The medicinal name of Amaranthus is Amaranthus, and its effects include clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, etc. It can be used for treating pyrexia and dysentery (dysentery caused by feeling heat and poison, and seeing blood in stool), carbuncle and furuncle, eczema and other illnesses.
Amaranth is cold in nature, sour in taste, belonging to the liver and large intestine meridian, with the efficacy of clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, stopping dysentery, can be used for the treatment of feverish blood dysentery, carbuncle furuncle, eczema, dengtoxin (acute infectious disease, the skin can be seen to redden like paint), snake and insect bites, blood in stools, hemorrhoids, blood in the leakage (menstrual bleeding or dripping), such as bleeding and other diseases.
Amaranth can be used internally or externally, and is often decocted for internal use, while externally it should be pounded and applied to the affected area. It should be noted that the adverse reactions and contraindications of amaranth are not yet clear, cold spleen and stomach, intestinal slippery for leakage of caution.
Amaranth need to be under the guidance of a doctor to identify the evidence of the combination of treatment of disease, self-use may lead to adverse consequences.