CENTELLA ASIATICA
Source: Wikipedia
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OTHER NAMESTamil: Vallarai
English: Indian pennywort Telugu: Babassa : Mandukbrammi Malayalam: Vondelagi Kannada: Brahmi Marathi: Khulakudi Hindi: Kula kudi Sanskrit: Kudakam |
description & usage
This small creeping weed is common all over India, usually in marshy areas. Vallarai looks like brain's shape. Flowers minute, pinkish red, 3-6 in a cluster. Fruits are small.
Uses :
Enhance the memory power ,skin diseases, ulcerations, chronic and callous, scrofulous and syphilitic with gummatous infiltration (secondary and tertiary syphilis), in chronic and obstinate eczema, psoriasis, leprosy, malaria and fevers, epilepsy, insanity etc.,
How to Use:
For internal administration, the powder, the fluid extract and the syrup (Brahma rasayanam), are suitable, and for external application are employed the powder, the juice, the plaster, and the ointment . For skin eruptions supposed to arise from heat of blood, juice is applied as a lep generally combined with cadamba bark, ghee and black cumin. For mental weakness, for improving memory, powdered leaf in small doses is given with milk. For diseases of the skin, blood and nervous system, among children, and to cure gonorrhoea, jaundice and fevers, fresh leaf juice with milk and liquorice is recommended .
Parts Used:
Leaves
Taste:
Astringent
Action:
Alterative, tonic, diuretic, stimulant, diuretic
Uses :
Enhance the memory power ,skin diseases, ulcerations, chronic and callous, scrofulous and syphilitic with gummatous infiltration (secondary and tertiary syphilis), in chronic and obstinate eczema, psoriasis, leprosy, malaria and fevers, epilepsy, insanity etc.,
How to Use:
For internal administration, the powder, the fluid extract and the syrup (Brahma rasayanam), are suitable, and for external application are employed the powder, the juice, the plaster, and the ointment . For skin eruptions supposed to arise from heat of blood, juice is applied as a lep generally combined with cadamba bark, ghee and black cumin. For mental weakness, for improving memory, powdered leaf in small doses is given with milk. For diseases of the skin, blood and nervous system, among children, and to cure gonorrhoea, jaundice and fevers, fresh leaf juice with milk and liquorice is recommended .
Parts Used:
Leaves
Taste:
Astringent
Action:
Alterative, tonic, diuretic, stimulant, diuretic
