Amaranth can detoxify and clear heat, cool blood and stop dysentery (clearing heat and cooling blood, eliminating dysentery, etc.), can be freshly pounded and applied wet, or decocted and boiled in soup and applied wet.
Amaranth can be used internally to treat dysentery caused by heat (dysentery caused by feeling heat, see blood in stool), manifested by abdominal pain, diarrhea, diarrhea, pus and blood (diarrhea, pus and blood in feces), and anal distension and the feeling of having a bowel movement.
Amaranth also treats blood-heat-induced metrorrhagia (excessive or spotting menstruation), blood in the stool, and bleeding hemorrhoids.
Amaranth can be used externally as a wet compress to treat carbuncles and sores caused by heat, etc. Fresh amaranth can usually be washed, then pounded and applied to the affected area; dried amaranth can also be soaked and decocted, and then after the liquid is cooled down to room temperature, gauze is dabbed with the liquid to apply a wet compress.
Amaranth should be taken with caution if the spleen and stomach are cold, and wet compresses should not be applied if the skin is ulcerated, as the adverse effects are not exact.
The use of Amaranth requires the guidance of a medical professional.