Do you know the miracle drug that helps clear heat and cool the liver from amaranth?
Amaranth is a very popular vegetable in the summer because it has the effect of cooling the liver and clearing heat.
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Some recent studies show that amaranth has the ability to increase the elimination of radioactive substances and detoxify because it contains many sterols and unsaturated fatty acids.
According to Oriental medicine, amaranth is sweet and cold. Red amaranth is sweet and cool, and enters the large intestine. It has the effect of clearing heat, cooling the liver, benefiting qi and opening the senses. Used for cases of dysentery, constipation, urinary disorders, red eyes, sore throat, insect bites. Use 100 - 250g daily by cooking, stir-frying, or juicing.
Red amaranth porridge: 200g red amaranth, wash, boil to get the water, cook porridge with brown rice. Eat when hungry. Used for women before and after giving birth with dysentery syndrome; used for the elderly with enteritis, dysentery.
Amaranth soup: 200g red amaranth, wash, cook soup, suitable for people with cervical cancer, dysentery syndrome, benign thyroid tumors.
Cure sore eyes: amaranth seeds, cassia seeds, equal doses of 10g. Boil in water and drink. Cure sore eyes with pterygium.
Treat rash: 10g amaranth, 10g roots or leaves of the Chinese clematis, 8g yellow flower, 8g kudzu root, 8g betel grass, 8g evening primrose, 8g pennywort, 8g purple horn vine, 6g perilla, 6g licorice, 4g mint, 2 slices of fresh ginger. Boil to drink. Treats early stage fever.
According to folk experience, crush amaranth leaves, drink the juice and use the pulp to treat snake bites. Take equal amounts of amaranth root and pumpkin root, decocted to drink to treat bleeding due to miscarriage. Take 20g of amaranth seeds, decocted to drink to treat urinary incontinence...
Contraindications: Pregnant women and people with diarrhea should limit use.
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