Effects of Gotu Kola

Cyperus rotundus is a light-loving, moisture-loving and shade-tolerant plant. In Vietnam, the plant grows everywhere, often in clumps in the plains, midlands and highlands.

Gotu kola often grows in clumps in plains, midlands, and highlands.

Gotu kola can be harvested year round, washed, used fresh or dried.

According to traditional medicine and research documents, betel leaf grass in medical books is called wild chicken grass; it has a sweet, slightly bitter taste and cool properties.

Effects: Nourishes blood, promotes blood circulation, diuretic, detoxifies, cools the liver. Used in cases of damage, bloating, urinary incontinence, rheumatism, malaria, fever, hot liver, high blood pressure, encephalitis, meningitis, urinary tract infections, boils, etc.

Some valuable remedies from Gotu Kola

Gotu kola not only has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling the body, cooling the liver, stabilizing blood pressure, but also has many other uses such as:

- Treating high fever: Use fresh or dried gotu kola (whole body, remove flowers), can be combined with pennywort, fish mint, plantain, and cogon root (more effective). Boil and drink instead of water to help reduce fever, relieve headaches and sleep well...

- Treat mouth ulcers, pimples in the mouth, thrush: This disease is common in children and adults. The cause is due to too much heat. Use the herb alone or combine it with purslane, plantain, eclipta, and fish mint (more effective). Take a handful of each, boil it to concentrate, take the water and drink it during the day, drink it for several days until cured. When you start using it, the disease will gradually ease and disappear.

- Treats gray hair, dry, brittle hair: Few people know this effect. How to do it: Gotu kola (whole body, remove flowers), wash and chop finely, dry and roast until golden brown, bury in the ground. Use about 30-40g per day, combined with 20g of dodder seed and 20g of rehmannia glutinosa. Boil the three ingredients thoroughly, take the water and drink it all during the day. Drink continuously for a period of time. If you are a woman, you can add dried ripe mulberries to boil together for more effectiveness because it replenishes blood.

In addition, you can combine lemongrass and grapefruit peel to boil water to wash your hair, which will increase the effectiveness.

- Cool the liver, reduce heat, clear heat, treat acne: Many people often have hot liver, acne, and sweat less, use gotu kola to boil water to drink (like drinking tea). If liver function is poor, it can be combined with dandelion and artichoke to increase effectiveness.

Effect: Makes the body sweat, toxins are released through pores, the body will be healthier, acne will disappear.

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