The amazing medicinal uses of sea purslane

According to Oriental medicine, sea purslane has a spicy, bitter taste, and a slightly cold nature; affects the liver and spleen meridians; has the effect of eliminating rheumatism, reducing tumors, and dispersing stasis. It is used to treat rheumatism, painful boils, hives, skin heat, toothaches caused by wind and fire, back pain, inflammatory diseases, and digestive disorders.

Sea purslane is a perennial plant that grows on the ground, on sandy beaches along the coast, wherever it spreads, its roots grow there, at first glance it looks like water spinach, its stem is like water spinach but not hollow but solid and has many branches. The leaves grow alternately, shaped like a horseshoe, the young leaves have 2 pieces that fold together. The leaves and vines both have sap; when broken, a milky white sap flows out like sweet potato sap.

Sea spinach.

Cure rheumatism and pain

Sea spinach and Achyranthes each 30g, boil in water to drink.

Use 45g of sea spinach, boil with water and wine (half water, half wine), divide into 2-4 doses to drink during the day.

Sea purslane root and Achyranthes bidentata (scratch grass) each 30g, decocted in water to drink.

60g sea spinach, pork ribs cooked in soup or 60g sea spinach roots cooked with pork leg to eat.

45g sea spinach, 12g bottle gourd, boil in water to drink.

Treatment of skin diseases

Fresh crushed leaves can be used to apply on ulcers, festering pimples or snake bites. When at the beach, itching due to touching jellyfish can be treated by taking a handful of crushed or chewed sea purslane and applying it to the affected area. This is very effective.

Treating poisonous boils and skin abscesses: Use 30-60g of sea purslane, boil and add brown sugar (or honey) to drink. For external use, crush fresh plant (can add brown sugar) and apply to the affected area.

Eczema: Use 30g of sea purslane root, boil in water to drink. Alternatively, use fresh sea purslane leaves, boil in water to wash.

Back abscess (toxic boil on the back): Use fresh sea purslane leaves, appropriate amount, crushed and applied.

Sea purslane can cure itching all over the body due to jellyfish allergy, especially fire jellyfish allergy: Crush fresh sea purslane and squeeze to get the juice; you can also add a little water, mix well, then squeeze to get the juice. After bathing with fresh water, apply sea purslane juice all over the body. The itching will stop after a while.

Cure digestive diseases

To treat bleeding, support the treatment of hemorrhoids, pick young leaves, cook porridge, eat a few times and it will be cured.

Hemorrhoidal bleeding: Use 30g fresh sea spinach, stew with 300 - 500g pig intestines, divide into 2 meals a day; continuously for 10 days (one course of treatment), if not cured, rest for 3-5 days and continue with another course of treatment.

Digestive and laxative, leaf juice is diuretic and used as medicine to treat colds, fever, malaria, edema, and stomachache. Use 8-16g per day in decoction form, often combined with other herbs.

Other therapeutic effects

Back pain: Crush fresh sea purslane and apply to the painful area.

Back pain: 45g sea spinach, pig tail bone cooked into soup or 45g sea spinach root, 12g moneywort cooked with pig tail bone to eat.

Toothache: 15g of sea purslane, 15g of gardenia root, 30g of reed root, boil in water to drink.

Toothache due to wind and fire, mouth inflammation: 37.5g of sea purslane root, 30g of dried acanthus root (Dai ke, da hong hoa, son burdock...), boil in water, remove the residue, wait until cool and drink.

Cure vaginal discharge: 30g sea spinach, 15g coix root, boil in water to drink.

Note: Sea purslane is not recommended for pregnant women.

Used to treat boils: Leaves can be used, but in spring take the tops, in winter take the seeds, and pound the roots and apply to the boils for best results.

According to Giadinhvietnam