There is no research to confirm that amaranth can get rid of prickly heat. Amaranth has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling the blood to stop bleeding and stopping dysentery. If you need to get rid of prickly heat, it is recommended that you follow your doctor’s instructions and do not use drugs blindly.
The amaranth is sour in flavor and cold in nature. It belongs to the liver and large intestine meridian. It is mainly used in the treatment of heat-poisoned dysentery (dysentery caused by feeling heat and poison, with blood in the stool), eczema, salvia (acute infection, with reddening of the skin as if painted), snake and insect bites, blood in the stool, and hemorrhage (excessive menstrual flow or dripping).
Amaranth treats damp-heat in the large intestine, abdominal pain and diarrhea, or dysentery with pus and blood (diarrhea with pus and blood in the feces), and urgency and heaviness in the abdomen (discomfort in the lower abdomen, wanting to relieve the bowels, and feeling of incomplete defecation after defecation), and is often combined with Scutellaria baicalensis and Huanglian; it treats damp-heat in the large intestine, and hemorrhoidal blood in the stools and hemorrhoidal blood, and is often combined with Dijie, Sophora angustifolia, and Fenghuangcao.
Clinically, if the patient has discomfort symptoms, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, under the guidance of a professional physician treatment, do not self-medication.