Pronunciation xiàncài
Family Amaranthaceae Amaranthus annual herbs. Seedlings and young leafy stems of Amaranth.
English NameAmaranth
Alias green fragrant amaranth, red amaranth, wild prickly amaranth, rice amaranth, human dry vegetable.
The plant is cool in nature and slightly sweet in flavor; it enters the lung and large intestine meridians.
Effects and IndicationsClearing heat and inducing dampness, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding, and stopping dysentery. It is also used in treating dysentery, dysentery, sore throat, epistaxis and other diseases.
Nutritional composition per 100 grams can contain 90 .1 grams of water, 1.8 grams of protein, O.3 grams of fat, 5.4 grams of carbohydrates, 0.8 grams of crude fiber, 1.6 grams of ash, 1.95 milligrams of carotenoids, vitamins Ma 0.04 milligrams, vitamins Ma 0.16 milligrams, 1.1 milligrams of niacin, 28 milligrams of vitamin C, 180 milligrams of calcium, 46 milligrams of phosphorus. Iron 3.4 mg, Potassium 577 mg, Sodium 23 mg, Magnesium 87.7 mg, Chlorine 160 mg.
Amaranth is rich in calcium that is easily absorbed by the body, which can play a role in promoting the growth of teeth and bones, as well as maintaining normal heart muscle activity and preventing muscle spasms (cramps). It is rich in iron, calcium and vitamin K. It promotes blood clotting, increases hemoglobin content and oxygen-carrying capacity, and promotes hematopoiesis. Amaranth is also the protagonist of the weight-loss table, regular food can lose weight, promote detoxification and prevent constipation.
Therapeutic effects
1, clearing heat and detoxification, eyesight and throat amaranth is sweet and cool in nature, long for clearing dampness and heat, clearing the liver and detoxification, cooling blood and dispersing blood stasis, for dampness and heat caused by the red and white dysentery and liver fire caused by the eye and eye pain, sore throat, red, swollen and unfavorable, have a certain adjuvant therapeutic effect.
2, nutritious, strengthen the body amaranth is rich in protein, fat. Sugar and a variety of vitamins and minerals, the protein it contains more than milk can be fully absorbed by the body, containing carotene than tomatoes and fruits more than two times higher than the human body to provide a wealth of nutrients, is conducive to strengthening the body to improve the body's immunity, "longevity dish," the name.
3, promote children's growth and development of amaranth in the iron content is spinach 1 times, calcium content is 3 times, for the best of fresh vegetables. What's more, amaranth does not contain oxalic acid, and the calcium and iron contained in it are easily absorbed and utilized after entering the human body. Therefore, amaranth can promote the growth and development of children, the healing of bone fracture has certain therapeutic value.
Health care recipes
1. Cold mixed amaranth amaranth 500 grams, 5 grams of garlic. Wash amaranth, put into boiling water blanch out; garlic pounded into mud, blanched amaranth into the plate, put garlic mud, salt, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, mix well. This dish is light and cool, with the effect of appetizing food, suitable for poor gastric, diet, epigastric plumpness and other diseases.
2. amaranth and tofu soup amaranth 400 grams, 20 grams of seaweed, 250 grams of tofu, garlic 10 grams. Amaranth washed, put into the boiling water blanch, fish out and drain; water hair seaweed minced; tofu cut into small pieces, garlic pounded into mud; frying pan on the fire, add cooking oil, oil hot under the garlic, stirring out the flavor under the seaweed and tofu block, with a little salt stew 1 minute, then add water and salt; soup boiling, under the amaranth a roll that is away from the fire to fill the bowl, seasoning can be. This dish has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, promote the efficacy of the fluid and moisturize dryness, for the liver and gallbladder fire, red eyes and swollen pharynx has an auxiliary therapeutic effect.
3. Fried amaranth 250 grams of amaranth, shrimp 20 grams. Amaranth washed, take the tender tip; shrimp washed and chopped; pot on a high flame, refueling hot, under the amaranth dry fry, into the shrimp, fried. When the pot into the salt can be a little. This dish has the effect of replenishing the deficiency to help grow, especially suitable for children to eat.
