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Centella asiatica

Scientific Name
Centella asiatica
Family Name
Apiaceae
Common Names
Indian pennywort
Local Names
Adakunkuni, thankuni, takamanik (Bangladesh), Brahmi (India), Pegagan(Indonesia), Phak nok (Laos), Pegaga (general) (Malaysia), Ghodtapre (Nepal), Takip-kohol,tapingan-daga (tagalog),hahang-halo (bisaya) (Philippines), Gotu kola (Sri Lanka), Rau má, tích tiết thảo, liên tiền thảo (Vietnam)
Description
A creeping herb; stem with rooting at node. Leaves long, rounded t broad or kidney-shaped, cordately based, deeply toothed margins. Flowers minute, pinkish and red, ina cluster. Fruits small like a grain of barley with 7-9 ridges. (India)
A small perennial herb, creeping with long stolons (up to 2.5 m) roting at the nodes;young parts more or less puberulous. Leaves are rosettes, simple, lamina orbicular-reniform, 1-7cm in diameter, regulalry crenate or crenate dentate, palmately veind,subglabrous. Petioles 1-40 (50 cm) long, glabrous, to puberulous, broadened at thebase into a leaf sheath; stipulates absent. Inflorescens simple umbel. Flowersbisexual. Herb (Indonesia)
Centella asitica (L.) Urb. is a tender umbel herb, numerous creeping stems, smoothroots at the nodes of stems. Leaves alternate or 2-5 tufted at the nodes, orbicularshaped with a crenate margin, petiole 5 to 20cm long. flowers are 3-4-flowered umbel,each flower has, 2-5 umbels arising in axillary, 2-3 bracts, 5 sepals, 5 petals, purple,Fruits are globular or oval in shape, the mericarps cleary flattened , 7-9 ribs are raised rugose. Flowering and fruiting period: March to July. (Laos)
It is a slender, herbaceous creeping herb. Stems are long, prostate, filiform, often reddish and with long internodes, rooting at nodes. Leaves are shovel shaped leaves emerging alternately in clusters at the stem nodes. Flowers are insignificant and gree
Prostrate perennial herb, producing runners and rooting at nodes, with suborbicular or reniform, unlobed or shallowly lobed leaves having crenate-dentate margins, and pinkish to deep red flowers in simple umbels. (Nepal)
A small perennial herb, creeping with long stolons, rooting at nodes; leaves in rosettes, simple; inflorescence an axillary simple umbel; 3-flowered; flowers bisexual, 5-merous, petals entire, greenish, pinkish or reddish; fruit consists of 2 one-seeded mericarps. (Philippines)
Small trailing herb. Stems slender, prostrate, rooting at the joints. Leaves alternate or tufted at each node, orbicular, round or kidney-shaped, obviously crenate. Inflorescence in single umbel, bearing 1-5 small flowers, white or reddish, without stalks. Fruit very small and compressed. (Vietnam)
Uses
Tonic, diuretic, digestive, dysentery, convulsions, eczema, leprosy, itch, memory(Bangladesh)
Cooling, soporific, cardio, nervine diseases, asthma, leprosy, fever, leprosy, epilepsy,brain (India)
Skin diseases, leprosy, urinary tract infections, sedative (Indonesia)
Fever, antipyretic, diuretic, enhancing urination, improving liver functions, gonorrhea,diabetes (Laos)
Skin diseases, tonic, dysentery, senility, hepatitis (Malaysia)
Memory retention (Nepal)
Keloids, leg ulcers, phlebitis, wounds, scleroderma, lung ailments, leprosy, surgicallesions, striae distensae, cellulitis, aphthae, hypertension (Philippines)
Boils, blood purifier, coagulated blood, diuretic, dysentery, eczema, fever, glandularenlargement, indigestion, leprosy, elephantiasis (Sri Lanka)
Anti inflammatory, anti febrile, diuretic, galactagogue, fever, measles, haematemesis,epistaxis, diarrhoea, dysentery, constipation, leucoderma, jaundice, dysuria,furunculosis, dysmenorrhoea, varices, contusions, fractures, sprains (Vietnam)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Indonesia - Manoko
Nepal - Brindaban, Hetauda
Philippines - LBES Medicinal Genebank, ERDB
Sri Lanka - Bibila, Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pinna, Pallekale, Pattipola
Vietnam - Ha Noi
Remarks
Centella asiatica (GRIN)

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