Portulaca oleracea and its medical importance

1. Portulaca
oleracea
Laith alasadi

2. Portulaca oleracea
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Portulacaceae
Genus: Portulaca
Species: P. oleracea

3. Portulaca oleracea
 Portulaca oleracea (common purslane,
also known as verdolaga, pigweed, little
hogweed, "red root", pursley, and moss
rose) is an annual succulent in the family
Portulacaceae.

4. Nutritional value
 Purslane, raw
 Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
 Energy 84 kJ (20 kcal)/
 Carbohydrates 3.39 g
 Fat 0.36 g
 Protein 2.03 g

5. Nutritional value
 Vitamins
 Vitamin A 1320 IU
 Thiamine (B1) (4%)0.047 mg
 Riboflavin (B2) (9%)0.112 mg
 Niacin (B3) (3%)0.48 mg
 Vitamin B6 (6%)0.073 mg
 Folate (B9) (3%)12 μg
 Vitamin C (25%)21 mg
 Vitamin E (81%)12.2

6. Nutritional value
 Trace metals:
 Calcium (7%)65 mg
 Iron (15%)1.99 mg
 Magnesium (19%)68 mg
 Manganese (14%)0.303 mg
 Phosphorus (6%)44 mg
 Potassium (11%)494 mg
 Zinc (2%)0.17 mg

7. Distribution
 It has an extensive natural distribution
throughout the Old World extending from
North Africa through the Middle East and
the India to Malesia and Australia
 The species status in the New World is
uncertain, It is naturalised elsewhere and
in some regions is considered an invasive
weed.

8. Description
 It has smooth, reddish stems and alternate
leaves clustered at stem joints and ends.
 The yellow flowers have five regular parts
and are up to 6 mm wide.
 Depending upon rainfall, the flowers
appear at anytime during
the year.
 which may reach 40 cm in
height.

9. Uses
 it may be eaten as a leaf vegetable.
 It has a slightly sour and salty taste and is
eaten throughout much of Europe
, the middle east, Asia.
 Purslane may be used fresh
as a salad, stir-fried, or
cooked as spinach
 because of its mucilaginous
quality it also is suitable for
soups and stews

10. medicinal effect
 A rare subclass of Homoisoflavonoids,
from the plant, showed in vitro
cytotoxic activities towards four
human cancer cell lines
 its leaves are used to treat insect or
snake bites on the skinboils, sores,
pain from bee stings,
bacillary dysentery, diarrhea,
hemorrhoids, postpartum bleeding,
and intestinal bleeding

11. medicinal effect
 Seed pods (closed and open)
 active constituents include:
 noradrenaline, calcium salts ,
dopamine,
 malic acid, citric acid,
glutamic acid,
asparagic acid,
nicotinic acid, alanine,
 glucose, fructose, and sucrose

12. medicinal effect
 Purslane contains more omega-3 fatty
acids (alpha-linolenic acid in particular)
than any other leafy vegetable plant.
 Also present two types of betalain alkaloid
pigments.
 Both of these pigment types are potent
antioxidants and have been found to
have antimutagenic properties in
laboratory studies.

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