Oct 24, 2024
Portulaca oleracea is one of the 101 species of wild plants with the same origin of medicine and food in China, which is widely distributed in the north and south of the Yangtze River in China, as well as in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Central Europe and other parts of the world.
It has the functions of lowering blood glucose and blood lipids, preventing cardiovascular diseases, enhancing human immunity, anti-allergic, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-aging, anti-tumor, and anti-atherosclerosis, etc. It is also used as a medicinal and food plant.
is rich in polysaccharides and flavonoids with broad-spectrum antibacterial properties, which have good inhibitory effects on common bacteria and fungi.
Adding it to cosmetics can reduce the amount of bacteriostatic agents and preservatives, and has a strong scavenging effect on a variety of free radicals in the human body, so it is seen in whitening and anti-aging cosmetics.
Bacopa monnieri, whose main chemical components are triterpenoid saponins, has effects on the nervous, digestive and circulatory systems, including antimemetic, sedative, memory-enhancing, antiepileptic and anxiolytic effects.
Traditionally used for memory enhancement, sedation, antiepileptic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic, in recent years, preclinical studies have confirmed that
The main chemical components of Bacopa monnieri are bacopa monnieri saponin A and bacopa monnieri saponin B. Saponin A is the left-handed form and saponin B is the right-handed form.
They have biological activities such as modulation of the cholinergic system, enhancement of cognitive and memory functions, as well as sedative anxiolytic and anticonvulsant. In addition, there are anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, cardiotonic, and antioxidant bioactivities.
1. Different toxicity and consumption methods
Portulaca oleracea is non-toxic, as long as attention is paid to the taboos of consumption, no matter whether it is a vegetable or as a traditional Chinese medicine, it can be safely consumed.
2. Differences in efficacy and potency
Bacopa monnieri, most notably for improving cognitive and memory functions, as well as sedative and anti-anxiety and anticonvulsant and antiepileptic, is a popular herb in Ayurvedic medicine in India and is mainly used to improve memory and to treat mental and epileptic disorders.
3. Differences in appearance
4,Different growing places
