions are as if they were scratched by a bamboo stick or fingernails with a variety of different and irregular morphologies. Patchy lesions and skin burns similar to the length of the lesions, size, how much varies, generally long about 2 ~ 5cm, the longest up to 10cm or more.
3. The affected lesions are burning and tingling, and in severe cases can be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, chills, fever and other systemic symptoms. The course of the disease is generally about a week, the lesions dry, scab, shedding and healing. Localization can be temporarily left pigmentation spots.
A single formula can be used amaranth (fresh is better) pounded on the affected area, 2 times a day
2. Stems reddish, creeping, leaves ovate, narrower at the base. Flowers small, yellow, opening during the day. Portulaca (P. oleracea) is a widely distributed weed, and its variant, garden horseradish (P.o. sativa), is cultivated for food to some extent in some regions, mainly in Europe. The genus is extremely vigorous and grows well even on dry wasteland, and after being uprooted, it can still utilize its preserved moisture to flower and set seed. The capsule is capsule-cracked and the seeds are tiny, preserving the ability to germinate for a long time.
Portulaca Portulaca
Alias: Portulaca Portulaca, Portulaca Amarantha, Portulaca Portulaca, Portulaca Longifolia, Portulaca Wufang Grass, Longevity Vegetable, Nine-Headed Lion's Grass, Grey Amarantha, Portulaca Horse Tread, Portulaca Sauvignonii, Portulaca Anlagrata, Sour Amarantha, Bean Plate Vegetables, Melon Seed Vegetables, Longevity Amarantha, Bean Grass with Sauce Petals, Snake Grass, Sour Vegetables, Pigs' Mother's Vegetables, Lion's Grass, Ground Marais, Horse Snake Subvegetable, Ants Vegetable, Long-life Vegetables, Drought-tolerant Vegetables
Latin Botanical name: Portulaca oleracea L.
Attributive meridian: large intestine; liver meridian
Chemical constituents of traditional Chinese medicine
The whole herb contains a large amount of noradrenaline (noradrenaline)[1]
and a large amount of potash salts (including potassium nitrate, potassium chloride, potassium sulphate, and other potash salts)[2]. It also contains dopa (dopamine)[1], dopamine (dopamine)[2], betanin (betanidin), isobetanidin (isobetanidin), betanin (betanin), isobetanin (isobetanin)[3], oxalic acid (oxalic acid), malic acid, citric acid ( citric acid, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, alanine, glucose, fructose and sucrose [4]. It has also been reported that the whole herb shows alkaloid, coumarin, flavonoid, cardiac glycoside and anthracene glycoside reactions [4]. It also contains large amounts of ω3-polyunsaturated fatty acid [6].
Effects: Clearing away heat and removing toxins; cooling the blood to stop dysentery; removing dampness and clearing away drenching
Examination and verification
From "Collected Notes of the Classic of Materia Medica", "Classic of the Materia Medica": Amaranthus officinalis (马齿苋), also known as the herb of the five rows of the grass, because of its green leaves, red stalks, yellow flowers, white roots, and black seeds.
Attacks: feverish diarrhea; feverish lymph; urine closure; reddish-white leucorrhea; leakage; hemorrhoidal blood; sores and ulcers, carbuncle boils; dengtoxin; scrofula; tinea versicolor; white baldness
Ecology: Born in the field by the side of the road, and the ruins of gardens and other places facing the sun.
Discussions of various schools
1. The Classic of the Materia Medica: "The Classic" says: "When the Ying Qi does not flow from it, and it goes against the flesh, carbuncles and swellings are born.
2. "Original Disease Style": all pain and itchy sores, all belong to the heart fire. Horse teeth Ai Xin cold can cool the blood heat, so the main knot, carbuncles and boils, white baldness, and thirty-six kinds of wind sores, mashed compresses are swollen scattered boils pulled out of the root, twisted juice to serve the evil when the next, inside and outside the application of all get also. Xin cold flu, so cold and heat to go, size and convenience. Bitter can kill worms, cold can get rid of heat, so the main kill all the worms, to inch white, thirst; Xin cold can disperse the heat of the lung family, so the main blindness cataract.
3. "Justice of the Materia Medica": Amaranth, the best solution to carbuncle heat, can also be used as a compress, "Shu Materia Medica" said that its acidic and cold, Kou Zongshi said that it is cold and slippery, Chen Zangqi said that the treatment of all swellings, break the stagnant fetish, to stop thirst, are cold and cool to relieve the heat of the positive treatment. Su Gong also said that drinking the juice to cure regurgitation, gold sores, bleeding, drenching, and breaking the hematophagy of the mass in the abdomen, it is not only the treatment of carbuncles and swellings, but also eliminates plaque. Su Song said that the treatment of women with red and white tapes is mostly due to stagnation of dampness and heat, and the cold slippery to guide, and dampness and heat can be drained, and also can enter the blood to break the stasis, so it is also a treatment for red tapes. The lake is said to dissipate blood swelling, diuresis, detoxification and drenching, and no one is not cold slippery two words of achievement.
