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Sometimes we pass a lot of things around us. I have often seen and never thought of anything, until one morning I noticed it because the dew on this plant, looks beautiful and the green leaves made me interested in taking some pictures for collection.
I was curious and started looking for information about this plant on internet and the results were really amazing.
Apparently, the leaves of this plant have been widely used as traditional medicine in India and China. Here's, I think the natural medicine community has encouraged me to gain new knowledge, especially about natural medicine, this is good.
Centella Asiatica is easy to cultivate and propagate vegetatively. Gotu Kola plants in their natural habitat grow a lot in fields, plantations, roadsides and in yards. This plant, which originates from tropical Asia, prefers soil that is slightly moist, well-lit or somewhat sheltered. Okay, now let's look at some of the properties of this herbal plant.
- Helps Improve Cognitive Function
- Reducing Anxiety and Stress
- Moisturizes the skin
- Helps relieve joint pain
- Relieve Insomnia
- Overcoming Stretch Marks
- Treating coughs
- Overcoming fever
- Others
Gotu Kola leaves are rich in minerals such as potassium salts, magnesium, calcium, iron, triterpenocia glycosides, and also have anti-infective, antitoxic properties.
This plant is known as a plant with a variety of benefits for skin health and overall body health, to get the various benefits of Gotu Kola leaves, you can consume them in the following ways :
- Wash the gotu kola leaves under running water
- Put half a teaspoon of dried Gotu Kola leaves in a glass.
- Add hot water to the glass.
- Take a few moments, then strain the Gotu Kola leaves.
For optimal results, you can consume these leaves regularly 2-3 times a day, so that the benefits of Gotu Kola leaves can be absorbed properly by the body.
Or you want to get the benefits with more taste, for example Juice. Nice idea, and here's how to cultivate it :
Ingredients :
- Gotu Kola leaf
- Carrot
- Jicama
- Lemon / lime
- Enough water
How to process it :
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Gotu Kola leaves are also effective in treating coughs and here's how to process :
Ingredients :
- 2 handfuls of Gotu Kola leaves
- Enough water
You wash Gotu Kola leaves thoroughly under running water. Then, you mash Gotu Kola leaves until smooth and give a little water. After smooth, you squeeze and strain the collision Gotu Kola. You drink 1/4 cup of gotu kola water once a day for 14 days.
There are still many benefits and ways to use this plant not explained in this post. Really appreciate if there's additional information or your experience about this magical plant in comments column.
Thank you for visiting and reading my post.
Regards
Gunawan Ramli
I always love something personal in addition to the facts. My family used to forage and eat his a lot at our old apartment, where it grew on the roadside in abundance. A recipe showing your personal use of these leaves and/or how they impact your life is what I love most.
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Now, I have some plans with Gotu Kola plants in my house, I will probably share them in the next post..
This idea emerged after reading your comments @justinparker thanks for suggestions.
Amazing for me the properties of this plant, I always believed that it was ornamental, thank you for your information.
Thanks for kind words,I'm glad you read it, really appreciate..
Good day for you and family
Thank you for covering this plant. It is abundance in my hometown but I don't really care about it until knowing the benefit of it from this post. I am more believe that nature totally fulfill our needs in this term is for medicine. If know all of plant around us, maybe we can't stop to say thank you to our environment.
I love reading your perspective about nature and plants around us, protecting it is the best way to thank you.
Have a nice day @abdulhamids
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i love Gotu Kola. In the U.S where I am we have to grow it in pots and take indoors in the winter when it gets too cold. When I was in Hawai'i it was growing everywhere wild. Thank you for sharing
Hawaii is a very beautiful place, heaven of beauty and paradise of gotu kola 😊 Thank you for giving a kind word, nice too meet you @ofsedgeandsalt
Someone gave me a Gotu Kola plant a few weeks ago. Have planted it, just before our autumn rain and it's taken off already. Hope it spreads as prolifically as yours now Gunawan. ♥︎♥︎⚖️♥︎♥︎