Holistic health potential of indian pennywort (centella asiatica (l.) urban): a review
International Journal of Development Research
Holistic health potential of indian pennywort (centella asiatica (l.) urban): a review
Received 07th September, 2017; Received in revised form 24th October, 2017; Accepted 19th November, 2017; Published online 29th December, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Lalit Raj Singh and Karan Singh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper deals with focussing on multitherapeutic effects of Indian Pennywort in curing number of ailments in different healing systems. Aim of this study was to review the efficieny of plant in curing various ailments and disorders such as Chronic fever, Bone T.B., Tuberculosis, Blood purifier, Detoxificant, Urinary tract infection, Leprosy, Dermatitis, Pruritis, Hair fall, greying hairs, Rheumatic affections, Cardio tonic, Cardiac spasm, Hypertension, Asthma, Insomnia, Aging retardant, Syphilis, Epilepsy, Female hormonal disorders and Alzheimers disease. It is also used as general tonic to enhance vigour and vitality of the body. Ethnomedicinal uses of the plants help in curing various disorder/disease in human. Purity, strength and therapeutic index of the GACP plants is higher. Indian Pennywort (Centella asiatica (L.) Urban) is wonder herb and considered as one of the very important divine plant of the world. Distributed all over India but specially concentrated from Haridwar up to more than 600 m in himalayan tracts.
