Gotu Kola is best known as a brain herb, or an herb associated with improving memory and or enhancing brain function.Gotu Kola has been used orally for muscle and joint stiffness and pain and skin afflictions. Gotu Kola has been used topically for wound healing, leprosy sores, and post-operative scarring.
Gotu Kola has been used for centuries to heighten mental function. Today, researchers are trying to determine if the herb has a role to play in improving memory, enhancing learning capabilities, and perhaps restoring some of the memory loss of Alzheimer's sufferers.
Gotu kola may also prevent a more serious condition called chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) from developing - whereby vein enlargement and loss of elasticity causes the pressure inside the veins of your legs to gradually build up.