Vietnamese Home Remedy Of Centella

Around shady, moist corner of garden, centella creepers are found greeny and fresh. These beautiful leafy internodes with strong growing health are known as a wonderful home remedy for years to Vietnamese.

Different names: Indian pennywort/ Centella Asiatica/ Brahmi/ Gotu Kola

Description: Centella asiatica is a perennial, herbaceous creeper with kidney shaped leaves, native to India, China, and found in shady, moist ground garden corner.

Health benefits

For Vietnamese, Centella asiatica becomes familiar as a herbal remedies for many common ailments. The slender branches and small internodes are collected, coarsely washed, and then finely dried to use as tea, in variation of recipes, and so on.

This potent ayurvedic plant contains cholinergic chemical like gamma-aminobutyric acid, Bacosides A and B that help with nerve and cell rejuvenation. It is a natural relaxant and stress reliever and has been used in the treatment of stress, attention deficit disorder, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

This Indian pennywort herb is health beneficial as a heat relieving therapy, fever treatment, pimples cure. Drinking sun dried centella tea daily and you will see the results.

One more benefit of Centella is wound healing. Centella contains substances called triterpenoids, which have been shown to aid in the healing of wounds.  These chemicals help strengthen the skin and increase the amount of antioxidants in the area.  They also help increase the blood supply.  To use centella to help speed up healing, a topical ointment is recommended.

Patients with athritis can drink or eat centella in moderation as a treatment. However, do not eat excessively as this can lead to lower blood pressure.