Chinese Medicine Properties

The family is the young stems and leaves of Amaranthus equinus, family Amaranthaceae.

Alias Long Life Vegetable, Longevity Vegetable, Five-Way Grass, Horse Bee Vegetable, Horse Horse Vegetable.

These are cold in nature and sweet and sour in flavor; they enter the heart, liver, spleen and large intestine meridians.

Effects and IndicationsClearing heat and removing toxins, inducing diuresis and removing dampness, dispersing blood and eliminating swelling, removing dust and sterilizing bacteria, reducing inflammation and relieving pain, stopping bleeding and cooling blood. Indications: dysentery, enteritis, nephritis, postpartum uterine bleeding, blood in stool, mastitis.

Dispersing blood and swelling, diuresis, detoxification and drenching, post-partum sweating (Shi Zhen)

Invention [Shi Zhen said] amaranth of the main diseases, are only to take its ability to disperse blood and swelling. [2]

Chinese medicine name: amaranth, amaranth seed.

Medicinal Name Medicinal Part Flavor Effects

Maranthine Amaranth The whole herb of the plant is used in medicine. It is sour in taste, cold in nature, and is used for clearing away heat and removing toxins, cooling the blood and stopping dysentery, and removing dampness and clearing away drenchings. Brighten the eyes

Note: For a detailed description of medicinal uses, see the corresponding wikipedia entry. External use: fresh amaranth to take the juice of water, used in the treatment of eczema dermatitis type of acute erythema oozing stage, with the collection of dampness to stop itching, clearing heat to reduce swelling. It can be used for cosmetic dermatitis, eczema, atopic dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, hormone-dependent dermatitis, cystitis, other allergic dermatitis see erythema, pimples, oozing, edema, pain and itching. Amaranth

Pregnant women, especially those with habitual abortion, should be prohibited from consuming amaranth; amaranth has abortifacient function.

The amaranth can treat all kinds of swollen fistulas by crushing the amaranth and rubbing it on the affected area.

Amaranth eliminates abdominal masses, quenches thirst, and treats reddish leucorrhea in women.

Pounding amaranth can cure snake wrapping around the waist.

Nutritional composition

Each 100g of amaranth fresh amaranth stems and leaves contains 2.3g of protein, 0.5g of fat, 3g of sugar, 0.7g of crude fiber, 85mg of calcium, 56mg of phosphorus, 1.5mg of iron giant, 2.23mg of carotenoids, vitamin B1?0.03mg, vitamin B2?0.11mg, vitamin PP?0.7mg. Vitamin C?23mg. In addition, it also contains a large amount of norepinephrine, potassium salt and rich in citric acid, malic acid, amino acids and alkaloids and other ingredients.

1) Amaranth Gorgonzola Lean Meat Soup

Making? Amaranth medicinal meal (Figure 3) amaranth 50g, Gorgon fruit 100g, lean pork 150g, refined salt, monosodium glutamate each moderate. Will amaranth pick the root, old yellow leaves, wash with water, cut into sections; lean pork cut into dice, gorgonzola washed. Amaranth, Gorgonzola, lean pork into the net pot, add an appropriate amount of water, first boil with the fire, and then with the fire can be boiled for 2 hours, add salt, monosodium glutamate seasoning.

Effectiveness of the product has a clear heat and detoxification, dampness and stop the effect of bandwagon, suitable for damp-heat injection, bandwagon color yellow, sticky smell, short yellow urine, thirst and bitterness, red tongue, yellow fur, slippery pulse, can also be used for damp-heat diarrhea, dysentery, and so on.

(2) sweet and sour amaranth

Making amaranth 200 to 250g, vinegar 30g, sugar. After washing amaranth, decoct 250g of juice, remove the dregs, add vinegar, sugar, mix well and drink. Above is 1 day's quantity, drink it once or twice on an empty stomach with warmth, and take it for 3 days as a course of treatment. If you need to carry out the second and third course of treatment, you can interval half a month to take again.

EfficacyThis product has anthelmintic effect and is suitable for pediatric hookworm disease.

(3) amaranth scrambled eggs

Making amaranth 60g, 4 eggs, refined salt, cooking wine, peanut oil, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate each moderate. Amaranth soak in warm water for 10 minutes, remove the roots, old yellow leaves, wash with water, cut into segments, standby. Beat the eggs, add amaranth to mix, add salt, cooking wine, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate seasoning. Wash the frying pan, add peanut oil, hot, the amaranth and eggs into the pan fried, while hot with meals.

Effectiveness of the product has clear heat and detoxification, stop diarrhea and dysentery, in addition to intestinal scum, beneficial to the gas to replenish the effect of deficiency, is suitable for the treatment of dysentery for a long time.

(4) amaranth porridge

Make 250g amaranth, 60g round-grained rice. First, the amaranth chopped spare, in the round-grained rice with the right amount of water into thin porridge, and then into the chopped amaranth, cooked can be.

EffectsThis product is mainly used for dysentery with blood in the stool, damp-heat diarrhea.

