Amaranth dried water to drink mainly has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, cooling the blood to stop bleeding and so on. Amaranth can be used as traditional Chinese medicine, the source of the drug is the dried above-ground parts of Amaranthaceae plant Amaranth, its taste sour, cold, with heat detoxification, cool blood to stop bleeding, dysentery, can be used for carbuncles, boils, eczema, blood in the stool, hemorrhoidal blood, fever and blood dysentery (feel the heat caused by dysentery, stool blood) and other diseases of the treatment. Amaranth dried in the sun and soaked in water to drink as tea also has the above effect, for the improvement of the above disease has a certain effect, but soaked in water can play a limited role in the efficacy, can not play a better role in the treatment of diseases. And amaranth is cold in nature, should not blindly drink for a long time or a large number of people, the spleen and stomach cold people also should not drink.