Portulaca and Reduced Systolic Blood Pressure

• The effects of purslane consumption on blood pressure in adults: A grading of recommendations, assessment, development, and evaluation-assessed systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

  • 2025-10
  • Review
  • Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences 30(1)
  • • Mahdi Vajdi
    • Negin Tahvilian
    • Shirin Hassanizadeh
    • Malihe Jafari
    • Gholamreza Askari

  • PubMed: 41306619
  • DOI: 10.4103/jrms.jrms_48_24

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Systolic Blood Pressure

  • Low evidence
  • Adults

  Pooled analysis showed that purslane consumption significantly reduced SBP (WMD: -3.06 mmHg, 95% CI: -6.02 to - 0.11, P = 0.042; I2 = 95.5%, P < 0.001).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes