The efficacy and role of amaranth
Amaranth has a very good food, medicinal value as well as efficacy, that amaranth efficacy you know what? Here I take you to understand one by one!
1, clearing heat and cooling blood to cure dysentery. The main treatment of feverish blood dysentery and damp-heat dysentery. Amaranth can eliminate abdominal masses, quench thirst, and treat women's red and white belts.
2, anti-heat, detoxification and carbuncle. It can cure fire sores and ulcers. Amaranth has the effect of detoxification, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, swelling. It has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on diabetes.
3, amaranth juice has a significant effect on smooth muscle, with it made of drinks have eyesight. Amaranth acid cold, into the heart meridian go blood, function of cool blood stop bleeding, detoxification canker; into the large intestine and good cool blood treatment of dysentery. For blood dysentery, sores and poisons commonly used.
4, amaranth is also a rare natural high potassium food, due to the lack of intracellular potassium will lead to a decrease in cellular water content, and intracellular water decline is positively correlated with cellular aging, eating amaranth can keep blood potassium and intracellular potassium at normal levels.
5, amaranth can cure skin diseases
Amaranth into the heart meridian, can clear the heart fire. It enters the lung meridian and can disperse lung heat. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine says: "All pain and itchy sores belong to the heart. And the lungs are in charge of the skin and fur. That is to say, all kinds of canker sores, ulcers, wet ringworm, are related to heart fire and lung heat. Amaranth not only clears heart fire, but also disperses lung heat, and its detoxification effect goes to both the blood and skin, both internal and external treatment, so for the above mentioned skin problems have efficacy. Regulate skin diseases, can be taken internally and externally both, the fresh amaranth mashed in the affected area, or with the dried product boiled water to soak in the bath, are very good method.
1, amaranth flowers can still eat, but the taste is not good! If the flowering but the branches and leaves are relatively fat, it is still delicious. However, if it starts to bear seeds in the late flowering stage, it is generally more difficult to eat.
2, can. As long as you remove its flowers and seeds, the horse-teeth water pipe will not be old. After blanching, can be cold, can make buns. Amaranth is not only a medicinal herb, but also a delicacy.
How to eat amaranth1, cold mixed with fresh eating. Wash the horse lettuce with boiling water blanch, fish out into the cool water soak, and then squeeze out the water, put into the dish, put the garlic, a little salt, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, mix well.
2, pancakes to eat. Horse lettuce washed and blanched, fished out to cool, put into a pot, add the right amount of flour and salt, and then into the egg a, green onion moderate, and into a paste, standby. Put a little peanut oil in the pan, when the oil is hot, put and good paste, fry a good side of the stereotypes after the reverse and then fry the other side, fried until cooked.
3, made into dried vegetables. In the summer and fall when the amaranth is most abundant, pick some home, fried in boiling water, drying up. In winter or the Chinese New Year, the dry amaranth soaked well, chopped up, put into the meat, a little chives (to enhance the flavor), salt, sesame oil, wrapped into a large steamed bun. The flavor of dry vegetables is more special, but also the same beautiful and delicious, the Spring Festival time to eat, but also to take a good omen, horse lettuce, immediately, wealth! I prepared a lot of dry horse lettuce this year, to the Spring Festival, sent to the sister sister them, so that they also use this wild vegetable package a big steamed bag to eat, eat out of the good omen.
4, make soup. Amaranth and shredded meat to make soup, before leaving the pot to throw on the egg.
5. Stir fry. Amaranth can be fried with shredded meat, scrambled eggs.
Amaranth is widely distributed, and tenacious, often wild in the ridge, ditch, roadside and a variety of dry land, spring and summer, amaranth thrive, the most luxuriant stems and leaves, fields, especially ridges and roadsides, it is easy to pick. In recent years, with the increase in consumption, it has begun to turn into artificial cultivation.
6, amaranth fried dried beans
Preparation materials: amaranth (dry) 50 grams, dried tofu 3 blocks, salad oil, salt 1/2 teaspoon, monosodium glutamate a little, 1 tablespoon of soy sauce, 4 red bell pepper, 4 cloves of garlic, 12 bell pepper. Directions: Pour the dried amaranth into a fine sieve and rinse with water 3 or 4 times, then drain and set aside. Dried beans cut into grains, chili peppers and garlic flattened and chopped spare. Stir frying pan than usual frying more vegetable oil to heat, pour in crushed garlic to stir fry the flavor, then pour in the cut dried beans and chili peppers together and stir fry evenly until the spicy flavor floats out. Then pour into the drained water amaranth dry together with high-fire stir-fry for about 2 minutes, and then add soy sauce, salt and monosodium glutamate stir-fry can be.
7, amaranth lean bamboo shoots dried soup
Preparation materials: amaranth moderate amount, bamboo shoots dried moderate amount, pork moderate amount, salt moderate amount, chicken essence moderate amount, water moderate amount. Slice the pork. Put cooking wine, ginger water, cornstarch marinade for a while, dried bamboo shoots soaked and torn into dried bamboo shoots long silk, amaranth clean, cut into segments. Put the dried bamboo shoots in a casserole dish, add water and cook through, then pour in the meat and boil. When the meat slices change color, and then put into the amaranth slightly open, add salt, chicken essence can be.