What is the function of cockscomb?

Friends who often go out to play in the wild may have seen that there is a plant with very special flowers. From a distance, they look like cockscombs, and they are milky white, making them easy to identify. This plant that can be seen in the wild is the so-called cockscomb. It is not an ordinary flower, but a precious Chinese medicinal material. Since it is a traditional Chinese medicine, what are the effects of cockscomb?

Cockscomb is used as medicine with its flowers and seeds. The flowers can cool blood and stop bleeding, and have the effects of stopping leucorrhea and dysentery. It is mainly used to treat functional uterine bleeding, excessive leucorrhea, dysentery, etc. It is a good gynecological medicine. The seeds have anti-inflammatory, astringent, eyesight-improving, blood pressure-lowering and strengthening effects. They can treat intestinal wind and bloody stools, dysentery, metrorrhagia, stranguria, eye diseases, etc.

【Nature and flavor and meridians】Sweet, astringent, and cool. It enters the liver and large intestine meridians.

【Function and indications】Astringent, hemostatic, leucorrhea-stopping and dysentery-stopping. Used for vomiting blood, metrorrhagia, blood in stool, hemorrhoidal bleeding, leucorrhea, and chronic dysentery. Every 100 grams of fresh cockscomb inflorescence contains --

2.7 grams of protein, 0.4 grams of fat, 3.2 grams of carbohydrates, and 6.3 grams of dietary fiber.

It is also rich in minerals and vitamins such as potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, zinc, β-carotene, vitamins B1 and B2, vitamins C and E.

2. The protein content in the tender stems, leaves and seeds of cockscomb is also very high, accounting for 2.29%~5.14% of the fresh weight. It also contains a certain amount of fat, minerals, vitamins, natural coenzymes, dietary fiber, etc., which have a good nourishing and strengthening effect on the human body.

3. The main chemical components include kaempoferitrin, amaranthin, pinitol and a large amount of potassium nitrate. Red flowers contain amaranth, while yellow flowers contain a very small amount.

Cockscomb contains amino acids-- ideal food

After long-term observation and research, Italian scientists proposed two years ago: "Cockscomb and its seeds can provide amino acids that are particularly needed by the human body." Some children often go blind due to lack of amino acids in food. The protein content of cockscomb seeds is as high as 73%. The seeds taste like hazelnuts and can be fried and eaten. The grains are mixed with wheat to make flour, which is an ideal food. Eating 100 grams of cockscomb petals every day can also help supplement the amino acids needed by the human body.