Alias longevity vegetable, five lines of grass, anle, amaranth, sour rice vegetable, longevity vegetable

The sex and flavor attributed to the meridian nature of cold, sweet and sour taste; into the heart, liver, spleen, large intestine meridian.

SourceThis product is the dried above-ground part of Portulaca oleracea L., family Amaranthaceae. It is harvested in summer and fall, and the residual roots and impurities are removed, washed, slightly steamed or scalded, and then dried in the sun.

Functions and Indications is used in dysentery (half-dry and half-scarce stools), clearing away heat and detoxification, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Used for fever and blood dysentery, carbuncle boils, eczema, dengteng, snake and insect bites, blood in stools, hemorrhoidal blood, blood leakage. Mostly used in modern times for the treatment of enteritis, acute arthritis, cystitis, urethritis, anal inflammation, bleeding hemorrhoids and so on.

It is suitable for people with gastrointestinal tract infections; for people with rough and dry skin, vitamin A deficiency, corneal chondromalacia, ocular dryness, night blindness; for children with simple diarrhea, children with whooping cough; for patients with hookworm disease; for women with reddish-white discharge and pregnant women when in labor; for silicosis patients.

Contraindications where the spleen and stomach are weak, diarrhea and loose stools are contraindicated; pregnant women, especially pregnant women with habitual abortion contraindications, because amaranth is cold and slippery, too much food. It is not recommended for pregnant women, especially pregnant women with habitual miscarriage, because amaranth is cold and slippery in nature. According to the former experience, amaranth avoid eating with turtle, otherwise it will make the utility of gastrointestinal dyspepsia, food poisoning. The Classic of the Materia Medica: "It does not turn white in the long run, but it is always said that it cools the blood and benefits the blood, and the function of removing the disease and making the body lighter." Justice of the Materia Medica: "Amaranth ...... for women's red and white under the belt, this disease is mostly caused by dampness and heat stagnation, cold and slippery to guide, and dampness and heat can be drained, but also into the blood to break the blood stasis, so it is also a cure for the red belt. The lake is said to dissipate blood swelling, diarrhea slippery fetus, detoxification through the shower, and no one is not cold slippery two words of achievement."

"Materia Medica": "Where the spleen and stomach cold, intestinal slippage for leakage do not use. Decoction bait formula shall not be entered with turtle armor."

Consumption method

1, the fresh amaranth Sin, in addition to the water, directly add seasonings stir-fried.

2, the amaranth in addition to the water after the sun to half-dry and then stir-fried, so that the fried vegetables with a little pickle flavor.

3, the amaranth in addition to water and then sun 3-5 days, until completely dry, conducive to long storage, eat as you take. When you eat it, you can soak it in water, wash it and steam it with meat or burn it, similar to the practice of "steamed meat with dried plums".