Prickly heat belongs to the category of “prickly heat sores” in Chinese medicine. Amaranth can be used with other medicines for internal treatment or decoction to wash the affected area, the efficacy of using amaranth alone is limited and may not be able to play a therapeutic role, and the above medicines need to be guided by a doctor.
Prickly heat belongs to the category of “prickly heat sore” in Chinese medicine, which is caused by summer dampness and steam, and poor sweat drainage. Mostly seen in hot summer, treatment should be clear summer detoxification diuretic.
The dry aboveground part of Amaranthaceae plant Amaranthus vulgaris. Sour flavor, cold nature. Attributed to the liver, large intestine meridian. Can clear heat and detoxification, cool blood to stop bleeding, stop dysentery. It is used for fever and blood dysentery (dysentery caused by feeling heat and poison, and seeing blood in the stool), carbuncle, furuncle, eczema, dengtoxin (acute infectious disease, the skin is red like paint), snake and insect bites, blood in the stool, hemorrhoidal blood, bleeding from the leakage of menstruation (menstruation is too much or more than just a few drops).
Amaranth is cold in nature, so it should be used with caution by people with cold spleen and stomach. If medication is needed, it must be guided by a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, do not use medication on your own to avoid delaying your condition.