What are the effects of Purslane

Purslane is a very common wild vegetable in the wild, especially in summer. It grows very vigorously, usually in clusters. Many people will take it home, wash it, and eat it as a cold dish. It has good health benefits. In some areas, it is also called a longevity vegetable. This shows the importance of Purslane to the human body. Purslane has a good effect of moisturizing the intestines and promoting bowel movements. It tastes very good. People with constipation can eat it. It can also treat some common diseases among middle-aged and elderly people, such as hypertension and diabetes.

Purslane is also known as longevity vegetable, purslane grass, five elements grass, purslane, five-sided grass, longevity vegetable, longevity vegetable and so on. It tastes sweet and sour, is cold in nature, and enters the liver, spleen, and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, dispersing blood and reducing swelling. It is mainly used to treat hot dysentery with thick blood, hot stranguria, hematuria, leucorrhea, carbuncles and malignant ulcers. It has great health benefits. It is reported that residents in the Mediterranean region have lower incidence of heart disease and cancer than residents in other areas due to regular consumption of purslane. Pharmacological studies have shown that it has the following health benefits:

Lowering blood pressure : Purslane is rich in potassium, which can act as a diuretic and reduce swelling, dilate blood vessels, prevent thickening of arterial walls, and lower blood pressure.

Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory : Purslane is known as a natural antibiotic and can help treat bacillary dysentery and enteritis.

Promote ulcer healing : Purslane contains more carotene, which can promote ulcer healing and has a good effect on patients with gastric ulcers.

Lowering blood sugar : Purslane contains high concentrations of norepinephrine and dihydroxyphenylethylamine (a precursor of norepinephrine), which can adjust the body's sugar metabolism process, promote the pancreas to secrete insulin, and achieve the effect of lowering blood sugar.

Prevent heart disease : Purslane contains active substances such as potassium salt, flavonoids, cardiac glycosides and rich fatty acids, which can inhibit the production of serum cholesterol in the human body, promote vasodilation, prevent platelet aggregation, coronary artery spasm and thrombosis, thereby playing a role in preventing heart disease.

Anti-aging and anti-cancer : The vitamin E and carotene contained in Purslane are natural antioxidants that can effectively prevent damage to human tissues caused by free radicals.

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1. Clear away heat, cool blood and treat dysentery. It is mainly used to treat bloody dysentery caused by heat toxins and dysentery caused by damp heat.

2. Eliminate heat, detoxify and eliminate carbuncle. It can cure fire poison sores.

This product is sour and cold, enters the heart meridian and flows through the blood, has the functions of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, detoxifying and treating carbuncle; enters the large intestine and is good at clearing and cooling blood and treating dysentery. It is commonly used for bloody diarrhea and sores.

Purslane has the effects of detoxification, anti-inflammatory, diuresis and detumescence. It has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on diabetes. "Essentials of Raw Medicinal Herbs" states: "It can treat dysentery, clear away heat and toxins, and wash hemorrhoids, malnutrition and carbuncle." "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan" states: "It replenishes qi, clears away summer heat, relaxes the middle and lower parts of the body, moistens the intestines, eliminates stagnation, kills insects, and treats sores, swelling and pain." "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it "disperses blood and reduces swelling, facilitates bowel movements and induces abortion, detoxifies and relieves stranguria, and treats postpartum sweating."

This product has inhibitory effects on Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella typhi, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Suitable for the crowd.