is where many viral articles become misleading.
There isn’t good clinical evidence that eating purslane detoxifies the liver or cleanses the kidneys. Your liver and kidneys already perform essential metabolic and filtration functions.
More importantly, purslane contains relatively high amounts of oxalate. High oxalate intake can be problematic for people susceptible to certain kidney stones.
There have even been published case reports of acute oxalate-related kidney injury following high purslane consumption, although case reports don’t tell us how common this is.
Anyone with kidney disease or a history of calcium-oxalate
