Malabar spinach

Overview

Aliases

Heavenly mallow; vine mallow; foreign rouge; vine vegetable; slippery vine; western vegetable; rouge bean; wood-ear vegetable; stream vegetable; purple mallow; purple bean vine; red vine vegetable; soft vine vegetable; slippery-belly vegetable

Nature and Flavor

Cold; sweet, sour

What's Inside

Ingredients

The leaves contain polysaccharides, carotene, organic acids, vitamin C, amino acids, proteins, and other constituents.

Therapeutic Effects

1. Antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effects: Fresh juice squeezed from Basella alba and given intragastrically has an antipyretic effect on yeast-induced fever in rats. The fresh juice also inhibits egg-white–induced paw edema and formaldehyde-induced paw edema in rats, acetic acid–induced increase in capillary permeability in mice, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)–induced leukocyte migration in rats, and cotton-pellet granuloma in rats. 2. Antiviral effect: The aqueous extract of the leaves inhibits tobacco mosaic virus, and its active component is a glycoprotein.

Precautions

No precautions information available

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ONLY AND IS NOT INTENDED AS MEDICAL ADVICE.