Is purslane useful for diabetes? Does purslane reduce blood sugar?
Eating purslane can help diabetes patients, but can not cure diabetes. Portulaca oleracea can promote the islet gland to regulate insulin secretion because of its norepinephrine, so as to have the function of reducing blood glucose and maintain the constant blood glucose. However, although purslane has certain hypoglycemic effect, it is also unable to cure diabetes. Besides, diabetes is not curable under the current level of medical care, and it can only be maintained by controlling blood sugar levels.
Purslane has a certain hypoglycemic effect, but pregnant women can not eat, especially some pregnant women with diabetes, do not want to use purslane to treat diabetes. Because purslane is a cold thing, which can stimulate the uterus, cause uterine contraction and abortion, and pregnant women can't eat it. Especially those who have habitual abortion should be forbidden to eat purslane, which has the function of abortion.
The most important thing to choose purslane is to learn to identify true and false purslane. You may be surprised, but there is a plant that looks very much like purslane, and its name is false purslane. So how do we identify it? Portulaca oleracea, also known as five elements grass, is named because its leaves are green, its stems are red, its flowers are yellow, its roots are white and its seeds are black. When you buy it, you can carefully observe whether the things you buy meet this characteristic. Moreover, the difference between purslane and pseudopurslane mainly lies in the shape and color of corolla. Purslane flowers are yellow and five petals are separated, while pseudopurslane flowers are white and their petals are united.