THAT YUYITO THAT WE ALL CUT AND THROW ... YES THAT SAME ONE. Amaranthus blitum. Popularly known as BLEDO or MATACO.
This highly invasive plant of our gardens and streets is deworming, lowers fever, improves brain activity, antidepressant, improves internal bleeding and excessive menstruation, energizing.
Relieves migraine. Because it contains high values of vitamins A, B, C, B1, B2, B3, and folic acid, niacin, calcium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, zinc, copper and contains amino acids such as lysine, fiber and natural fats, it is a very nutritious and inexpensive food.
Its seeds have high content of easily digestible proteins. Its consumption is excellent for pregnant women.
This plant can be consumed raw in salads, its roots, stems and / or leaves can be infused, it can be used in stews or as a dressing and its seeds can be processed as flour. BLEDO, AMARANTH OR PIRA The Amaranth plant, also known as Bledo, Yerba Caracas or Pira, is one of the plants with the greatest nutritional and medicinal benefits, as well as some industrial uses. It is a plant of the Quenopodiaceae family, which grows like a bush, in vacant lots and abandoned houses.
The ancient inhabitants of Caracas used it as food; and its nutritional value is equivalent to that of spinach. But it goes much further: its leaves and stems have a potential for brain and body oxygenation, superior even to many drugs.
It is anti-inflammatory, prevents cancer, fights fatigue and stress. Taken as an infusion or eaten in salads, pigweed is one of the least known and most useful herbs.
It activates memory, for the states of old age, and for mental dullness, as well as for academic performance. Bledo has been used as a brain oxygenator, among its properties is to help memory, many believe that it could be used to help concentration and diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and senile dementia. In addition to the great nutritional value, providing even more protein than milk, Bledo can be used for slimming and detox regimens, it also helps the skin due to its amount of squalene and essential oils First we will say that it is an annual herb, it grows faster than most plants and is very undemanding in terms of the terrain. It can be found throughout America and was once part of the most precious foods by the indigenous people.
We can use Bledo in different
ways:
INFUSION: some people, collect the Bledo or Amaranth and dry it, saving it to later use it in an infusion made with a tablespoon of the dried plant in a cup of boiling water. It sneaks in and takes.
SALAD: Bledo leaves are blanched, passed through boiling water like chard, they are incorporated into salads.
CAPSULES: either bought already packaged in health food stores or encapsulated the powder, they retain all their properties. Use two capsules a day.
OIL: the way to make and use this wonderful oil is given later.
TINCTURE: in 100 ml of liquor (brandy, rum, vodka, etc.) 60g of minced green leaf or 40 of dried minced leaf are placed.
It is left to marinate for 21 days and a tincture is obtained after straining and filtering. 15 drops are taken twice a day.
GLYCERINATE: it is a special method, if you want to use not only the medicinal properties of Bledo, but also its components during growth that include elements to help stabilize some hormones, for hyperinsulinism, metabolic syndrome and delays in growth. A small plant, one to two weeks old, is chopped and ground up in its entirety, including roots, and dipped in 100 ml of pharmaceutical grade glycerin and 25 ml of liquor. Let marinate for two weeks, filter.
Take 10 drops 3 times a day for two months in a row.
It also helps memory and gives resistance to stress. Amaranth Oil, Bledo or Pyre Amaranth, Bledo or Pira oil is rich in squalene, a compound originally found in sharks and rays, but which we know all organisms produce. This oil increases the body's natural defenses.
Squalene has properties against cancer and infections, as well as being a very active antioxidant.
The oil obtained from amaranth or pigweed is very expensive and difficult to obtain, but it is worth it for its properties.
For skin care it is used to prevent spots and smooth roughness and even for injuries due to exposure to sunlight. Being difficult to obtain, you can use amaranth seeds, the spike, dipped in olive oil (another oil rich in squalene), and massage with this oil on the affected parts. For some conditions, psoriasis, spots, rashes, atopic dermatitis, etc.
this formula is very useful:
If you want to use it as a preventive for flu, viral diseases such as chikunguya, dengue, etc.
Add to the previous mixture 20ml of a concentrated decoction of thyme and star anise.
They are plants that look like weeds without knowing the nutrients or can serve as a medicinal silver and I achieved some cure for any pathology.
