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Gutu Kola / Guta Kola / Gotu Kola
Hydrocotyle asiatica
Gutu Kola, Latin name is Hydrocotyle asiatica, contains rejuvenating properties and is rich in vitamins A, B,C, D and minerals, calcium, chromium, cobalt, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, sodium, potassium, selenium, silica and zinc.
It is a stimulant, blood purifier and energizer rejuvenator, brain food and energizers the brain cells and preserves them.
It restores worn out bodies and prevents nervous breakdown, mental and physical fatigue. Improves your memory and relieves pain related to arthritis.
Guta Kola is known as the elixir of life and for its longevity properties.
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Gutu Kola / Guta Kola / Gotu / Guto Kola Hydrocotyle asiatica |
There is a saying that I have heard that 3 leaves a day keeps old age away. Guta Kola will keep men virile till old age, and increases sex drive and balances your hormones. It has been used to treat leprosy and tuberculosis. It oxygenates the cells and regulates blood pressure.
Metaphysically it is known to open the crown chakra which is an energy centre at the top of your head that once opened will attune you with your intuition, awareness and higher consciousness.
Gotu Kola is a minor feature in the longevity myth of the Tai Chi Chuan master Li Ching-Yun. He purportedly lived to be 256, due in part to his usage of traditional Chinese herbs including Gotu Kola (from Wikipedia).
You only need to eat 3 leaves per day of this incredible small, but powerful herb.
Other Names
Indian Pennywort, Indian water navelwort, Gotu Kola, Asiatic Pennywort, Brahmi, Chi-hsueh Ts'ao, man t'ien hsing, Brahma-manduki, Luei Gong Gen, Takip-kohol, Antanan, Pegagan, Pegaga, vallaarai, Kula kud, Bai Bua Bok, Antanan gede, asiaticoside, asiatischer wassernabel, bavilacqua, brahmi-buti, brahmi manduc(a)parni, calingan rambat, Centella coriacea, coda-gam, gagan-gagan, gang-gagan, hydrocolyte asiatique, idrocotyle, kaki kuda, kaki kuta, kerok batok, kos tekosan, lui gong gen, marsh penny, pagaga, panegowan, papaiduh, pegagan, pepiduh, piduh, puhe beta, rending, sheep rot, talepetrako, tete kadho, tete karo, thankuni, thick-leaved pennywort, tsubo-kusa, tungchian, tungke-tunfke, water pennyrot, white rot.
Hydrocotyle asiaticaL UMBELLIFERAE
Indian Pennywort Centella / Indian Water Navel Wort
Indian Pennywort was employed traditionally in the Indian and African continents as an important treatment of leprosy, and modern research has now shown that the plant does possess some action against the leprosy bacteria. The herb is called brahrni in the Indian Ayurvedic medical system which still employs it. In Europe it was last mentioned in the French Pharmacopoeia of 1884.
Hydrocoyle is attributed with many other medicinal properties and one which has recently attracted attention is its supposed general beneficial tonic effect; this, however, remains to be proved.
Description Slender trailing umbelliferous plant with reddish prostrate stems, rooting at the nodes, from which also arise 1 -3 petioles to 15 cul tall bearing glabrous, entire, or crenate, cupped, orbi c u lar-reni form leaves, 7-15 cm long. Flower-heads bear 3 or 6 reddish, sessile flowers.
Distribution Indigenous to subtropical zones, such as India, Ceylon, southern Africa, southern United States, Malaysia. Also found in eastern Europe. On marshy sites to a 6oo m altitude.
Cultivation Wild plant.
Constituents A heteroside (saponoside), asiaticoside, which is antibiotic and also assists in the formation of scar tissue; triterpene acids, including indocentoic acid; a glycoside, indocentelloside; an alkaloid, hydrocotylin; resin; pectic acid; vitamin C; a bitter compound, vellarin; tannin (9%) .1 sugars; volatile oil.
Uses (fresh or dried plant) Diuretic; tonic; purgative.
Used in India and Africa for 'blood-purifying' purposes in venereal conditions and tuberculosis. The active principle, asiaticoside, appears to exert a direct effect on the bacterium (Mycobacterium leprae) involved in leprosy (possibly by dissolving the protective waxy coat around the bacterium), and also assists in scar healing - for which purpose it is used in ointments. Also ffirmerly used in fevers, rheumatism and gastric complaints, including dysentery. There is some evidence it may act as a general tonic.
Used in Africa as a snuff.
Contra- indications POISONOUS. Large doses narcotic, producing vertigo and possibly corria.
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