Amaranth is not well known to the general public, but for those who understand Chinese medicine, it can be considered a good medicine for many diseases. As Mao Zedong said, "Amaranth, both edible and medicinal."

Medicinal Value of Amaranth :

According to Chinese medicine, amaranth is cold in nature, sour in taste, and belongs to the liver and large intestine meridian, which has the efficacy of clearing away heat and detoxifying the toxin, cooling the blood and stopping dysentery, removing dampness, and clearing up the gonorrhea.

Amaranth can eliminate the role of inflammation, the elimination of inflammation is mainly dependent on the elements inside the amaranth, these elements make the amaranth is known as a "natural antibiotic" medicine, because some elements inside the drug, there is a certain resistance to inflammation, and then appeared to eliminate the role of inflammation.

The medicinal value of amaranth is also to reduce swelling and lower blood pressure. This effect is due to the potassium in Amaranthus, an element that decelerates the circulation of blood pressure, which in turn allows the elimination of the aggregated stagnant blood, in addition to the thickness of the walls of the blood vessels, which reduces the effect of blood pressure.

Natural "antimicrobial"

Amaranth has a "natural sterilizing agent", the biggest effect of amaranth is good at the treatment of colorectal disease, E. coli, typhoid fever, dysentery bacillus, etc. are inhibitory, especially on the dysentery bacillus, which is very strong. The effect of dysentery bacillus is very strong, the appearance of dysentery, will make the patient's stomach is very uncomfortable, the use of amaranth can be very good to lift the problem of this difficult stomach.

Delay the aging of the long-lived flower

Amaranth rich in vitamin E in the removal of free radicals, anti-aging, beauty and other aspects of the efficacy has long been confirmed. At the same time, selenium, which is rich in amaranth, has been shown in modern research to have an antioxidant and cancer cell inhibiting effect.

Amaranth can condition the skin

The medicinal value of amaranth is that it can get rid of prickly heat because of fever, and the way to get rid of it is very simple, that is, to use amaranth to soak in water, and the temperature of the water is preferably lukewarm, not too low, and then take a bath in the soaked water, which can be a very good way to get rid of prickly heat.

Amaranth can also treat mouth ulcers, which is mainly due to the large number of carotenoids in amaranth, it is because of these carotenoids that the symptoms of mouth ulcers disappeared, so that the mouth becomes healthier.

Chairman Mao's favorite dish

Yan'an hard days, the loess slopes have very little wild vegetables, but can find the tenacity of the horse's toothwort, and the relevant departments also proved that the horse's toothwort is rich in nutrients, Chairman Mao is very love the horse's toothwort, whether it is entertaining guests, or daily food, the table has the horse's toothwort "figure".

The horse tooth vegetable taste good, refreshing and delicious, and rich in protein, crude fiber, unsaturated fatty acids and carotene, etc., nutrients and its richness, it is a pity that now the big cities rarely eat to this "good medicine good vegetables".