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Gotu kola
Heals
wounds, improves circulation in the legs, relieves anxiety, promotes sleep
This creeping,
marsh-loving plant isn't well known outside its native range of China, India
and the South Pacific. In those regions, however, gotu kola has quite a
reputation. In China, it's considered the herb of choice to promote longevity,
in part because it was used regularly by the Chinese herbalist LiChing Yun,
who, legend says, lived to celebrate his 256th birthday.
In India, gotu kola is
known as the herb of enlightenment. "This plant is called bramhi, or 'greatest
of the great,' " says Jay L. Glaser, M.D., medical director of the Maharishi
Ayurvedic Health Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts. (Ayurvedic medicine is
the traditional medicine of India.) "Gotu kola's most important use is to
bring the nervous system to such an extreme degree of refinement that the
individual can see his or her nature as unbounded and infinite — in other
words, to become enlightened," says Dr. Glaser.
Gotu kola is also used in
Ayurvedic medicine as a cure for agitation, memory loss, anxiety, insomnia,
epilepsy and hyperactivity, Dr. Glaser says.
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