(5) amaranth protein soup

production of 250g amaranth pounded and twisted juice, 2 eggs, take its egg white and amaranth stirred, with boiling water.

EffectsThis product is divided into 2 times a day, mainly used for the red and white under the belt.

(6) Amaranth Fresh Lotus Root Juice

Make the juice of amaranth and fresh lotus root, and then take equal amount of juice and mix it.

EffectsThis product is taken 2 spoons at a time and has the effect of clearing heat and stopping bleeding, mainly used for blood in urine, hemorrhagic drenching and blood in stool.

(7) amaranth mixed with shredded chicken

This is a cold dish, in addition to light appetizing, its effect is not small, can promote uterine contraction and increase resistance, for the post-partum recovery of the effect is very good, it is the best summer food for mothers in the month.

Materials

Materials

Amaranth 200g, 50g of shredded chicken, 10g of wolfberries, black sesame seeds 2g, sesame oil 5 weeks, salt 3g

Practice

Amaranth, shredded chicken washed and spare.

The amaranth, goji berries, shredded chicken were boiled in boiling water until cooked, and immediately soaked in ice water to cool, and then picked up and drained.

Mix the ingredients in Method 2 with black sesame seeds, salt, and sesame oil.

Therapeutic effects

1. water retention and swelling

Lower blood pressure Amaranth contains a large amount of potassium salts, has a good effect on water retention and swelling; potassium ions can also be directly on the blood vessel wall, so that the wall of the blood vessel to dilate, to prevent the arterial wall to prevent the thickening of the arterial wall, so as to play a role in lowering the blood pressure.

2. Eliminate dust poison

Prevent ulcers amaranth can eliminate dust poison, prevent phagocytosis degeneration and necrosis, but also can prevent lymphatic inflammation and prevent fibrous changes, put an end to the formation of silicosis nodules, vitiligo also has a certain degree of efficacy; amaranth also contains a high number of carotenoids, can promote the healing of ulcer disease.

3. Antibacterial anti-inflammatory

Amaranth on dysentery bacillus, typhoid bacillus and E. coli has a strong inhibitory effect, can be used for a variety of inflammatory diseases of auxiliary treatment, known as "natural antibiotics," said.

4. Prevention and treatment of heart disease

Amaranth contains a rich Y-3 fatty acids, which can inhibit the generation of serum cholesterol and triglyceride acid in the body, to help the synthesis of prostaglandins synthesized by vascular endothelial cells increase, inhibit platelet formation of thromboxane A2, so that the blood viscosity decreases, prompting the expansion of blood vessels, you can prevent the aggregation of blood platelets, coronary artery spasms and thrombosis, thus playing a role in the prevention and treatment of heart disease

Amaranth has a strong inhibitory effect. Thus playing a role in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.

1. amaranth porridge

fresh amaranth 100g, 50g round-grained rice, scallion 5g. amaranth clean, into the boiling water off for a moment, fish out of the wash mucus, chopped; frying pan is hot, put people onion parochial incense, and then cast the amaranth, add fine salt stir-fried to the taste of the people, out of the pan to be used; round-grained rice washed clean, put the people in the pot, add the right amount of water to cook, put the amaranth to cook until the porridge, out of the pot is ready. Porridge, out of the pot that is. This food is light and fresh, unique flavor, with heat detoxification, spleen and stomach effects. Applicable to enteritis, dysentery, urinary tract infections, sores, carbuncles and toxins and other diseases.

2. cold amaranth

Fresh amaranth 500g, garlic cloves. The amaranth root, remove the old stems, wash under the boiling water pot body through the fish; wash with water many times to clean the mucus, cut into a plate; garlic cloves pounded into garlic, poured on the amaranth, pouring soy sauce, dripping sesame oil, eaten when mixing is complete. This dish is green and fragrant, into a fresh and delicious, with heat and dysentery, hair beauty effect. Can be used as moist heat dysentery, vitiligo patients and due to the lack of copper elements caused by white hair patients auxiliary therapeutic dishes.

3. amaranth fried chicken

Fresh amaranth for 400g, chicken breast 100g, onion, ginger 10g, egg white 1. Will be clean, drained standby; chicken breast cut thin, put in a bowl, add salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), cooking wine, and then put the egg white, wet starch evenly; frying spoon on medium heat, add oil and burned to 50 percent heat, under the chicken silk scratch, pour into the spoon to drain the oil; frying spoon on high heat, add oil and burned to seventy percent heat, bias shallots, ginger, under the amaranth, cooking wine, broth, fried to the break, under the salt, MSG, chicken silk fried, and then put the wet starch Thin thickening, and finally dripping sesame oil, plate can be. This dish from the green, tender and crisp, with the spleen and stomach, detoxification and swelling effect. Spleen deficiency does not want to eat, sores and swollen poisons, urinary disorders and other diseases patients have a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect. [3]

4. Amaranth pig liver soup

Amaranth 45g, 30g of golden broccoli, cooked pig liver 50g, egg mutual. The amaranth is washed, chopped; gold cabbage after the water into segments; pig liver washed, cut into thin slices; the amaranth, gold cabbage in a pot, add water to cook for 15 minutes, and then add the pig liver slightly stewed, beat the egg, to be boiled and then adjusted to the salt, monosodium glutamate that is. This soup is tender and fragrant, into the fresh flavor, with the benefit of the liver and eyesight, wide in the efficacy of the lower gas. Applicable to liver blood deficiency, spleen congestion, night blindness, body fatigue and other diseases.

