Why does purslane soak its feet?

Soak feet with fresh purslane.

Wash fresh purslane, remove yellow leaves and old stems. Put Portulaca oleracea in clear water, boil it, and then cook it for about 5 to 10 minutes. Take the purslane out, add some cold water, put your feet down and soak for about 20 minutes. ?

Portulaca oleracea is a kind of wild vegetable with homology of medicine and food, which was recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica of the Southern Dynasties. The southern Yunnan materia medica claims that it can "tonify qi and relieve summer heat, relax the middle-aged and lower the qi, moisten the intestines and relax the bowels, promote digestion and eliminate accumulation, kill insects and treat sores, swelling and pain." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation to reduce swelling, inducing diuresis to relieve stranguria, resisting bacteria and killing insects. Modern medical research has found that purslane has inhibitory effect on Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli, typhoid Bacillus and Staphylococcus aureus.

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Portulaca oleracea likes high humidity, bears drought and waterlogging, and is positive. Suitable for planting in various fields and slopes, especially in neutral and weakly acidic soils. The germination temperature is 65438 08℃, and the optimum growth temperature is 20-30℃. When the temperature exceeds 20℃, it can be planted in stages and listed one after another. Protected cultivation can carry out annual production.

It is produced all over China. Born in vegetable garden, farmland and roadside, it is a common weed in the field. Widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions of the world.

People's Daily Online-A Bitter Medicine: Portulaca oleracea (Health Encyclopedia)

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