Portulaca oleracea ( Common Purslane, also known as Verdolaga, Pigweed, Little Hogweed, or Pusley, and Moss rose ), is an annual succulent in the family Portulacaceae, which may reach 40 cm in height.

Purslane has a taproot with fibrous secondary roots and is able to tolerate poor, compacted soils and drought.

Purslane may be used fresh as a salad, stir-fried, or cooked as spinach is, and because of its mucilaginous quality it also is suitable for soups and stews.

Purslane is one of the seven herbs used in the symbolic dish served at the nanakusa-no-sekku ( 七草の節句 ), the traditional Japanese new year ritual.

Common Purslane ( Portulaca oleracea ) is widely considered an edible plant, and in some areas an invasive type of weed.

A great danger is the presence of the alien invader, the Pink Purslane or Stewarton Flower which will spread rapidly and destroy the native herbs by out-competing them ( 2007 ).

A very well exposed syncline is at the Sideling Hill roadcut on Interstate 68 in western Maryland, USA, where the Rockwell Formation and overlying Purslane Sandstone are exposed.

The ridge is capped by an erosion-resistant conglomerate and sandstone of Mississippian ( early Carboniferous ) geologic age, the Purslane Sandstone of the Pocono Formation.

The Stewarton Flower, so named due to its local abundance and recorded as such by the Kilmarnock Glenfield Ramblers, is otherwise known as Pink Purslane ( Claytonia sibirica ) is found in damp areas.

Light House Island represents the southern limit for Scots Lovage in Europe and the northern limit for Sea Purslane in Ireland.

As a companion plant, Purslane provides ground cover to create a humid microclimate for nearby plants, stabilizing ground moisture.

Because of its high water content Purslane cooks down quite a bit.

Low-growing, it consists of Beach Spinifex, Stalky Grass, Goatsfoot, Bulls-head Vine, Sea Purslane and Tar Vine.

Purslane contains more omega-3 fatty acids ( alpha-linolenic acid in particular ) than any other leafy vegetable plant.

Research published by Artemis P. Simopoulos states that Purslane has 0. 01 mg / g of eicosapentaenoic acid ( EPA ).

Purslane can be eaten raw or cooked, and lends itself to stir fry dishes.

Claytonia perfoliata ( Miner's lettuce, Winter Purslane, or Indian lettuce ; syn.

The exposed rocks consist of the Devonian-Mississippian Rockwell Formation, underlying the Mississippian Purslane Sandstone.

In both conditions the emotional and perceptual sensitivity is diminished, but no depression occurs such as is seen clinically or may be produced in normal persons by drugs.

The term antidepressant is sometimes applied to any therapy ( e. g., psychotherapy, electro-convulsive therapy, acupuncture ) or process ( e. g., sleep disruption, increased light levels, regular exercise ) found to improve a clinically depressed mood.

Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as NLP, an abbreviation for " no light perception.

It is difficult and sometimes impossible to assign a mechanism to any particular bradycardia, but the underlying mechanism is not clinically relevant to treatment, which is the same in both cases of sick sinus syndrome: a permanent pacemaker.

In the novel I, Claudius by English writer Robert Graves, Caligula is presented as being a murderous sociopath from his childhood, who became clinically insane early in his reign.

Digoxin from the foxglove plant is used clinically, whereas ouabain is used only experimentally due to its extremely high potency.

Charcot – Marie – Tooth disease ( CMT ), also known as Charcot – Marie – Tooth neuropathy, hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy ( HMSN ) and peroneal muscular atrophy ( PMA ) — is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of inherited disorders of the peripheral nervous system characterised by progressive loss of muscle tissue and touch sensation across various parts of the body.

Commonly, this term is used to refer specifically to infectious diseases, which are clinically evident diseases that result from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular organisms, and aberrant proteins known as prions.

An infection that does not and will not produce clinically evident impairment of normal functioning, such as the presence of the normal bacteria and yeasts in the gut, is not considered a disease ; by contrast, an infection that is asymptomatic during its incubation period, but expected to produce symptoms later, is usually considered a disease.

The current version of the DSM characterizes a mental disorder as " a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual is associated with present distress ... or disability ... or with a significant increased risk of suffering.

Spitzer argued that " mental disorders are a subset of medical disorders " but the task force decided on the DSM statement: " Each of the mental disorders is conceptualized as a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome.

" Extrapolations " are where data is used in a situation which has potentially clinically important differences than the original study situation.

Number needed to treat or Number needed to harm are ways of expressing the effectiveness and safety of an intervention in a way that is clinically meaningful.

Seizure prediction-based devices using long-term EEG recordings is presently being evaluated as a new way to stop epileptic seizures before they appear clinically.

For all of the reasons explained in the above paragraphs, deciding whether a blood glucose in the borderline range of 45 – 75 mg / dL ( 2. 5-4. 2 mM ) represents clinically problematic hypoglycemia is not always simple.

In rare circumstances, a low TSH indicates primary failure of the pituitary, or temporary inhibition of the pituitary due to another illness ( euthyroid sick syndrome ) and so checking the T < sub > 4 </ sub > and T < sub > 3 </ sub > is still clinically useful.

Morphine acetate, which is another name for heroin is a Schedule I controlled substance, so it is not used clinically in the United States ; it is a sanctioned medication in the United Kingdom and in Canada, its use being particularly common ( nearly to the degree of the hydrochloride salt ) in the United Kingdom.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

As a means of silencing a discussion which ought to have taken place, the statement is an effective one: we sympathize with the universal confusion which gives rise to such convictions.

From that time to this my religious concern is that I might give effective help to the bringing in of God's kingdom on earth.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

The existence of a community is a state of mind -- a conviction that goals and values are widely shared, that effective communication is possible, that mutual trust is reasonably assured.

This angry and exasperated stance which Patchen has maintained in his poetry for almost fifteen years has been successfully modulated into a kind of woe that is as effective as anger and still expresses his disapproval of the modern world.

Yet it is plainly time to make a start, and to be effective the first move should be highly dramatic, without being fanatical.

External aid can be effective only if it is a complement to self-help.

He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.

The Merchant Marine is the `` Fourth Arm of Defense '', for a strong and effective American Merchant Marine is essential to the economy and security of our Nation.

The effective recognition of excellence and its nurture has to be learned and is not learned in a day, nor even in a year.

No one can be as effective as the president in inspiring older men to welcome imaginative new teachers whose philosophy or approach to their specialties is quite different.

Really there is no reason why this fine exercise should not find its way into your leg program at all times, for the following suggestions show why it is so effective: 1.

But until we have an effective spacecraft, the answer to the hunter-killer problem is manned aircraft.

The easiest way to describe this release is to say that it reproduces an interesting and effective Steinberg performance with minimal alteration of its musical values.

Tire size can be determined in several ways but the one that is the easiest and as accurate as any is by measuring the effective radius of a wheel and tire assembly.

The key to effective marketing is wrapped up in defining your company's marketing problems realistically.