What are the health benefits of gotu kola?

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Gotu kola is a vegetable quite familiar to our daily life. Gotu kola grows wild everywhere and is widely grown among the people. This vegetable is not only a nutritious food but also has many medicinal properties. Therefore, people have known to use gotu kola as a medicine.

1. What is gotu kola?

Gotu kola (Centella asiatica) is also known as snow herb or lotus root, usually growing in humid, shady places, valleys, ditch banks, porous humus soils in tropical regions. Gotu kola has the following morphological characteristics:
Gotu kola roots are creamy white and surrounded by a layer of hairs. The roots of this plant are composed of rhizomes at the base and internodes that grow at the vertebrae. Stem smooth and thin, is a type of orchid, green or reddish green, with roots at the nodes. The leaves grow from a petiole about 5–20 cm long, green, kidney-shaped with long petioles and rounded apex, smooth texture with propeller-reticular veins. Centella asiatica flowers are mainly white or may be reddish, growing in small, rounded crowns near the ground. The fruit is densely reticulated, ripens in about 3 months, and the entire plant, including the roots, is harvested by hand.

2. What is the effect of gotu kola?

Gotu kola is a very healthy vegetable that is often used as a clean vegetable with many processing methods such as raw vegetables, boiled vegetables, stir-fried vegetables, vegetable soup or gotu kola juice
In Traditional Medicine Centella asiatica is a herb with many useful effects, often used as medicine to treat bacterial, viral or parasitic infections such as:
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) Shingles Leprosy , cholera, dysentery Syphilis Common cold, flu, H1N1 (swine flu), Tuberculosis and schistosomiasis. Gotu kola helps to treat fatigue, anxiety, depression, mental disorders, Alzheimer's disease and improve memory. Gotu kola is also used to heal damaged skin, injuries and blood circulation problems including blood clots in the legs and varicose veins.
In folklore, this plant is also used to treat heatstroke, tonsillitis, pleurisy, hepatitis, jaundice, systemic lupus erythematosus, stomach pain, diarrhea, indigestion, stomach ulcers, epilepsy , asthma, diabetes.
In Indian medicine, gotu kola is considered a tonic, nutritional booster and diuretic.
Some studies show that this plant has the effect of curing gastrointestinal ulcers, healing internal and external scars. Gotu kola is sometimes applied to the skin to heal the skin and reduce scarring, including pregnancy stretch marks.

3. How is it good to eat gotu kola? How much dose is enough?

In order to eat gotu kola to bring many benefits to the body, you should pay attention to the following issues:
Every day, only drink 1 cup of gotu kola juice (equivalent to about 40g). For blood circulation problems in the legs such as varicose veins: take about 60-180mg of gotu kola extract per day. Gotu kola should not be used for more than 6 weeks in a row without a doctor's prescription. Gotu kola should not be used by people who have a history of liver disease or have ever had skin lesions or cancer. The dose of this vegetable may be different for each person, depending on age, health conditions, and several other concerns. Please consult your doctor and doctor for an appropriate dose

4. Some folk remedies use gotu kola to cure diseases

Heat treatment for heat rash, rashes, boils...: Use 30-100g of freshly pounded (or ground) pennywort to drink daily. Can combine sam, marjoram. Jaundice due to low heat: Take 30-40g gotu kola, 30g rock sugar, drink well. Blood in urine: Prepare a handful of herbs and centella asiatica each, wash, crush and squeeze out drinking water. Measles: prepare 30-60g gotu kola, drink well. Can combine herbs. Summer diarrhea (due to the test): take 30g of gotu kola and drink with rice water. Dengue fever: Using 30-100g of fresh gotu kola drink can add squid grass. Constipation: Take 30g of crushed gotu kola, drink water, and put the residue on the navel. Breast abscess (early stage): Take gotu kola and sharp areca pods to drink. Can add a little alcohol, the more effective. Menstrual cramps with back pain: Use powdered dried gotu kola drink 2 tablespoons a day (equivalent to about 30g) Note: When the body is in a bad state, having abdominal pain due to welding, avoid abusing vegetables. mother.
Gotu kola is a vegetable that is extremely easy to find and has many uses for daily life. So, thanks to the useful use of this vegetable, we can beautify ourselves and help our body be healthier every day.

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