Amaranth Buns

Main ingredients: 500g of flour, 200g of dried amaranth, 100g of oil tofu, a little fat pork. Seasoning: refined salt, monosodium glutamate, vegetarian oil. Amaranth soaked in warm water, remove impurities and wash with oil tofu, fat pork with chopped. The three together into a pot, add refined salt, monosodium glutamate, oil, mix well into the filling. Put the flour into the soaking good leavening head of the basin and into the dough, put in a warm place to fermentation, the fermentation of the dough into the alkaline water to neutralize the acidity, kneaded well and rolled into a long strip, pulled into a small noodle agent, rolled into a package of dough, packaged into a raw buns, steamed in a cage is complete.

Pay attention to the top

Maranth is cold products, weak spleen and stomach, cold caused by diarrhea, diarrhea and pregnant women should not eat; avoid eating with pepper, the powder; should not be eaten with turtle, otherwise it will lead to indigestion, food poisoning and other diseases.

Pharmacological effects

1. Antibacterial effect Ethanol extract has a high degree of inhibition of Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis, dysentery bacillus, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever bacillus. Staphylococcus aureus, fungi such as Audu ounce of small budding ringworm, Mycobacterium tuberculosis also have different degrees of inhibition. It has a mild inhibitory effect on Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Experiments show that in the test tube (1:4) on dysentery bacilli have bactericidal effect, this bactericidal effect is not due to the strong acidity of the drug itself. Decoction at 18.75-37.5mg/ml concentration, Shiga, Sonnen, S and Fei's dysentery bacillus have inhibitory effect, but with the amaranth multiple contact culture can produce significant resistance. When mice were infected with E. coli by intraperitoneal injection, it was ineffective with alcoholic extract or decoction of residue after alcoholic extraction.

2. Action on uterus Clinical and animal experiments show that amaranth has a contraction effect on the uterus. Amaranth crushed and squeezed juice, to the maternal oral 6 to 8 ml, uterine contraction strength than oral 4 ml of ergot infusion ointment for strong. Amaranth injection had a significant excitatory effect on the isolated uterus of guinea pigs, rats, rabbits, and the in situ uterus of rabbits and dogs. 2 ml of amaranth injection was stronger than ergometrine 0.2 mg, and weaker than that of posterior pituitary hormone 10 units, while the intensity of the effect of amaranth injection with 4-6 ml of amaranth was comparable to that of posterior pituitary hormone 10 units. The active ingredient for uterine contraction may be potassium chloride. The study of the components of the uterine contractile action of Amaranthus proved that it has two opposite effects on the uterus of animals, one excitatory and the other inhibitory. It is inorganic potassium salt that has excitatory effect, and it can be used medicinally as potassium chloride; it is organic component that has inhibitory effect.

3. The effect on smooth muscle Amaranthus preparations on the isolated rat ileum has a significant contraction, the effect is similar to the role of prostaglandin?E? and neostigmine excitation of intestinal smooth muscle.

4.? Other effects The decoction has an inhibitory effect on isolated frog heart and isolated guinea pig small intestine. Give anesthetized dogs an intravenous injection of 20% decoction 3ml/only, there is no significant effect on their blood pressure. Water-soluble and fat-soluble extracts prolonged the lives of certain tetroxinic diabetic rats and rabbits without affecting blood glucose levels, which may be attributed to amelioration of disorders of lipid metabolism in the animals. Amaranthus has a significant vasoconstrictive effect on blood vessels. It also promotes the growth of epithelial cells and favors ulcer healing.

Cosmetic effects

Margodon grandiflorus is rich in nutrients, with a high content of protein, calcium, iron and zinc, as well as carotenoids, a variety of vitamins and amino acids, which predispose it to become a plant rich in medicinal value. Traditional Chinese medicine utilizes the antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects of horse chestnut to treat eczema dermatitis, abscesses, and acne-prone skin.

Mash the amaranth grass into juice and apply it directly to the affected area, or add honey to mix water as a mask to use, wait for about 20 minutes, and then use water to thoroughly clean the face can be, instantly can cool the skin. [4]

The medicinal function of the horse's toothwort is to clear away heat and detoxify, cool the blood and stop bleeding. Because it is rich in norepinephrine, it can promote the secretion of insulin by the pancreas, regulate the process of human sugar metabolism, reduce blood glucose concentration, and keep blood glucose constant, so it has a certain therapeutic effect on diabetes. In addition, it also contains an unsaturated fatty acid called 3-W, which can inhibit the generation of cholesterol and triglycerides, and has a protective effect on cardiovascular.