The truth about purslane - a miracle cure for cancer?

After rumors of a complete cure for cancer thanks to papaya leaves, golden comb plant, morning glory plant... recently many people believe that purslane can also cure this deadly disease.

Rumor has it that purslane cures cancer

Purslane is a very popular vegetable in our country, often growing like weeds in fields and gardens. Wanting to own a bunch of fresh and delicious purslane is not too difficult for each of us. This vegetable is very easy to grow. What is special is that it is not only suitable for the tropical climate of our country but also very popular in Europe. The Dutch often use this vegetable to make pickles, the French like to process purslane into special dishes, while Americans have the world-famous purslane mixed with oil and vinegar dish...

In our folk, purslane was also used as a daily vegetable. However, with the development of society, this vegetable is no longer popular as a daily food, many places even consider it a wild vegetable, with no use.

Purslane is a very popular vegetable in our country, often growing like a weed in fields, gardens...

In fact, this is a vegetable that can cure many different diseases. It can be said that purslane is a cheap medicine that you should cherish in your daily life.

But does this vegetable have the ability to cure cancer as many people rumor? According to research on the composition of purslane, the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology shows that purslane has 1.4% protein, 3% glucid, 1.3% ash, 85mg% calcium, 56mg% P, 1.5mg% Fe, 26mg% Vitamin C, 0.32mg% carotene, 0.03mg% Vitamin B1, 0.11mg% Vitamin B2 and 0.7mg% Vitamin PP. Many studies also show that purslane leaves contain antioxidants, which help protect the body against free radicals.

Research conducted at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Jordan shows that applying fresh purslane leaves to wounds helps wounds heal faster than normal. Research at the University of Wollongong (Australia) and the Washington Center for Genetics - Nutrition - Health (USA) shows that 100g of fresh purslane leaves contain 300-400mg of alpha-linolenic acid, 12.2mg of alpha-tocopherol, 26.6mg of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), 1.9mg of beta-carotene and 14.8mg of glutathione. This confirms that purslane is rich in nutrients, nutrients and unsaturated fatty acids. In the ancient British Pharmacopoeia, purslane is a remedy for urinary retention and pain when urinating due to urinary tract spasms...

Purslane is rich in nutrients and unsaturated fatty acids.

Recently, traditional Chinese medicine has introduced the application of cancer treatment with purslane. This has made people even more excited and hopeful about a new medicine that can effectively prevent cancer. So what is the truth about cancer treatment with purslane? If purslane can cure cancer, how effective is it?

Purslane only has first aid and support effects for cancer patients.

According to former colonel, general practitioner Bui Hong Minh (Vice President of the Ba Dinh Oriental Medicine Association, Hanoi), purslane is also known as ma xi hien, ma xi thai. The chemical composition of purslane contains substances such as glucoside, saponin, organic acid resin, potassium salts, vitamins A, B1, B2, PP, C... In addition, purslane also contains many carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.

“In Oriental medicine, purslane has a sour taste and cold properties, affects the heart, spleen, and lung meridians, and has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, reducing water, removing dampness, and stopping bleeding. Through experiments, purslane constricts blood vessels, and purslane decoction inhibits the growth of shiga-kruse bacteria, Y-shaped dysentery bacteria, Coli bacilli, and typhoid bacilli,” said physician Bui Hong Minh.

Purslane is used to treat diseases caused by dysentery bacteria such as bloody diarrhea, acute enteritis...

According to him, purslane is used to treat diseases caused by dysentery bacteria such as bloody stools, acute enteritis, nephritis, gout, edema, cystitis, difficult bowel movements, whooping cough, persistent cough, pinworms, roundworms, skin diseases, boils, itching, impetigo, eczema, hemorrhoids with bleeding, leukorrhea and uterine bleeding in women. The usual dosage is 30-60g of fresh purslane or 15-20g of dried purslane, used externally, depending on the size of the application site to use correctly.

“People with weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, pregnant women, and people with kidney stones should not use it (purslane has a lot of calcium, which will create a lot of oxalic acid, making it more difficult for kidney stone patients to treat the disease,” Mr. Minh noted.

Below are some medicinal recipes from purslane given by this physician.:

- Treatment of bacillary dysentery:Fresh purslane 50-60g fresh or 25g dried, bitter yellow 6g or coptis 6g. Boil and drink 1 dose per day, can combine with berberine will have a very good effect in treating diarrhea.

- Pinworm treatment: 50-70g fresh purslane, wash, squeeze dry, take the juice to drink. Drink continuously for 3-5 days, can add a little sugar to make it easier to drink.

- Treatment of acute nephritis: Fresh purslane 50-70g, sea cucumber 30g, Phellodendron 10g, decoct and drink 1 dose per day.

- Treatment of postpartum bleeding: Fresh purslane 200g or dried purslane 60g, boil until concentrated, divide into 2 doses, drink during the day.

- Treatment of drug poisoning: 60g fresh purslane, crushed or blended, squeezed to get the juice to drink, the pulp applied to the navel.

- Treatment of vaginal itching and hemorrhoids:Fresh or dried purslane, boil to get the water and soak and wash.

Regarding the effect of cancer treatment,Mr. Minh said that it is true that recently traditional Chinese medicine has used purslane in the field of cancer, but only for the purpose of first aid and supporting cancer. Therefore, we need to clearly understand that the nature of purslane does not have the effect of curing cancer. Specifically, this vegetable has the effect of supporting the treatment of the following types of tumors:

Purslane only has a partial supportive effect in curing tumors but cannot be considered a miracle cure for cancer...

- Cure esophageal cancer: 30g fresh purslane, cook until soft, add a little soy flour to make a nutritious porridge, can add a little honey before eating.

- Treatment of colon tumors: 20g purslane, 20g poria, 20g achyranthes, 20g gentian root, 20g chicken gizzard lining, 8g coptis, 12g yellow vine, 10g trichosanthes, 10g scutellaria, 4g musk, 6g licorice. Boil and drink 1 dose per day.

- Cure rectal tumors: 10g dried purslane, 30g celosia. Boil and drink 1 dose per day.

Physician Bui Hong Minh especially emphasized that although purslane has many medicinal properties, for cancer, this vegetable only has a partial supportive effect in treating tumors and cannot be considered a miracle cure for cancer. Therefore, cancer patients should not use purslane indiscriminately because of rumors or word-of-mouth advice to avoid further harming their health.

According to Young Knowledge