4. "Tang Materia Medica": the main swelling fistula warts and eyes, pounding wipe; drink juice main regurgitation, drenching, blood flow of gold sores, broken blood fetish syndrome fetish, children especially good; with juice wash tight lips, face blisters, horse sweating, shooting poison coated with the disease. Monk: ringworm white baldness, to horse tooth paste and ash coating effect. Cure chancre dysentery and all the wind, dressing staff sores.
5. "Food Therapy Materia Medica": bright eyes, also cures chancre diarrhea.
6. "Materia Medica": quench thirst.
7. "Shu Materia Medica": the main corpse feet (human feet without winter and summer often split), Yin swelling.
8. "Kai Bao Materia Medica": the main blindness white cataracts, facilitate urination and defecation, remove cold and heat, kill all insects, quench thirst, break the knot carbuncle sores. And burned as ash, and years of vinegar dregs, first moxibustion Ding swelling, to seal, that is, the roots out. Raw mashed and twisted juice to serve, when Li under the evil, to go to the white worm.
9. "Daily Use of Materia Medica": cool liver and cataract.
10. "Yunnan Materia Medica": benefit qi, clear summer heat, broaden the middle and lower the qi, lubricate the intestines, eliminate stagnation, kill worms, cure sores, redness, swelling and pain.
11. "Compendium": dispersing blood and eliminating swellings, inducing diuresis, detoxifying the fetus, detoxifying the lymphatic system, and treating post-partum sweating.
12. "Compendium of medicinal properties of living herbs": treatment of red dysentery, clearing heat and toxins, washing hemorrhoids and boils.
Harvesting and storage: cut the whole grass in August to September, wash the soil, pick the impurities, and then a little boiling water (boiled) or steam, on the gas, take out of the sun or kang dry; can also be used fresh.
Resource distribution: distributed throughout the country.
Contraindications
Ben Cao Jing Shu (The Classic of the Materia Medica): It is not to be used in cases of deficiency and coldness in the spleen and stomach, or when the intestines are slippery and leakage occurs; and it should not be used in the decoction formula together with turtle shell.
Animal and Plant Forms
An annual herb of the family Amaranthaceae, fat, juicy and glabrous, 10-30 cm tall, with a cylindrical stem, the lower part lying flat, the upper part obliquely or erect, much branched, often with a light brownish red color on the sunny side. Leaves alternate or subopposite; obovate, oblong or spatulate, 1-3cm long, 5-15mm wide, apex rounded, sometimes emarginate, base narrowed into a short stalk, green above, dark red below. Flowers often in clusters of 3-5 at branch ends; involucral bracts 4-5, triangular-ovate; sepals 2, opposite, ovate, ca. 4 cm long and wide; petals 5, yellowish, obovate, base borne on the ovary with the sepals; stamens 8-12, anthers yellow; pistil 1, the ovary semi-inferior, the styles 4-5-lobed, linear, protruding beyond the stamens. Capsule short conical, ca. 5 mm, brown, dehiscent. Seeds black, ca. 1 mm in diameter, surface finely punctate. Flowering May-August, fruiting July-October.
Classification: Clearing heat and removing toxins; cooling the blood
Concoction: picking the impurities, removing the residual roots, slightly moistened with water, cut into pieces and sun-dried.
Taste and odor: sour; cold in nature
Medicinal herb origin: the whole grass of Amaranthus edulis, family Amaranthaceae.
Use and Dosage
Internally: decoction, 10-15g, fresh 30-60g; or twisted juice. External use: appropriate amount, pounding compress; burnt ash powder dressing; or decoction of water to wash.
Originally from China Materia Medica
[edit paragraph]Therapeutic value
The stems and leaves or the whole grass of the herb Amaranthus equinus of the family Amaranthaceae. Also known as horse amaranth, horse tooth vegetable, five lines of grass, long life vegetable, sour amaranth, anle vegetable. Wild in most parts of China. Harvested in summer and fall, washed and used, or scalded and dried for spare.
[Properties] Sweet, sour flavor, cold nature. It can clear heat and detoxify, diuretic and stop bleeding.
[Reference]Containing a large amount of norepinephrine, a large amount of potassium salts, beriberic acid, oxalic acid, amino acids (glutamic acid, aspartic acid, alanine), carotene, vitamins B1, B2, C, niacin, sugar, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other ingredients.
