Medicinal value of purslane

Purslane is originally a wild vegetable, but as people’s life concepts have changed in recent years, people have gradually fallen in love with various wild vegetables. In fact, purslane is not only a vegetable, but also a medicinal material. What is the medicinal value of purslane ?

About Purslane

Purslane is the whole herb of the Portulacaceae family. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Purslane, also known as the five-element grass, has green leaves, red stems, yellow flowers, white roots, and black seeds." Purslane is a wild vegetable that has long been recorded in ancient books as having contributed to mankind. It is also known as the "longevity vegetable" or "longevity vegetable" among the people.

Purslane is an annual herbaceous plant of the Portulacaceae family. It is thick and juicy, hairless, and 10 to 30 cm tall. It grows in sunny places such as roadsides in fields and garden ruins. It is distributed throughout the country. This species is a medicinal and edible plant. The whole plant is used for medicinal purposes, and has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, detoxifying and reducing swelling, anti-inflammatory, quenching thirst, and diuresis; the seeds improve eyesight. Modern research shows that Purslane also contains rich SL3 fatty acids and vitamin A-like substances: SL3 fatty acids are necessary for the formation of cell membranes, especially brain cell membranes and eye cell membranes; vitamin A-like substances can maintain the normal function of epithelial tissues such as skin, cornea and conjunctiva, participate in the synthesis of rhodopsin, enhance the photosensitivity of the retina, and also participate in many oxidation processes in the body. In addition, Purslane can also be used as veterinary medicine and pesticides; tender stems and leaves can be used as vegetables, etc.

Medicinal value of purslane

Purslane is cold in nature, sweet and sour in taste; it enters the heart, liver, spleen, and large intestine meridians. "Food Therapy Materia Medica" says that this product can "cook porridge to stop diarrhea and malnutrition and dysentery." "Materia Medica Zhengyi" says that "Purslane... treats women's leucorrhea, which is mostly caused by damp heat stagnation, cold and slippery to facilitate it, and damp heat can be discharged, and it can also enter the blood to break blood stasis, so it can also treat red discharge." This product contains a large amount of protein, fat, sugar, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients, and is rich in norepinephrine and potassium salt. Norepinephrine can promote insulin secretion, regulate the metabolism of sugar in the human body, and has the effect of lowering blood sugar concentration and maintaining blood sugar stability; potassium salt can lower blood pressure, slow down heart rate, and has the effect of protecting the heart. Purslane also contains a large amount of anti-aging active ingredients such as vitamin E, vitamin C, carotene and glutathione. Long-term consumption can prevent platelet aggregation, coronary artery spasm and thrombosis, thereby effectively preventing coronary heart disease. In addition, Purslane has a strong inhibitory effect on many bacteria such as Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and is known as a "natural antibiotic."

As a wild vegetable, purslane has been eaten by the Chinese people for a long time and it is indeed unique. In summer and autumn, pick the ones with lush stems and leaves, tender and juicy, remove the roots, wash and scald them until soft, squeeze out the juice gently, mix with salt, rice vinegar, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, sesame oil and other condiments and seasonings, and eat it as a cold dish. It tastes delicious and smooth. It can also be used to make pancakes and steamed food as stuffing. People in many parts of my country still have the habit of washing, scalding, chopping, drying and storing purslane as a winter vegetable.

Purslane recipes

Take 50g of fresh smilax glabra and 50g of purslane, wash them, add appropriate amount of water, boil for 30 minutes, remove the residue, add a small amount of rice, continue to boil into porridge, add oil and salt to taste, and eat in 2-3 times. This porridge can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, remove dampness and stop diarrhea. Smilax glabra is sweet, light and flat in nature, and can remove dampness and detoxify. Now the two are used together, the effect is enhanced, and the porridge nourishes the stomach qi, which is a good meal for treating diarrhea.

Mastitis Medicinal Diet Recipe - Cold-mixed Purslane. Take 500g of fresh Purslane, 60g of cactus, and appropriate amounts of sugar, vinegar, and sesame oil. Wash the Purslane and cut it into sections, remove the thorns and skin of the cactus and cut it into shreds, blanch the two ingredients in boiling water, add appropriate amounts of sugar, vinegar, and sesame oil, mix well, and serve with meals. Efficacy: clears away heat and detoxifies, reduces swelling and relieves pain. Suitable for all patients with furuncle, erysipelas, and hemorrhoids, especially for patients with mastitis.

Purslane and mung bean soup Take 120 grams of fresh purslane (or 60 grams of dried product) and 50 grams of mung bean, and boil them into a decoction. This soup has a good effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying, and is effective for damp-heat diarrhea or heat-toxic bloody dysentery.

Purslane marinated eggs. Appropriate amount of purslane and 2 fresh eggs. First, boil purslane with water to make purslane marinade, then take out 300ml and use the marinade to boil eggs. Take it once a day with the soup. Efficacy: clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and removing blood stasis, relieving pain. Suitable for people with liver cirrhosis who have persistent fever, thirst and irritability.

Purslane with bean sprouts. 150g fresh purslane, 150g soybean sprouts, 6g sugar, 2g vinegar, 2g MSG, 3g soy sauce, 15g sesame oil. Remove the old leaves of purslane and wash; wash the soybean sprouts. Blanch purslane and soybean sprouts in boiling water, remove and drain, mix vinegar, soy sauce, MSG and sesame oil into sauce; mix purslane and soybean sprouts evenly, pour the sauce on top. It can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and keep the skin beautiful.

Precautions: People with weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea and loose stools should not eat it; pregnant women, especially those with habitual miscarriage, should not eat it, because purslane is cold and slippery, eating too much will have the disadvantages of slippery. According to previous experience, purslane should not be eaten with turtles, otherwise it will cause gastrointestinal indigestion, food poisoning, etc.

Purslane Introduction

Purslane is also known as sour rice vegetable, and its medicinal name in Nanjing is Anlecai. It is a plant of the Portulacaceae family. It is a fleshy herb with small yellow flowers. Its fruits split in a ring when ripe. It is distributed in various provinces of China.

Food

Sour, cold, non-toxic.

Gourmet ingredients

Contains vitamins B, C, carotene, oxalic acid, potassium nitrate, potassium chloride, etc.

Gastropharmacology

Antibacterial test: It has inhibitory effects on Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Shigella dysenteriae, etc., especially on Shigella dysenteriae.

Food Benefits

It is suitable for dysentery, enteritis, acute arthritis, cystitis and urethritis, anus inflammation, hemorrhoidal bleeding, etc.

Dysentery: 60-90g of purslane (double the amount of fresh grass), 3-12g of lentil flower, decoct in water and add brown sugar, take twice a day. Or burn purslane, grind into powder, and take with sugar water. Take 6g each time, twice a day.

For women with red and leucorrhea: Wash and mash fresh purslane and squeeze out about 60 grams of juice. Remove the yolks of 2 raw eggs, add the egg whites and mix them with the purslane juice. Take with boiled water, once a day.

Jaundice: squeeze fresh purslane juice, about 30 grams each time, drink with boiled water, twice a day.

Leg rot (ecthyma): Mash fresh purslane and apply it to the affected area along with the residue.

Hematuria and bloody stool: squeeze fresh purslane juice and lotus root juice in equal amounts, half a cup (about 60 ml) each time, mix with rice soup, take twice a day.

Purslane has so many medicinal values, it’s no wonder that people nowadays are becoming more and more keen on eating wild vegetables.