Amaranth can be taken alone in a casserole dish with boiled water or in a decoction with other herbs, with the option of boiling the single herb once.
Amaranth is the dried above-ground part of the plant Amaranthaceae. It is sour in flavor and cold in nature. Attributed to the liver, large intestine meridian. It can clear heat and detoxify, cool blood and stop dysentery. It is used for fever and blood dysentery (dysentery caused by feeling heat and poison, seeing blood in the stool), carbuncle boils, eczema, dengteng (acute infectious disease, visible skin red like paint), snake and insect bites, blood in the stool, hemorrhoidal blood, bleeding under the leakage of menstruation (menstruation is too much or more than a few drops).
The use of amaranth boiled water to take generally recommended the use of casserole, or choose pottery, stainless steel pots, enamel pots and so on. When decocting, ordinary tap water can be used, and the amount of fire in the decoction process can be controlled to avoid too much water evaporation. A single Chinese medicine can be selected for one decoction, and if it is used with other Chinese medicines in the whole prescription, it can be selected for the second and third times of decoction.
Amaranth is cold in nature, so it should not be used by people with cold spleen and stomach; pregnant women should not use it. Chinese medicines or proprietary Chinese medicines need to be used under the guidance of a Chinese doctor, and individuals should not use them blindly to avoid adverse consequences.