Amaranth has a variety of aliases, such as: five lines of grass, longevity vegetables, or horsetail and so on. Amaranth is found in all regions except the alpine zone and is distributed globally, making it one of the eighth most common plants in the world.
Particularly amaranth in water will become more and more significant, can clear heat to remove fire, blood stopping method, especially in summer, feel eating is not very good, diarrhea, you can give the amaranth to clean up the whole, and then boiled water to eat. The amaranth is also against the bleeding stools of this kind of situation certain dietary regulation effect.
Amaranth is most commonly found in the Newly Revised Materia Medica, and has been described in various generations of herbal medicines, with different names. Most of the ancient Chinese medicine books feel that amaranth is cold, acidic, non-toxic, and enters the liver, spleen and small intestine meridians, soothing the liver and regulating qi, strengthening the spleen and opening the stomach, and lubricating the intestines and removing the poisonous effect.
Folklore also often use amaranth to cure gastrointestinal diseases. In addition, the amaranth can also be used to treat some of the skin diseases, the key factor or amaranth's expectorant effect of both inside and outside the treatment, the internal blood, amateur skin. Whether taken orally, or used externally, or used orally and externally in parallel, can be very good treatment of some skin diseases.
The amaranth boiled water to eat, although the taste of the water is a little bit of a strange taste, but its role is indeed very good, in particular, can inhibit a variety of pathogenic bacteria, but also against high blood pressure, lipid thick and its myocardial infarction and other related to the prevention of is a certain effect.
Clearing heat and detoxification. When the temperature is high, the growth and development rate of amaranth is faster, then, the amaranth is used to boil water to drink, it is better for clearing the heat and detoxification, so the whole process, it can reduce the body's liver fire, and it is also helpful for avoiding the body's restlessness heat and fire.
Lowering blood fat. High blood pressure, to everyone's body is likely to produce harm, this time, if you drink some amaranth boiled water, can lower blood fat, from the amaranth in the calcium ions are more rich, can neutralize the potassium ions, for the improvement of the body, lowering the blood fat is really interesting.
Assist in eliminating edema. The amaranth used to boil water to drink, but also can have the effect of reducing edema, is also due to the calcium ions in the neutralization of potassium ions.