Centella asiatica
(sen-tel′ă ā″s(h)ē-at′ĭ-kă )
( ā″z(h)ē-at′ĭ-kă)
A low-lying herb native to India and East Asia. It is used for a wide variety of medicinal purposes in Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine as a sedative, an antiasthmatic, a treatment for liver and skin diseases, and a promoter of longevity.
SYN: SEE: coinwort;
SYN: SEE: gotu kola
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Centella asiatica. In: Venes D, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. 23rd ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/742536/all/Centella_asiatica. Accessed July 22, 2019.
Centella asiatica. (2017). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary. Available from https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/742536/all/Centella_asiatica
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