About centella

Centella asiatica grows in tropical swampy areas.The stems are slender, creeping stolons, green to reddish-green in color, connecting plants to each other. It has long-stalked, green, reniform leaves with rounded apices which have smooth texture with palmately netted veins. The leaves are borne on pericladial petioles, around 2 cm. The rootstock consists of rhizomes, growing vertically down. They are creamish in color and covered with root hairs.

The flowers are pinkish to red in color, born in small, rounded bunches (umbels) near the surface of the soil. Each flower is partly enclosed in two green bracts. The hermaphrodite flowers are minute in size (less than 3 mm), with 5-6 corolla lobes per flower. Each flower bears five stamens and two styles. The fruit are densely reticulate, distinguishing it from species of Hydrocotyle which have smooth, ribbed or warty fruit.The crop matures in three months, and the whole plant, including the roots, is harvested manually.

 

Function:

(1)Regulating immunity and improving blood circulation

(2)Lowering cholesterinand and getting rid of excess fat.

(3)Protecting skin tissue, promoting wound healing, treating skin ulcer, such as intractable trauma,skin tuberculosis and lepra.

(4)Owning good therapeutic effect on venous infufficiency and varicose vein

(5)Improving sleep quality and enhancing memory ability .

(6)Skin Whitening

 

Application:

  Pharmaceutical stuff;
 *  Functional food and food additive;
 *  Cosmetics additive

 

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