Description of the plant:
It is a tasteless, odourless plant that thrives in and around water. It has small fan-shaped green leaves with white or light purple-to-pink or white flowers and it bears small oval fruit (fig. 1). The whole plant is used for medicinal purposes[9].
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It is native to tropical regions of Africa, Asia, Australia, and islands in the western Pacific Ocean.
Sep 28, 2021 · The plant possesses diuretic properties and is used for treating looseness of the bowels, heaving, jaundice and scabies, Hansen's ailment ( ...
These plants generally have a sprawling habit, solitary or small groups of leaves, and small numbers of greenish white or purple flowers. Most of the Centella ...
Floral Characteristics · Flowers are pink and white in fascicled umbels. · The fruits are oblong, dull brown, laterally compressed, pericarp hard, thickened and ...
Besides its potent wound healing property, a number of studies described the noteworthy protective effect of the plant against several diseases of CNS.
In the traditional system of medicine this plant extract has been used as an antioxidant, wound healing, increase cognition reduces anxiety, strengthens the ...
Generally broad and dull in the fields, they can be thick, fleshy and shining in places close to the sea. The purple flowers are very small and grouped by 2-5 ...
Centella asiatica (L.) Urb. ; Growth Form, Perennial herb with a creeping growth habit. ; Foliage, Bean-shaped leaves have a crenate leaf margin (leaf edge with ...
Centella asiatica is commonly found in marshes, wet hammocks, floodplain forests and wet disturbed sites throughout Florida (Wunderlin, 2003). It blooms in the ...