Indian Pennywort
Scientific names: Ipomea Reniformis / Centella Asiatica
Name of Indian Pennywort in different languages:
English: Centella, Gotukola, Mouse ear wort
Sanskrit: मण्डूकपर्णी (mandukaparni) means Rat’s ear.
Hindi: Brahmi booti
Malayalam: മുത്തിൾ -muththil, Kudangal-കുടങ്ങൽ, Mandookaparni- മണ്ഡൂകപർണി
Plant description:
Centella asiatica or Indian pennywort is a slender, herbaceous, perennial creeper, grows in tropical wet areas. The leaves are pale green, kidney shaped or round, smooth and long-stalked, glabrous, around 2 to 5 cm in diameter, the stems are slender, green to brownish-green in color, flowers are small and white or pinkish in color, born in small, rounded umbels, below 3 mm in size.
Leaf Arrangement
| Shape-Round | Margin-sinuate | Venation-palmate |
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Useful plant parts:
Whole plant
Medicinal uses:
It is used in the treatments of hepatitis B, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, Skin disorders, urological disorders, to increase memory power, intelligent, it can control Vata disorders, relive in gastric ulcers, phlebitis
Chemical content:
Pentacyclic Triterpenoids, Asiaticoside, Brahmoside, Acetic Acid.
How to prepare medicine:
It can consume as a curry.
Collect leaves and slice in to small pieces and add some shallot,mix together and pour some lemon juice on it and keep it for 10 minutes and consume, it is capable to increase HB level
Indian Penny wort is used as an ingredient in the Ayurveda medicines like:-
Paphanadi Ghritham
Paphanadi thailam
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