Soaking Portulaca oleracea with water has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and can also enhance myocardial function, prevent thrombosis, lower blood pressure and blood sugar, and protect gastric mucosa. When the body has fever, infection and other diseases, you can drink purslane water properly, which has a certain auxiliary treatment effect on the disease. In addition, purslane and soaking in water can also induce diuresis, which has a good effect on improving patients' frequent urination, urgency and pain. At the same time, it can also kill insects, treat parasitic infections in the body, and sober up after excessive drinking.
However, purslane is cool, so some people with diarrhea had better not eat it, and pregnant women also had better not eat it, so as not to do harm to their bodies.
When you start taking purslane, you must take it step by step, and then gradually increase it after your body gradually adapts to the medicinal properties. In addition, when soaking water with purslane, you can't add brown sugar, because brown sugar is warm, while purslane is cold, and adding warm brown sugar will affect the efficacy. Portulaca oleracea is cold, and some people with weak spleen and stomach or diarrhea and pregnant women had better not take it. In addition, purslane can't be taken with pepper and turtle shell.