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Gotu Kola
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Gotu kola - Centella asiatica (in the Umbelliferae or Parsley family) ...

Gotu Kola
Centella asiatica
MEDICINAL: Gotu Kola is and excellent mental stimulant. It is often used after mental breakdowns, and used regularly, can prevent nervous breakdown, as it is a brain cell stimulant.

or kola, tropical tree (genus Cola) of the family Sterculiaceae (sterculia family), native to Africa but now grown in other tropical regions.

Gotu kola is an outstandingly important medicinal herb that is widely used in the Orient[238] and is becoming increasingly popular in the West[254].

Gotu kola is often grown in the herb garden as it is highly regarded for it medicinal and nutritional properties.
Description
Asiatic coinwort is a small creeping herb with shovel shaped leaves emerging alternately in clusters at the stem nodes.

COLA NITIDA - Kola Nut, Goora Nut
CONOPHARYNGIA ELEGANS - Toad Tree
COUEPIA POLYANDRA - Olosapo
COUROUPITA GUIANENSIS - Cannon-ball Tree
CRABAPPLE, AMERICAN - Malus augustifolia
CRATAEGUS AZAROLUS - Azarole, Medlar ...

Cola acuminata (Cola Nut, Kola)
Dombeya cacuminum (Strawberry Snowball Tree)
Dombeya cayeuxii (Pink Ball Dombeya)
Firmiana simplex (Chinese Parasol Tree, Japanese Varnish Tree)
Fremontodendron 'California Glory' (Flannel Bush 'California Glory') ...

Nombres relacionados: Cola acuminata (similar), Cola nut (inglés), Cola vera (similar), Ghanja kola (inglés), Kola (inglés), Noz de cola (gallego y/o portugués), Nuez de cola (castellano), Sterculia acuminata (similar), Sterculiaceae (familia).

known as Indian paintbrush or Prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, northern Asia, and one species as far west as the Kola ...

The fruits sugary pulp is used as desserts, the roots for medicinal purposes and the twigs as traditional chewsticks. The reniform, reddish seeds of this species constitute a false kola, which has a taste closely resembling that of true kola.

Caffeine (formerly known as theme) is the alkaloid of tea, and is identical with that of coffee, guarana, mate and kola nut. It is closely allied to theobromine, the alkaloid of cocoa, and also to uric acid.

Once you get used to using Self Heal, a whole herbal world of opportunity begins to open to you, and many other plants can be grown and tried--chickweed, basil, gotu kola--the list is extensive.