Chinese herbal medicine purslane

Purslane is a food that many people like to eat. The nutritional value of this food is relatively high. Of course, in addition to its nutritional value, Purslane also has certain medicinal value. It can be used with a variety of medicinal materials to make Chinese medicine prescriptions to treat various problems in the human body. So, what are the pharmacological effects and medicinal values ​​of Purslane? This will be introduced below!

1. Pharmacological Action

1. This product is rich in vitamin A-like substances, so it can promote the physiological functions of epithelial cells to return to normal and promote the healing of ulcers.

2. Antibacterial: Purslane has inhibitory effects on Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, and Salmonella typhi; it also has inhibitory effects on common pathogenic skin fungi.

3. Purslane has a significant contraction effect on blood vessels, which is both central and peripheral.

4. Purslane has a stimulating effect on the isolated uterus of guinea pigs, rats and rabbits, and can also cause contraction of the in vivo uterus of rabbits.

5. This product has antihypertensive, diuretic and intestinal motility-enhancing effects on rabbits.

II. Function and indications

Clears away heat and dampness, cools blood and detoxifies. Used for bacterial dysentery, acute gastroenteritis, acute appendicitis, mastitis, hemorrhoidal bleeding, leucorrhea; used externally to treat carbuncle, eczema, and herpes zoster.

3. Compound

1. Bacterial dysentery, enteritis: ① 1.5 catties of purslane (fresh grass). First dry steam it for 3 to 4 minutes, mash it and take out about 150 ml of juice. Take 50 ml each time, 3 times a day. ②Xiaoli tablets, orally 3 times a day, 4 to 6 tablets each time, reduce the dosage for children.

2. Puerperal fever: 4 liang of purslane and 2 liang of dandelion. Decoction in water.

3. Lymph node tuberculosis: 6 liang of purslane (fine powder), 8 liang of lard (pure oil), 8 liang of honey. Wash the purslane, blanch it in boiling water, then pick it out and dry it. Use an iron pan to fry purslane until it is charred, then grind it into fine powder. After heating the lard, add the purslane and stir constantly with an iron spoon. After a while, white smoke will come out. Remove the pan from the heat, add honey and stir into a paste. The pan will boil and become an ointment after cooling. Before using the medicine, wash the affected area with rice water (use cold boiled water to wash rice), then spread a small plaster according to the size of the sore and apply it to the affected area, then fix it with gauze. Change it once every 2 days until it is healed, and do not interrupt.

4. Acute appendicitis: 2 liang of Purslane and dandelion, decocted in water twice, concentrated to 200 ml, taken in 2 times.

5. Postpartum hemorrhage, cesarean section, curettage and other uterine bleeding and functional uterine bleeding: Portulaca oleracea injection, intramuscular injection or direct uterine injection, 2 ml each time.