Using Amaranth to Get Rid of Acne

Pimples is acne, belongs to the category of acne in Chinese medicine, the use of amaranth to get rid of acne can be decoction of soup for internal use, external use of pounded compresses on the affected area, etc., but also can be combined with dandelion and other herbs. Lung wind acne is a disease with pimples on the face, chest, and back, the top of which is like a thorn, and white rice-like material may appear when squeezed. Amaranth has the effects of clearing heat and removing toxins, stopping bleeding, cooling blood and stopping dysentery. It is used for carbuncle furuncle (at the beginning of small pus head like corn grain, the onset of rapid, deep root hard as nails, the beginning of numbness and itching and pain is slight, then redness, swelling and burning, pain aggravation), eczema, dengteng (acute infectious disease, see the skin reddish like painted), hemorrhoidal blood, blood in the stool, snake and insect bites, and so on. Amaranth’s heat-clearing and detoxifying effect, for lung wind acne belongs to the heat evidence has a certain therapeutic effect, the use of decoction of soup for internal use, or fresh products for external use, mashed and applied externally to the affected area. It can also be used together with other heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs, such as honeysuckle, dandelion, big green leaf, white flower snake tongue grass, etc. It can also be used in the treatment of lung wind acne. Pregnant women and people with spleen deficiency and loose stools (thin and unformed feces) should be cautious of taking Amaranthus. Adverse effects of this product are not clear. It should be used under the guidance of a doctor for evidence-based medicine.