Can purslane cure nephritis? Are there any contraindications?

Traditional Chinese medicine is profound and extensive. Seemingly ordinary food and medicinal materials can indeed play a vital role. Purslane, as a common vegetable, has extraordinary medicinal value. Purslane has an outstanding effect in treating nephritis. If you soak Purslane in water and drink it for a period of time, the condition of nephritis will be controlled and improved to a certain extent.

1. Can Purslane cure nephritis?

Purslane is an annual herb. Traditional Chinese medicine regards Purslane as an effective medicine for detoxification, anti-inflammation, diuresis, and treatment of bacterial dysentery. It can be used to treat nephritis. The dietary principle for patients with nephrotic syndrome is low salt, low fat, high quality and low protein. If the swelling is severe, a salt-free diet is recommended. Purslane contains protein, fat, multiple vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. It can be eaten and has the effects of heat detoxification, hemostasis and stranguria. Purslane can be eaten raw or boiled in water and has therapeutic effects on acute enteritis, mastitis, nephritic edema, hemorrhoidal bleeding, etc. Especially for the treatment of bacterial dysentery, taking a large amount of fresh purslane juice has excellent effect.

2. What are the effects of purslane?

Clears away heat, detoxifies, disperses blood and reduces swelling. It is used to treat dysentery with pus and blood, stranguria with heat, stranguria with blood, leucorrhea, carbuncles, ulcers, erysipelas, and leprosy. It is used for diarrhea and dysentery caused by damp heat, often with Coptis chinensis and costusroot. Take it orally or apply the juice externally to treat carbuncles. It is also used for bloody stool and uterine bleeding, and has a hemostatic effect.

3. Taboos on eating purslane

When you first eat purslane, you must eat it in small amounts. You can eat more after you gradually get used to it. Only add white sugar, not brown sugar. Because brown sugar is warm in nature, it goes against the direction of treatment. Purslane is a cold product, so people with weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea and pregnant women should avoid eating it. It should not be eaten with pepper, powder or turtle shell. Toxic and side effects: Purslane can be eaten. In clinical application, the decoction of this product has no obvious toxicity when taken orally. Larger injection doses may cause nausea.