Amaranth

Amaranth

(bielu)

[synonyms] bran amaranth, fine amaranth (bielu), wild amaranth, pig amaranth (Ben Cao Tu Jing), false amaranth (flora of Guangzhou), green amaranth (name of Lahan seed plant).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of Amaranthaceae.

[plant morphology] amaranth

Annual herbs, 40-80 cm high, glabrous. Stem erect, less branched. Leaves ovate to ovate oblong, 2-9 cm long and 2.5-6 cm wide. Apex obtuse and emarginate, with small awn tip, base nearly truncate; petiole 3-6 cm long. Flowers unisexual or mixed, dense, green; spikes axillary, or integrated terminal panicles; bracts and bracteoles dry membranous, lanceolate, small; sepals 3, oblong or oblanceolate; stamens 3; stigmas 2-3. Utricles oblate, undivided, extremely shrunken, exceeding persistent sepals. Seeds brown or black. The flowering period is from June to July.

In the fields. It is distributed in the north and south of China.

[collection] harvest in spring and summer.

[chemical composition] the leaves contain vitamin C 35.1 mg%.

Sweet and light, cool.

① Ben Cao Tu Jing: "great cold. "

② Jiangxi herbal medicine manual: "sweet, light, cool. "

[function indications] clearing heat and detoxifying. Treatment of sore swelling, chancre, insect bite.

① Yu Shen: "amaranth: Invigorating Qi, removing heat, opening nine orifices. "

② Compendium: "benefit the small intestine. It can cure dysentery and slide the fetus. "

③ Jiangxi herbal medicine manual: "clearing away heat, detoxifying, benefiting excrement, relieving pain, improving eyesight. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang. External use: decocting, washing, tamping; or calcining, grinding and external wiping.

[selection] 1. Treatment of sores and swelling: Amaranthus Amaranthus L. Wash in boiling water.

② Governance walk horse chancre: Wild amaranth root calcination, add a little, grind evenly wipe gum.

③ Treatment of snake bite: Wild amaranth whole grass, pound the affected area. (1) herbal medicine manual of Jiangxi Province

④ Treatment of bee sting: Wild amaranth, wipe it. (collected prescriptions by Yao Sengtan)