Extraordinary Benefits of Gotu Kola Leaf

Extraordinary Benefits of Gotu Kola Leaf

Gotu Kola (latin: Centella Asiatica) is a plant that is beneficial for the brain. This plant usually grows in gardens, fields, rice fields or on the roadside. This plant is good for daily consumption. As a substitute for ginko biloba found in synthetic supplements.
Already for a long time, gotu kola has been used for medicine, such as skin drugs, nervous disorders and improving blood circulation. This plant originates from tropical Asia, spread in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, India, the People's Republic of China, Japan and Australia and then spread to various other countries. The name commonly known for this plant in addition to gotu kola is the leaves of the legs of the horse and antanan.

Gotu Kola type
Gotu Kola is an annual herbal plant that grows creeper and blooms throughout the year. The type of gotu kola that is often found is red gotu kola and green gotu kola.
• Red Gotu Kola. Red pennywort is also known as antanan taman or antanan batu because it is found in rocky, dry and open areas. Red pennywort grows with stolon (geragih) and does not have stems, but has rhizomes (short rhizomes).
• Green Gotu Kola. Green pennywort is often found in rice fields and between grasses. The place that is favored by green gotu kola is a place that is rather damp and open. In addition, there are four types of plant such as gotu kola or antanan, namely antanan kembang, antanan beurit, antanan kanan and antanan water.

Gotu Kola content
• Gotu Kola contains asiaticoside, thankuniside, isothankuniside, madecassoside, brahmoside, brahmic acid, brahminoside, madasiatic acid, meso-inositol, centelloside, carotenoids, hydrocotylin, vellarine, tannins.
• mineral salts such as potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium and iron.
The triterpenoidal glycoside is thought to be called asiaticoside, which is antilepra and an extraordinary healer. Existing vellarine substances give a bitter taste.

Benefits of Gotu Kola
Apart from being good for brain intelligence, it also has many other benefits. Among them:

1. Improve memory
2. Increase memory nerves
3. Increase mental and stamina
4. Stop bleeding (haemostatika)
5. Cleanse the blood
6. Blood circulation
7. All urine (diuretics)
8. Heat reduction (antipyretics)
9. Anti-bacterial, tonic, antispasmic, anti-inflammatory, hypotensive, insecticidal, hypo-allergenic and stimulant
10. Existing saponin inhibits the production of excessive scar tissue (inhibits the occurrence of keloids)
11. Increase blood circulation to the arms and legs
12. Prevent varicose veins and tendons
13. Reduce symptoms of stress and depression

To get the benefits of gotu kola leaves can be consumed directly, such as fresh vegetables, can also be dried to be made into tea or extracts taken to be made capsules or processed into cream, ointments, acne medications, and body lotion. Thus, we know that it is very beneficial for these plants to receive less attention.