Amaranth cures high blood pressure
Amaranth has a sweet taste and cool properties, helps clear heat, cool blood, diuretic, antiseptic, treats bee venom, snake venom, allergies, itching, dysentery, hepatitis and jaundice.
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There are many types of amaranth. The large, purple-red leafed type is red amaranth, amaranth soup; the characteristic is that the stem is succulent, cooks quickly, and is better when cooked in soup. The small, green leafed type is white amaranth, green amaranth or rice amaranth. Spiny amaranth grows wild.
Amaranth is rich in vitamins A, B, C, PP and contains nearly 10 essential amino acids, but this vegetable is cold and can easily cause diarrhea (especially the purple type), so it should not be used with cold foods such as blood and soft-shelled turtle.
Amaranth is a popular food. The stem and leaves are often boiled or cooked into soup. Amaranth is sweet and cool, helps to clear heat, cool the blood, diuretic, antiseptic, treat bee venom, snake bites, allergies, itching, dysentery, hepatitis and jaundice. To treat postpartum diseases, use amaranth to cook soup or grind the water to cook porridge.
To prevent and treat allergies, reduce the harmful effects of radiation, take this vegetable, chop it, boil 300ml of water and add it; when it boils again, add 50g of sliced pork liver that has been marinated and stir-fried with garlic. If you want to prevent disease, eat it 2-3 times a week, if you want to treat it, eat it once a day.
Amaranth is used to boil, stir-fry, and cook soup. It is sweeter than red amaranth; it is used as medicine similar to red amaranth, but the vegetable has diuretic effects and cures cystitis. To cure constipation, high blood pressure, headaches, dizziness, and hot flashes, take 250g of amaranth, boil for 3 minutes, remove and mix with sesame oil or black sesame powder, and eat with rice. Amaranth seeds have a sweet taste and are cold. To cool the liver, eliminate wind-heat, and cure poor eyesight, use the following medicine: Amaranth powder, drink with cassia seed decoction.
Sleeping (Cassia seed) 12g. To increase urination, use 20g amaranth decoction. Amaranth is also good for energy, clears urination and defecation, and eliminates roundworms.
Crush the amaranth leaves, add water, strain the juice and drink, apply the residue to treat centipede bites, bee stings, and itching. The whole plant contains a lot of potassium salts, so it is a diuretic and cures fever. Amaranth leaves treat pneumonia and dysentery. Crush and apply to treat burns and pus-filled boils.
According to Dr. Tran Tuan Khanh - Knowledge