Carcinogenic and anticarcinogenic are terms used in Western medicine, where carcinoma refers to cancer, which in Chinese medicine falls under the category of “cancerous diseases”. There is no authoritative evidence to suggest that amaranth has a carcinogenic risk or anti-cancer effect.
Amaranth is the dried above-ground part of the plant Amaranthaceae, cold in nature, with the effect of cooling the blood to stop bleeding, clearing away heat and detoxification, and stopping dysentery.
It can be used for carbuncle boils, snake and insect bites, dengteng (acute infectious disease, visible skin red like paint), eczema, hemorrhoidal blood, blood in the stool, leakage (excessive menstruation or more than a few drops of blood) blood, pyrexia dysentery (dysentery caused by feeling heat and poison, see blood in the stool), postpartum dysentery and other conditions. This drug should be avoided by people with cold spleen and stomach, and intestinal slippage for leakage.
In terms of traditional efficacy, function and daily consumption, amaranth has no anticancer properties, and there is no authoritative evidence to suggest an anticancer effect, and there is no authoritative evidence to suggest that amaranth carries a risk of causing cancer.
It is recommended that amaranth be used under the supervision of a physician if there is a need to fight cancer. The use of medication should be under the guidance of a professional physician, and should not be taken on its own, in order to avoid delaying the condition.