English name: Asiatic pennywort / Indian Pennyworth / Gotu Kola / Indian Navelwort
Malay name: Pegaga / Daun kaki kuda / Gagan-gagan / Kerok Batok / Antanan / Rendeng
Chinese name: 金钱莲
“Wonderful Hero of Tropical Rainforest”
Botanical name: Centella asiatica
Family: Mackinlayaceae
Description: Coin-shaped plant rich with vitamins.
Benefits:
- Treats anxiety
- Reduce swelling and improve blood flow on venous insufficiency and varicose veins
- Decrease joint pain and skin hardening, and improved finger movement
- Reduce insonmia
- Reduce rheumatoid arthritis
- Treatment of wounds, burns, and ulcerous skin ailments, and prevention of keloid and hypertrophic scar
- Extracts of the plant have been employed to treat second- and third-degree burns
- Extracts have been used topically to accelerate healing, particularly in cases of chronic postsurgical and post-trauma wounds
- Extracts have been administered orally to treat stressinduced stomach and duodenal ulcers