Centella Asiatica Tea, Gotu Kola Recipes And Health Benefits

What's the Centella Asiatica tea benefits, and how to mix herbs for the treatment of various diseases? Centella Asiatica is also called Gotu Kola, Asiatic Pennywort or Indian Pennywort. The plant is a kind of weeds that live wildly around us. Centella Asiatica plants can found on the edge of a ditch, rice fields, under shady trees and shrubs. Before mixing Centella Asiatica herbs, you should first identify the characteristics of Centella Asiatica in the previous article.

According to legend, Gotu Kola or Centella Asiatica is one of the plants that make long-lived. This herb is taught from T'ai Chi Ch'uan Li Ching-Yuen, he lives up to 256 years because of Centella Asiatica's herb. There are several types namely Centella Asiatica red and Centella Asiatica green. Centella Asiatica red grows in rocky, dry and open areas. While Centella Asiatica green grew in rice fields and on the sidelines of the grass. In addition, there are other types, Indonesians named Antanan Kembang, Antanan Beurit, Antanan Mountain and Antanan Water.

Centella Asiatica Tea Recipes

Traditional medicine has long known the Centella Asiatica tea benefits to treat varicose veins, chronic venous insufficiency, psoriasis, minor injuries, and stimulates breast milk. According to research from the American Cancer Society, Centella Asiatica plant extracts are able to reduce tumor cell growth. Centella Asiatica leaves are used as a medicinal herb in the Ayurvedic tradition, herbal traditions in the West, herbal traditions in Africa and China.

Centella Asiatica tea benefits to stimulate skin regeneration in burns and prevent scar tissue formation. Centella Asiatica leaves have Tanin, Asiaticosida and Antilepra compounds, to heal wounds and inflammation in the throat, abdominal pain, and intestines. Centella Asiatica leaves are sweet, cool, cleanse the blood, and improve the cardiovascular tissue. In addition to the various benefits of Centella Asiatica leaves, these herbs are also rich in minerals, including potassium, magnesium, calcium and iron salts. Here's how to make a simple Centella Asiatica tea in your home:

1. Centella Asiatica tea recipe to cure leprosy, nosebleeds, and hypertension. Grab a handful of fresh Centella Asiatica, then boil with 2 glasses of water, until water becomes three quarters of glass. Drink the tea three quarters of glass, three times a day.
2. How to make Centella Asiatica tea to cure hemorrhoid? Take 4 to 5 crops with roots, then washed and boiled in 2 cups water for 5 minutes. Strain this tea and drink a glass, twice a day for several days.
3. Recipe to cure Fever. Grab a handful of Centella Asiatica, wash it and then smoothed. Add three quarters of glass of clean water and a little salt, then stir and strain before drinking. Make and drink this herb every morning before breakfast, to treat a common fever. For unknown fever, give it alternately for 10 days. Making a second potion is the same as above and added a handful of Momordica Charantia leaves.
4. Tea recipe to cure Measles. Grab 2 handfuls of Centella Asiatica leaves and washed, boiled into 2 cups water to 1 cup. Drinking every day until healed.
5. Tea recipe to treat cough. Grab a handful of Centella Asiatica and wash it, then smoothed. Add water for three quarters of glass and a little sugar, then stir. Strain before drinking, do it once a day until healed.
6. Centella Asiatica tea to cure headaches. Grab a handful of leaves, and caraway as much as a quarter of a spoon. Boil both into a glass of water, and wait in 15 minutes until the water becomes half. Then strain, a cup of tea added a spoon of honey before drinking.
7. How to make Centella Asiatica tea to increase your appetite? Grab a handful of fresh Centella Asiatica leaves that have been wash and clean. Then boil with 2 glasses of water, wait in 15 minutes until the water becomes a glass. Drink a glass of tea per day and do it every day.

There is another method of squeezing (not tea) for the treatment of red and swollen eyes. Grab a handful of Centella Asiatica leaves that washed and clean, then smoothed. Squeeze this herb and strain, then drop it to the sick eye as much as 3 to 4 times a day.

The following way is the most bizarre, you may trust this method or not at all. For urinary treatment by chewing a handful of Centella Asiatica leaves that have been washed, then place on your navel. It is not clear the effect on the navel, but Indonesian has been do it as herbs for hundreds of years.

Reference

• Pharmacological Review on Centella asiatica: A Potential Herbal Cure-all. Indian J Pharm Sci, 2010.
• Centella Asiatica, image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.