4. Amaranth soup amaranth 400 grams, take the young tip clean; pot under the sesame oil, hot, into the amaranth, high-fire frying for a few moments, and then add the soup simmering, from the pot into a bowl. This dish is light and cool, can facilitate the two stools, is hot and dry constipation patients the ideal dietary therapy.
5. purple amaranth porridge purple amaranth 150 grams, 60 grams of round-grained rice. Amaranth clean, chopped, into the pot, add cleaned round-grained rice, then add the right amount of water and salt, the fire boiled, changed to the fire porridge. This porridge has the effect of clearing heat and stopping dysentery, applicable to the elderly body weakness, bowel irregularities, acute bacillary dysentery, acute enteritis and other diseases. Eat often can benefit the spleen and stomach, strong body.
Precautions
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Amaranth is cold in nature, and should not be consumed by people with yin-sheng and yang-deficiency constitution, spleen deficiency and loose stools, or chronic diarrhea.
Selected Literature
Ben Cao Tu Jing: "Purple amaranth, the main gas diarrhea; red amaranth, the main blood diarrhea."
The Compendium of Materia Medica: "Six amaranths, and benefit the large and small intestines. Treatment of initial dysentery, slippery fetus."
The Yunnan Materia Medica: "Treats incontinence of urine and faeces, transforms worms, removes cold and heat, can open the blood veins, and expel blood stasis."
"With the rest of the house dietary spectrum": "Amaranth through the nine orifices. In fact, the main Qingyu bright eyes, and the word amaranth from see."
Cultural Appreciation
Song - Su Song: "Red amaranth is also known as the flower amaranth, stems and leaves deep red, the rhizome can also be bad hide, eaten is very beautiful, the flavor of pungent."
Amaranth leaves have pinkish green, red, dark purple or with purple spot color, so the ancients divided into white amaranth, red amaranth, purple amaranth, five-color amaranth and so on several kinds. In addition, there are human amaranth and amaranth, collectively known as six amaranth.
Qing Xiao Xiong. Western Frontier Miscellaneous Poems - Garden Vegetables: "A few beds of vegetables do not become rows, white leeks and onions taste with care. Luo TV children love autumn color old, vine rose misty storage of the fragrance of the next year."
Amaranth is divided into white amaranth and red amaranth, produced in summer. When the plant is not hardened, before the buds are formed, the whole plant is pulled up or cut along the soil surface with a knife. Each 100g of young stems and leaves contains about 90.1g of water, 1.8g of protein, 5.4g of carbohydrates, 180mg of calcium, 46mg of phosphorus, 1.95mg of carotene, and 28mg of vitamin C. It can be fried for food or made into soup. The whole plant can be used as medicine. Amaranth plants are distributed all over the world. There are 13 species of Amaranthus in China. The few cultivated species are mainly distributed in China and India. Amaranth has been cultivated in China since ancient times, and was called "Amaranthus, Red Amaranth" in the Early Han Dynasty in China's "Er Ya". Now it is cultivated all over the country. Amaranth roots are more developed and widely distributed. The stem is 80-150cm high, with branches. Leaves are alternate, entire, ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, smooth or crumpled, 4-10cm long, 2-7cm wide, green, yellow-green, purple-red or mixed colors. Flowers unisexual or polygamous, in spikes; flowers small, tepals membranous, 3-parted; stamens 3, pistil stigmas 2-3, utricles momentarily orbicular, dehiscent. Seeds orbicular, purple-black glossy, 1,000-seed weight 0.7g
Source Amaranthus mangostanus L. [A. inamoenus Willd.], Amaranthaceae, is used as medicine by seeds and roots. Collected in summer and fall when the fruits are ripe, and dried separately.
The properties are sweet and cold.
Functions and Indications
Zi: Clearing the liver and brightening the eyes. Used for corneal cloudiness, eye redness and swelling pain.
Root: cooling the blood and detoxifying, stopping dysentery. Used for bacterial dysentery, enteritis, red crash and leucorrhea, hemorrhoids.
Usage with a measure of 3 to 4 money; root 0.5 to 1 two.