Medicinal value of purslane

Medicinal value of purslane

Chinese medicine that its sweet and cold, there is heat and dampness, Zhili anti-inflammatory, detoxification treatment of sore effect. Modern medicine also believes that it is suitable for gastrointestinal infections, rough skin, vitamin A deficiency, corneal softening, dry eye and night blindness and other patients eat. At the same time, it is particularly effective for dysentery bacilli, suitable for the treatment of acute and chronic dysentery, enteritis, cystitis, urethritis, "natural antibiotics" reputation.
Purslane has become one of the edible wild vegetables, there are cultivation. Because of its leaves, such as horse teeth, and slippery and like amaranth, hence the name purslane. It has had a significant contribution to the survival of mankind, is our ancestors in the famine often eat a kind of wild vegetables. Chinese medicine that its sweet and cold, there is heat and dampness, Zhili anti-inflammatory, detoxification treatment of sore effect. Modern medicine also believes that it is suitable for gastrointestinal infections, rough skin, vitamin A deficiency, corneal softening, dry eye and night blindness and other patients eat. At the same time, it is particularly effective for dysentery bacilli, suitable for the treatment of acute and chronic dysentery, enteritis, cystitis, urethritis, "natural antibiotics" reputation.

Portulaca is rich in nutrients, mainly containing a large amount of norepinephrine and a large amount of potassium, and contains malic acid, citric acid, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, oxalic acid, resin, flavonoids, protein, carotene, Vitamins, etc., on the human body have a certain nutritional value.

In recent years, a research institute of the US Department of Agriculture has carried out long-term research on purslane and found that the stem and leaf of the horse contains a kind of nutrients which are extremely important to human body - SL3 fatty acid. This fatty acid is an important ingredient in the formation of cell membranes, especially brain cells and ocular cell membranes. It was thought that this fatty acid was stored only in the body of a fat marine fish (such as sardines, mackerel, saury, etc.). The accident found that for the human diet to add a blind new high-nutrition food sources. 100 ml of purslane juice, containing SL3 about 200 mg, compared with the fish did not touch the color. In addition, purslane also contains vitamin E and carotene, these two substances are natural antioxidants, they can effectively prevent free radicals on human tissue damage, anti-aging, prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease and anti-cancer, Anti-obesity function. Some European food stores and restaurants have begun to supply a variety of purslane food, including purslane salad, purslane sandwich, and for the table with the purslane sauce.