Gotu kola (Centella asitica)

Gotu kola (Centella asitica), Tonic Drink and Drugs Brain

Besides being used for pickles, Bogor, gotu kola is often eaten raw as fresh vegetables to strengthen the hull. Taste bitter and sweet, because it leaves people used to call antanan Sunda. According to Dr. Dalimartha Setiawan,
gotu kola has anti-infectious, anti venom, antirheumatic. This herb is cool, and also has tonic properties, all properties are due within gotu kola was found more than 20 chemical compounds and mineral salts. For example, compounds triterpenoida glycosides are active in a variety of healing the disease was widely used in India to treat leprosy (leprosy).

Several academic studies that have been conducted to prove the efficacy of Indonesia also this plant. As the laxative urine has been demonstrated Malawat Salim (Hasanuddin University, 1981) in dogs as experimental animals. Alcohol extract of leaves of gotu kola have proven antimicrobial power, gotu kola leaf infusion with 7.5% level best to dissolve calcium kidney stones, and gotu kola extracts can inhibit the growth of enteric bacteria.

According Sidartawan who is also the author of books medicinal plants native to Indonesia that gotu kola is also useful to strengthen and provide energy for the brain. Added, the tea made from fresh leaves of gotu kola is believed to stop a dry cough, increased appetite, relieve fever, nosebleeds, remove worms and as a sedative. But, "Be careful, because, in high doses can cause negative effects, such as narcotics, headaches, or even sometimes can lead to coma," explains Dr. Dalimartha Setiawan.