Centella Asiatica (Gotu Kola) Has Benefits To Improve Intelligence Of Human And Help Other Diseases

Centella asiatica is known as Gotu kola, is a small, herbaceous, frost-tender perennial plant.It is also called the Asiatic pennywort or indian pennywort in English.The plant is aquatic, it is especially sensitive to biological and chemical pollutants in the water, which may be absorbed into the plant.It grows in tropical swampy areas.The stems are slender, creeping stolons, green to reddish-green in color, connecting plants to each other.

Gotu kola contains asiaticoside (triterpene glycoside, brahmoside,  brahminoside (saponin glycoside), calsium, magnesium, sodium, tannic acid, vitamin K, vellarin, and madecassoside.Centella asiatica can improve intelligence of human.It was experimented by experts.Medicinal parts used leaves and aerial parts.

The Benefits of Centella Asiatica :

• Improves memory, intelligence and concentration.
• Cures leprosy.
• Cures tuberculosis (TB).
• Increases endurance.
• Generates function of the nervous system in the human brain.
• Inhibits the production of excessive scar tissue.
• Cleanses the blood.
• Smoothens urine.
• Improves blood circulation in the veins.
• Cure syphilis.
• Overcomes the body weak because of old age (senility).

• Treats epilepsy.
• Increases breast milk.
• Reduce blood pressure.
• Treats diarrhea.
• Being anti-senile.
• Becomes anti-stress.
• Treats hemorrhoids.
• Eliminates pain in the joints.
• Repair the dead skin cells.
• Stimulates the growth of nails, hair, and connective tissue.
• Accelerates wound healing.
• Cures Swelling of the tissue that heals scleroderma, psoriatic arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis (arthritis of the spine).
• Prevents depression.
• Prevents insomnia.
• Treats anxiety.
• Relieves mental fatigue.
• Prevents hepatitis.
• Treats varicose veins.
• Treats chronic venous in sufficiency.
• Treats mental disorders.

The Effects of Centella asiatica (Gotu Kola) :

• Pregnant women should not consume Centella asiatica (Gotu kola) because miscarriage can occur spontaneously.Woman in breast-feeding is not recommended to consume gotu kola because it is not good for the baby.
• Excessive consumption of  gotu kola can lead to allergic skin, dizziness, stomach nausea, headache, drowsiness, vertigo and coma.
• Gotu kola is a wild plant that contains asiaticoside and thakuniside, If it is consumed for long time, it can reduce the fertility rate, which eventually lead to infertility, based Research of Boely C.