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A Pharmacological Review on Portulaca oleracea L.: Focusing on Anti-Inflammatory, Anti- Oxidant, Immuno-Modulatory and Antitumor Activities
- Source :
- Journal of Pharmacopuncture, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 007-015 (2019), Journal of Pharmacopuncture
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Korean Pharmacopuncture Institute, 2019.
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Abstract
- Portulaca oleracea L. (PO) or Purslane is an annual grassy plant that is distributed in many parts of the world, especially the tropical and subtropical areas. PO has some pharmacological properties such as analgesic, antibacterial, skeletal muscle-relaxant, wound-healing, anti- inflammatory and a radical scavenger. This review article is focused on the anti-inflammatory, immuno-modulatory, anti-oxidant and anti-tumor activities of the PO. Anti-inflammatory, immuno-modulatory, anti-oxidant and Anti-tumor effects of PO were searched using various databases until the end of August 2018. The online literature was searched using PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, Google Scholar and Web of Science. Our review showed that PO exerts its effects through anti-inflammatory properties and balancing the adaptive and innate immune system depending on situations. PO acts as immune-modulator and anti-oxidant agent in both inflammatory states by the dominance of Th2 response such as asthma, cancer and atopic dermatitis and evoked Th1 disorders including hepatitis and multiple sclerosis.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
medicine.drug_class
purslane
portulaca oleracea
lcsh:Medicine
Inflammation
Review Article
Portulaca
Pharmacology
01 natural sciences
Anti-inflammatory
03 medical and health sciences
010608 biotechnology
medicine
lcsh:Miscellaneous systems and treatments
030304 developmental biology
Hepatitis
0303 health sciences
Innate immune system
biology
business.industry
lcsh:R
lcsh:RM1-950
Atopic dermatitis
Anti oxidant
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
immuno-modulation
lcsh:RZ409.7-999
Review article
lcsh:Therapeutics. Pharmacology
Complementary and alternative medicine
inflammation
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20936966
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Pharmacopuncture
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9ea1eb78b011807d6df0ef88c49fd7a3