It has an inhibitory effect on Escherichia coli, dysentery bacillus, typhoid bacillus and Staphylococcus aureus. It can contract the uterus and blood vessels. In addition, it can diuretic.
[Usage] It is used for dysentery or damp-heat diarrhea; carbuncle and malignant sores, intestinal carbuncle; feverish drenching, incontinence of urine, damp-heat leucorrhea in women; excessive menstruation in women, disintegration, postpartum hemorrhage, or blood in urine and stool.
[Usage] Decoct soup, drink the juice, or eat cold.
[Note]It is not suitable for people with cold spleen and stomach, intestinal slippery diarrhea.
[Square]
1, amaranth porridge: amaranth 250g, round-grained rice 60g. round-grained rice with the right amount of water, boiled into thin porridge, amaranth chopped down, cooked. Fasting food.
Originally from "Sheng Hui Fang". This formula takes amaranth to clear heat and detoxification, cure dysentery and stop bleeding, with round-grained rice to benefit the stomach and the middle. It is used for dysentery with blood in the stool and diarrhea with dampness and heat.
2, amaranth juice: amaranth 1, pounded, twisted juice 30ml, add 100ml of cold boiled water, sugar, take. Served 3 times a day.
This formula takes amaranth to clear away heat and detoxification, eliminating carbuncle and swelling. It is effective for acute appendicitis (intestinal carbuncle) in mild cases.
The "Jing effect birth treasure" to amaranth pounded, twisted juice, decoction of a boil, add the right amount of honey to mix the service. The treatment of postpartum blood, urinary incontinence. The method is similar, but its meaning is different.
3, amaranth protein soup: amaranth 250g, mashed and twisted juice, 2 eggs, take the egg white and amaranth stirred, washed into boiling water. Take 2 times a day.
Originally from the sea set prescription. Amaranth has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins and inducing dampness, and the egg white has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins slightly and has the effect of tonicity. The original formula is used for the red and white belt, said "regardless of the old and young pregnant women can be served", indicating that the nature of this formula is calm.
4, amaranth fresh lotus root juice: amaranth, fresh lotus root were twisted juice, equal amount of mixing. Each time you take 2 spoons.
The amaranth and fresh lotus root juice is used to clear heat and stop bleeding, and amaranth has a diuretic effect. It is used for blood in urine, hemorrhagic drenching and blood in stool.
5, amaranth shredded meat soup :taste: unique flavor, salty and fresh
Main ingredients: 150 grams of lean pork, 250 grams of amaranth, 2 cloves of garlic, starch, amaranth shredded meat soup powder
Seasoning: 25 grams of cooking oil, soy sauce 2 tsp. 2 tsp. fine salt
1, lean pork, washed, cut into julienne strips, marinate in soy sauce, starch;
2, amaranth choose clean, and cut the meat into julienne strips.
2, amaranth choose clean, pinch off; garlic washed and pounded into a puree;
3, the pot of oil, hot, fragrant garlic paste, add the right amount of water, under the amaranth to cook until six mature;
4, add shredded meat to cook, seasoned with fine salt can be.
Flu food treatment eat amaranth to help prevent influenza A
Amaranth is a medicinal natural wild vegetables. The nutritionist of the Third Hospital of Canton Medicine, Dr. Zeng Qingshan, introduced from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, said that the amaranth is cold and cold in nature, and it can be eaten to promote water and remove dampness and brighten the eyes, and its effect of clearing heat and removing toxins is stronger than that of the common amaranth. If people with cold spleen and stomach and diarrhea need to eat it, they should add ginger (when stir-frying) or red dates (when making soup) in order to adjust its coolness. Modern nutritional research has found that amaranth has a strong antiseptic and anti-inflammatory effect, can be used for a variety of inflammatory diseases adjuvant therapy, so together with garlic and so on are categorized as "natural antibiotics". Recently, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine announced a dietary plan to prevent influenza A. It is recommended that fresh amaranth be consumed, but because of its high oxalic acid content, it is best to blanch it in boiling water and then put it into the dish.
Recommended food (a): yellow cauliflower amaranth drink
Materials: 30 grams of fresh cauliflower, 30 grams of fresh amaranth (a person); appropriate amount of sugar; practice: wash and add two bowls of water into a bowl of water, the right amount of sugar for flavor; role: clearing the heat and dampness and eyesight, especially suitable for long-term stay up late on the fire people drink.
Eating method recommended (2): cold fresh amaranth
Materials: fresh amaranth 30 to 60 grams (a person amount), appropriate amount of garlic juice, vinegar and sesame oil; practice: amaranth washed and blanched with boiled water, cooled down and drizzled with the appropriate amount of garlic juice, vinegar and sesame oil, mix well; role: sterilization and anti-inflammatory, detoxification of heat and helps to prevent the influenza A