The spinach (Amaranthus tricolor L.)

The spinach (Amaranthus tricolor L.)
The synonym: A.gangeticus
The family: amaranthaceae
The spinach came from America the tropics.
Now, these plants have been spread in the tropical and subtropical area of all the world.
In Indonesia, the spinach could grow year round and was found in the height 5-2.000 m. dpl, grew in the hot and cold area, but grew more fertile in.
The plain to the land was open that his air was rather hot.
The herb a year, erect or rather leant, high 0,4-1 m., and was in doubt.
The weak and juicy stick.
The leaves stem, have the shape of oval, limp, long 5-8 cm, the blunt tip, the pointed starting point, as well as his colour were green, red, or green whitish.
The flower that was in a meeting, the underside sat on the armpit, the upper part gathered to the flower article on the end of the stem and the branching armpit.
The flower have the shape of bulir.
The spinach that was sold in the market and normally was consumed as vegetables was known with the spinach cabutan or the spinach sekul.
Gotten by three varieties of the spinach that including into Amaranthus tricolor, that is the green spinach normally, the red spinach (Blitum rubrum), that the stick and his leaves were red, and the white spinach (Blitum the album), that was green whitish.
As information, the leaves and the stick of the red spinach contained the coloured liquid red.
Apart from A. tricolor, was gotten the other kind spinach, like the large-scale spinach (A. hybridus), the thorn spinach (A.spinosus), and the spinach kotok/the land spinach (A. blitum).
The spinach kind that often was cultivated was A. tricolor and A. hybridus whereas the other spinach kind grew wild.
The spinach harvest had leave for a long time was carried out for 25 days.
After that, his quality will descend because his leaves became stiff.
The spinach could as clear vegetables, was made gado-gado, massaged, or was boiled to consume.
sometimes, the young and wide spinach leaves were used also as the material crackers.
The spinach crop could be increased with the seed.
The illness that could be treated:
Cleaned blood after Gave
birth, reinforced the hair follicle, hypotension, anemic (anaemia), and failed the kidney.
The root was used for medical treatment: dysentery
Generally, the spinach crop could increase the work of the kidney and launched the digestion.
The red spinach root useful for as dysentery medicine.
The spinach including fibrous vegetables that could be used to launch the process of defecating.
Fibrous food was really recommended to be consumed by the sufferer of large intestine cancer,The diabetes sufferer (diabetes mellitus), hypertension cholesterol, and reduced the weight.
The infusion of the red spinach leaves 30% per oral could increase the level of serum iron, haemoglobin, and hematokrit the rabbit that was made by anaemia obviously.
Notes :
The sufferer the acidity of quite high blood vessels and rheumatism of Gout was banned eat the spinach too many because of these vegetables contained purin that was high enough.
In the body, purin would metabolism became sour the vein.
For medical treatment, the red spinach it was considered useful more than the green spinach.
The composition: the Spinach contained protein, fat, the carbohydrate, potassium, iron, amarantin, the routine, purin, and vitamins (A, B and C).