Quinoa, also known as Xingye Shashen or Sweet Orange Bellflower, is a perennial herbaceous plant. Its tender leaves are edible, and its roots have medicinal properties. It is known for its ability to alleviate thirst and detoxify the body, and is commonly used to treat conditions such as boils, skin infections, and dark spots on the face.
1. Alleviating Thirst
To prepare "Shizi Quinoa Soup," take one pig kidney, one liter of black soybeans, and one and a half liters of water. Boil until half of the liquid remains. Remove the residue and keep the juice. Add three liang each of quinoa and gypsum, two liang each of ginseng, poria, magnetite, anemarrhena, kudzu root, scutellaria, platycodon root, and licorice. Cook together until the volume reduces to three liters. Divide into three servings and consume.
For "Quinoa Pills," combine one liang each of quinoa, soybeans, poria, magnetite, platycodon root, cooked rehmannia root, cortex mori, radix scrophulariae, dendrobium, and deer antler. Grind into a fine powder. Mix with pulverized pig stomach. Roll into pills the size of a wuzi fruit. Take 70 pills on an empty stomach, swallowing with saltwater.
2. Treating Boils and Infections
For internal use, crush fresh quinoa roots to extract the juice and consume it. For external use, apply the residue of the crushed roots to the affected area. Repeat three times for complete healing.
3. Dark Spots on the Face
Mix one liang each of quinoa and cinnamon into a fine powder. Take one teaspoon and swallow with vinegar.
4. Detoxifying Hookworm Poison
Boil eight liang of quinoa with six liters of water until the liquid reduces to three liters. Take five he, five times a day. Quinoa is also effective in detoxifying hookworm poison. Boil eight liang of quinoa with six liters of water until the liquid reduces to three liters. Take five he, five times a day.
